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Sunday, March 23, 2025
Justice Min. Levin: AG’s absence from cabinet meeting viewed with ‘utmost severity’
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
After the cabinet convenes to deliberate on a motion of no-confidence in Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s spokesman releases a statement slamming the attorney general for refusing to attend the meeting.
“At the beginning of the discussion, Minister Levin said that he views the Attorney General’s absence from the meeting with utmost severity,” the spokesman says, stating that her decision to stay away serves as “further proof of the depth of contempt she harbors for the government and its members and that she has no answers to the allegations made against her.”
Ahead of the meeting, Baharav-Miara accused the government of seeking to operate above the law, without any checks on its power, and of seeking to silence the governmental legal advice system which she heads.
