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Monday, January 24, 2022
Justice minister blasts Smotrich’s ‘inhuman’ criticism of late justice on day of her death
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Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar pans Religious Zionism chair Bezalel Smotrich for issuing a statement criticizing the late former Supreme Court chief justice Miriam Naor hours after her death.
Smotrich said he would remember Naor “as the one who insisted on demolishing houses,” referring to her rulings against illegal Israeli construction of homes on private Palestinian land.
“I was amazed by MK Smotrich’s attack on the former [Supreme Court] president just a few hours after her death and even before she was buried. It is not Jewish and it is inhuman. I do not know a judge with whom I have agreed on all rulings. But that’s exactly the point. The state foundations in Israel must be preserved,” Sa’ar says during a faction meeting of his New Hope party.
The Times of Israel Community.