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Thursday, December 12, 2024
Lapid accuses Levin of trying to turn Israel into an ‘undemocratic state’
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Responding to Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s claim that the justices of Israel’s top court have turned themselves into “dictatorial rulers” who “trample on the choice of the people,” Opposition Leader Yair Lapid declares that it was Levin himself “who tried to turn Israel into an undemocratic state with his illegal coup.”
Levin, who was “one of the main people responsible for the October 7 disaster, is again breaking the law and dishonoring the Justice Ministry,” Lapid tweets.
“Instead of getting the State of Israel back on track, he is intensifying the chaos and the constitutional crisis,” he continues, adding that for over a year the court has not had a president because “Levin decided to sabotage the work of the judiciary” — something that “must stop immediately.”
Levin attacked the court after it ordered him to hold a vote to appoint a new Supreme Court president within a month.
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