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Lapid says Justice Minister Levin should resign over call for revival of contentious judicial overhaul
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. 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"
Responding to Yariv Levin’s call for the revival of the government’s shelved judicial overhaul, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid calls on the justice minister to resign, warning that his proposed legislative program would destroy Israeli democracy.
Levin “should go home because of his huge part in the failure of October 7 and not talk about legal ‘reform,’” Lapid declares.
“He needs to go home along with this whole irresponsible government that brought upon us the greatest disaster in the history of the State of Israel. We will not allow him to turn the State of Israel into a non-democratic state,” Lapid says.
Following the firing of flares at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in Caesarea on Saturday evening, Levin railed against what he described as selective law enforcement and insisted that “the time has come to lend full support to rehabilitating the justice and law enforcement systems, and to put an end to anarchy, chaos, insubordination and attempts to harm the prime minister.”
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