Lapid slams recommendations bill as the ‘Netanyahu law’

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid slams the so-called Recommendations Law approved earlier this afternoon by a Knesset panel, calling it the “Netanyahu Law.”

The revised bill bans police, upon wrapping up an investigation into public officials, from informing prosecutors whether there are grounds for indictment. Last-minute changes to the legislation will permit the attorney general to seek police input in the existing corruption probes into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“After Netanyahu said the law would not relate to him personally, they fought like crazy so that the law would apply to him,” Lapid says at the start of a Yesh Atid faction meeting.

“They made sure that this law will apply to the Netanyahu investigations,” he says. “It’s a law made for a single person.”