Justice Minister Yariv Levin declines to sign the official announcement of the appointment of Justice Isaac Amit as the new president of the Supreme Court in the state gazette, with the director of the Israel Courts Administration, Judge Tzachi Uziel, signing instead.
Usually it would be Levin, as justice minister, who signs such announcements in the gazette, the official register of formal state processes, but he has vowed to boycott Amit as president of the Supreme Court in protest at how the court itself, sitting as the High Court of Justice, ordered him to hold a vote for a new president after he refused to do so for over a year.
Levin will boycott Amit’s swearing-in ceremony next week at the President’s Residence, while Hebrew media has reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will also not attend the event.
It would be the first time in Israeli history that a sitting premier fails to attend the swearing-in of a chief justice.
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