Likud minister insists Netanyahu will comply with High Court ruling, isn’t seeking constitutional crisis

Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar disputes the claim that the government’s resolution yesterday amounts to a declaration of intent to ignore a ruling from the High Court of Justice, and insists that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not intend to go down the “slippery slope” of a constitutional crisis.

“As I know him, the prime minister will comply with the High Court’s decision; there won’t be a constitutional crisis here,” Zohar, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud, tells the Kan public broadcaster. “In my opinion, a constitutional crisis is the beginning of a slippery slope.”

He claims that the government resolution rejecting the High Court ruling on the operations of the Council of the Second Authority, the commercial broadcasting regulatory body, “did not create a constitutional crisis — but sought to prevent one.”

“We told the High Court that its behavior was against the law,” the Likud minister insists. “We must obey the High Court’s decisions, but we’ll say that we are on the verge of a constitutional crisis.”