Education Minister Yoav Kisch is calling on Supreme Court president Esther Hayut to condemn former state prosecutor Moshe Lador, who had harsh words a day earlier for the district court judges in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial.
On Saturday, Lador told attendees at a cultural event that judges had made an “unprecedented error” by convening attorneys in the Netanyahu case privately and telling the prosecution that its bribery charge didn’t have a good chance at standing up. He said the move, with some witnesses yet to be called, was a “hit job.”
Former State Attorney Moshe Lador attends a conference at the Knesset on December 11, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
“I expect President Hayut to condemn these harsh words against judges,” Kisch tells Army Radio. “What would happen if someone from the government came and said something like that? The country would lose its mind, you can’t have double standards.”
In fact, government rhetoric regularly traffics in accusations against the judges. The government has also pressed forward with a controversial plan to weaken the judiciary.
Visiting courts in southern Israel as part of a farewell tour, Hayut does not condemn Lador but does speak up for the bench, saying judges “do their work faithfully, professionally and fearlessly.”
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