Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is taking flak for comments she made earlier in the day bashing the High Court for all but striking down the government’s deal with an international consortium seeking to extract natural gas from offshore fields.
Former justice minister and current Zionist Union number 2 Tzipi Livni accuses Shaked of severely harming the justice system with her statement.
“Shaked drew a sword and plunged it into the court,” Livni says at a legal conference. “The sword was not drawn because of the decision on the gas, but because the High Court continues to protect its values and its independence.”
On Facebook, Shaked says that those who claim to want to defend democracy want to shut her up, which itself is undemocratic.
Earlier, former Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich called for Netanyahu to fire Shaked over the comments.
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