Man forcibly removed from High Court hearing on Shin Bet chief after yelling at chief justice

A man is forcibly removed from the High Court hearing for petitions against the attorney general’s ban on the prime minister nominating the next Shin Bet chief, after he shouted at court president Isaac Amit.

Amit had warned at the beginning of the hearing that anyone interrupting the proceedings, as has happened during several recent hearings on fraught issues, would be removed from the court.

Shouts of “shame” are also made by members of the audience in the courtroom, although the judges are currently not present since they are holding a closed-door session to receive an update on the status of the Qatargate investigation.

The man yelled at Amit as the justice left the room. It is unclear what he said.

A petition to the court requests that it overrule Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara’s determination that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot nominate the next Shin Bet chief due to what she said was his conflict of interest over the Qatargate and leaked documents investigations being conducted by the Shin Bet and the police into the prime minister’s close aides.