Meretz leader calls on Kahlon to quit over court-hobbling bill

Meretz party chair Tamar Zandberg — citing a campaign being led by right-wing Im Tirtzu group against Moshe Kahlon for his opposition to the bill curtailing the powers of the Supreme Court — calls on Kahlon to take his Kulanu party out of the coalition and bring about new elections.

“I said he must resign during the last session of the Knesset over his support for the bill to help Netanyahu save himself from investigations, and now I call on him to resign because he opposes this bill and cannot claim to be protecting the rule of law while staying in the government,” she says at the opening of her weekly faction meeting in the Knesset.

Kahlon has vowed to vote against the bill in the Knesset.

Zandberg says she will not allow the proposal to pass. “In the Knesset, in the street, in the public squares, we will stand up to oppose it,” she says.

— Raoul Wootliff