Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, indicates the government could defy an interim order from the High Court keeping Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar in his position for now.
“No!” he posts on X in response to a news report on the court order.
“The government has to obey the law! An obligation of loyalty to the State of Israel and its laws (!) not to an illegal order with no authority,” he writes.
The High Court of Justice issued an interim injunction stating that Bar must remain in office until further notice while the government and the attorney general’s office try to agree on how to resolve the legal dispute over his dismissal.
The court’s decision also formalizes its proposal to the government and the attorney general to reach such an agreement and gives the sides until April 20, the day after Passover, to do so.
“The ‘creative solution’ is very simple: Ronen Bar will end his term on April 10, that’s our obligation,” Karhi writes.
“What is democratic about the absolute rule of Yitzhak Amit????” he says, referring to the Supreme Court president.
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