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Minister who led Baharav-Miara ouster urges ‘immediate’ appointment of replacement
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi calls for the appointment of a stand-in for Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara “immediately” following a unanimous government vote in favor of her termination, stating that “we must not allow a governmental vacuum to be filled with mounds of unfounded legal interpretations.”
“The process I initiated about nine months ago… has been completed,” Karhi tweets, referring to a letter he wrote in November, signed by multiple other cabinet members, calling for Baharav-Miara’s ouster.
“Better late (very late) than never. If it were up to me – I would file an indictment against her for fraud and breach of trust,” he adds.
The High Court of Justice has ruled that the attorney general’s dismissal will not go into effect until after it issues a ruling on the legality of the dismissal process, which government watchdog groups and the attorney general have described as unlawful.
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