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Ministerial panel votes unanimously to recommend the government fires AG Baharav-Miara
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter
A five-member ministerial committee votes unanimously to recommend to the government that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara be dismissed from office.
The committee approved the text of its resolution on Thursday night, and formally voted to adopt it in a meeting today.
The decision to fire the attorney general now passes to the cabinet, which can schedule a vote on the matter at its next meeting.
In a Friday ruling from the High Court, Judge Noam Sohlberg said that any decision by the government to fire Baharav-Miara would not come into effect immediately, in order to give the court time to review petitions against the new process for firing the attorney general which the government instituted in June.
Earlier today, Baharav-Miara filed a response to that ruling, asking the court to instead stop the process itself from continuing.
The contentious committee was chaired by Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, and also includes Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, Science and Technology Minister Gila Gamliel, and Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli.
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