No dissent in cabinet on bringing back Ben Gvir, PMO says

The Prime Minister’s Office says the cabinet gave unanimous approval to reinstate Itamar Ben Gvir as national security minister.

The cabinet also voted without dissent to reappoint Otzma Yehudit MK Amichai Eliyahu as heritage minister and Yitzhak Wasserlauf as Negev, Galilee and national resilience minister, the PMO says.

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara’s office said Tuesday that she had raised objections to reappointing Ben Gvir, citing unspecified legal impediments to the move.

The terse statement from the Attorney General’s Office likely referred to her concerns regarding Ben Gvir’s repeated and ongoing intervention into operational police matters which the High Court had previously told him he must refrain from, and his alleged politicization of police promotions.