Otzma Yehudit’s Ben Gvir says AG ‘should engage in self-examination’

6 March 2019, 5:59 pm

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Otzma Yehudit’s Itamar Ben Gvir says Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, who has called to bar the party’s Michael Ben Ari from running, “should engage in self-examination.”

He calls the attorney general’s position “an attempted assassination” against the political aspirations of his party, and says justice officials are trying to thwart Otzma Yehudit’s stated intention of getting a representative into the nation’s Judicial Selection Committee.

Ben Gvir thanks the Central Elections Commission for approving Ben Ari’s candidacy as well as his own, saying it “proved that it is independent and unbiased.”