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Sunday, December 20, 2015
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Sunday, December 20, 2015
Panel gives Mandelblit nod as new attorney general
Avichai Mandelblit has been named as the single candidate recommended by a vetting board to become Israel’s next attorney general.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, cabinet sercretary Avichai Mandelblit and Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein (left to right) at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 2014. (Photo credit: Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)
Mandelblit, a former military advocate general who now serves as cabinet secretary for Netanyahu, is reported to gain the vote of everyone on the panel but Supreme Court Justice Asher Grunis.
The panel says in a statement that the decision to recommend only Mandelblit came after interviewing candidates and holding 14 meetings on the matter.
Current Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein is slated to leave his post in January.
