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Monday, February 13, 2023
Netanyahu said to ask AG for permission to address Herzog’s compromise proposals; is rebuffed
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lawyers have approached Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, asking for permission for the premier to make public statements about the judicial overhaul plan, Hebrew media reports, adding that the request was rebuffed after several hours of discussion.
Netanyahu is bound by a conflict of interest agreement that the attorney general has said bars him from dealing in any way with the legal shakeup, since elements of it could directly impact the ongoing corruption trial against him down the road.
Channel 12 news cites sources in Netanyahu’s Likud party assessing that enabling the prime minister to publicly respond to and deal with President Isaac Herzog’s compromise proposal, issued yesterday, is necessary for that initiative to succeed.
The Times of Israel Community.