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Report: PM’s chief of staff summoned to hearing at Civil Service Commission as it seeks to suspend him
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The Prime Minister's Office's Chief of Staff Tzachi Braverman, seen in the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 11, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, has been summoned to a hearing at the Civil Service Commission, which is pursuing disciplinary measures against him, Channel 13 reports.
Braverman is the subject of an ongoing police investigation due to suspicion that he tried to obstruct a probe into the leak of classified documents from the Prime Minister’s Office to German tabloid Bild.
According to Channel 13, the Civil Service Commission is seeking to suspend Braverman for six months.
Should the suspension move ahead, Channel 13 says Braverman will be unable to take up his post as the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, which he was tapped for back in September.
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