‘We can’t allow it’: Knesset speaker slams Likud MK Kisch over threat to AG

Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy castigates Likud MK Yoav Kisch over the latter’s remark that if his party wins the upcoming election, the government would fire Attorney General Gali Bahrav-Miara — or would do so if she approved the appointment of a new IDF chief of staff. Defense Minister Benny Gantz today requested permission to make the appointment, a move not normally made by a caretaker government, citing classified information that necessitates it.

“It is very severe that a lawmaker is threatening the attorney general in such a direct manner,” says Levy, of the coalition’s Yesh Atid party. “This is an unbearable situation that we can’t allow in a democracy. One can argue and disagree with positions of legal advisers, but there is a way to conduct the debate and this isn’t one of them.”

Levy urges Kisch to “take back his remark.”