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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Yossi Fuchs

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting. (Maayan Toaf / GPO, undated photo)
August 11, 2024, 5:06 pm
Despite AG’s dissent, cabinet okays plan for PM to choose civil service commissioner
Netanyahu defends plan, says bureaucrats don’t ‘know better than the government’; watchdog warns move ‘threatens the independence and professionalism of the civil service’
By Sam Sokol
Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs at a hearing on military service for ultra-Orthodox men, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, June 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 8, 2024, 1:11 am
AG’s office accuses cabinet secretary of issuing unauthorized government legal briefs
Deputy attorney general says Yossi Fuchs intervened in IDF’s enlistment of Haredi students; PM’s office hits back at AG for saying important cabinet decisions are adopted unlawfully
By Jeremy Sharon
Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs at a hearing on military service for ultra-Orthodox men, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, June 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 7, 2024, 8:13 pm
Cabinet secretary: ‘Time not yet ripe’ to investigate state’s handling of Gaza war
Yossi Fuchs pushes back against AG’s imploring resistant PM to form state commission of inquiry in response to ICC, ICJ cases; Netanyahu said to be seeking alternatives in Knesset
By ToI Staff
Former MK Shai Hermesh at a committee meeting in Knesset on November 14, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 1, 2024, 7:25 pm
After criticism, PM’s aide says bereaved father will read prayer at state ceremony
Cabinet secretary denies reports that Netanyahu barred Shai Hermesh, whose son was murdered on Oct. 7, from taking part in Jerusalem Day event over anti-government column he wrote
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jews outside an army recruitment office in Jerusalem, March 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 9, 2024, 7:08 pm
Government may submit Haredi draft proposal to cabinet next week
Liberman calls on Gantz and Eisenkot to withdraw from coalition if government promotes legislation intended to prevent enlistment of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men near a sign reading 'army recruitment office' during a protest against the drafting of Haredim to the military, in Jerusalem, May 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 2, 2024, 10:30 pm
Government accuses AG of ‘administrative coup’ amid mutual barbs over Haredi draft
Cabinet secretary writes angry letter after AG’s Office said government illegitimately okayed private counsel for its agencies in High Court case to ensure yeshiva funding
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at Hakirya base in Tel Aviv on January 7, 2024. (Yariv Katz/POOL)
February 11, 2024, 4:58 pm
AG concerned procedural shortcuts being used to pass illegal cabinet resolutions
Ministers have been voting on legally problematic additions to resolutions in an expedited process without the necessary legal evaluation, writes Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon
By Jeremy Sharon
File: Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked together with Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, former finance minister Moshe Kahlon, and other members of the Israeli Judicial Selection Committee at a meeting of the committee in the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem, February 22, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90/File)
August 4, 2023, 6:47 am
PM aide: We’ll remake the Judicial Selection Committee, shelve rest of overhaul
Cabinet secretary: Coalition will seek opposition agreement on main bill in the judicial remake; if no deal, will politicize entire panel, with each bloc getting half the delegates
By ToI Staff
Students study at the Kamenitz Yeshiva in Jerusalem on July 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 3, 2023, 2:46 am
PM aide: Gov’t conscription bill to lower age of exemption for Haredim from 26 to 21
Plan revealed by cabinet secretary goes even further than recent government decision that said coalition would lower exemption age to 23
By Canaan Lidor
Leader of the Opposition and Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid speaks during a press conference in the Knesset, June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 14, 2023, 10:58 pm
Lapid, Gantz freeze overhaul negotiations over ‘PM’s capitulation to extremists’
Opposition leaders say they demand functioning judge selection panel if talks are to continue; Netanyahu accuses them of looking for an excuse to halt the process
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A meeting of the Judicial Selection Committee at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem on February 22, 2017, with justice minister Ayelet Shaked, chief justice Miriam Naor, finance minister Moshe Kahlon and members of the committee (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 15, 2023, 3:22 pm
Knesset to elect Judicial Selection Committee MKs but Levin unlikely to convene panel
With no agreement yet over judicial overhaul, justice minister will almost certainly not convene the committee despite the pending retirement of Supreme Court President Hayut
By Jeremy Sharon
Miri Regev and Moshe Ben Zaken, right, at the Likud party headquarters on March 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 8, 2023, 2:10 pm
Amid AG pushback, cabinet delays appointment of new Transportation Ministry chief
Legal officials say there’s obstacle to approving appointment of Miri Regev confidant; former Levin adviser with no legal qualifications okayed as Justice Ministry director general
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Director General of the Prime Minister's Office Yossi Shelley, and Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law; Courtesy)
December 29, 2022, 10:28 pm
Netanyahu taps Yossi Shelley as PMO director, Yossi Fuchs as cabinet secretary
Shelley served as ambassador to Brazil in 2017-2021, was mocked for altering photo of lobster during meal with Bolsonaro; US-born Fuchs called Netanyahu trial ‘made-up’
By ToI Staff
Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich, seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a welcoming ceremony for his appointment, held at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 12, 2018, 10:04 pm
Supreme Court rejects petition to silence police in Netanyahu probes
‘No reason to interfere,’ says ruling, paving way for investigators to publicize indictment recommendations, after year-long graft probes into suspicions against PM
By Raoul Wootliff
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks during a ceremony of the Israel Bar Association's in Tel Aviv, January 31, 2018. (Flash90)
February 11, 2018, 8:35 pm
AG orders police to wait with Netanyahu investigation conclusions
Mandelblit instructs investigators not to announce findings until High Court hears petition against their publication
By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff
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