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AG could order PM step aside over conflict of interest with legal overhaul--report (Israel-Benjamin Netanyahu)
Times Of Israel ^ | 1/24/2023 | TOI Staff

Posted on 01/20/2023 5:44:34 PM PST by Nextrush

Gali Baharav-Miara said close to requiring Netanyahu take leave of absence, for breach of rules that bar him from involvement in matter that could impact his corruption trial

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is reportedly close to ordering Benjamin Netanyahu to take a leave of absence as Prime Minister on the grounds that his government's plans to overhaul the judiciary amount to breach of conflict of interest rules that bar him from involvement in matters that might impact his ongoing criminal trial for corruption,

The Kan public broadcaster reported Friday that Baharav-Miara and he aides are closely studying a 2021 decision by Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer, who ruled that the attorney general alone has the authority to make such a call.

Channel 12 news went further, reporting that Baharav-Miara is close to making the unprecedented decision...

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel
KEYWORDS: benjaminnetanyahu

1 posted on 01/20/2023 5:44:34 PM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

I will be the first to call BS.


2 posted on 01/20/2023 5:46:39 PM PST by usurper
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To: usurper

There are “Deep State” forces in Israel that want to take out the Netanyahu government.


3 posted on 01/20/2023 5:49:23 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

Bibi should just stipulate that his corruption proceedings will proceed under the old system. Conflict resolved.


4 posted on 01/20/2023 5:52:16 PM PST by TheConservator (Beware the tyranny of the woke mob. There has never been a greater threat to liberty.)
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To: Nextrush

Same groups that are at work destroying us, over there destroying them. Some sort of suicidal cult.


5 posted on 01/20/2023 5:59:59 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
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To: Nextrush

Tell’em to pound sand, Bibi!


6 posted on 01/20/2023 7:35:14 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: Nextrush
Sounds like he is getting the Trump treatment from the Marxists. Winning elections will become more and more difficult for right-leaning pols going forward.
7 posted on 01/20/2023 10:10:40 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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To: Major Matt Mason

The corrupt judges took Bibi out of his government
last time with the Case 2000 etc. Now they want
to get what the voters won’t let them have, a left
wing PM.

Sound like Trump? Being sued by Dem AG’s.


8 posted on 01/21/2023 1:11:51 AM PST by Zenjitsuman (f)
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To: usurper

Mark Levin beat you to it.


9 posted on 01/22/2023 6:58:15 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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