Yariv Levin

Minister of Justice of Israel since 2022

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The Supreme Court justices know that the election is about the question of who will appoint ten Supreme Court justices in the next government — me as justice minister in Netanyahu’s government, or the justice minister in a Yair Golan-Abbas-Tibi government
The appointment of the Supreme Court president through the unlawful usurpation of my authority as chair of the committee is fundamentally flawed and illegal,
If any of the judges wishes to run the Judicial Selection Committee and set its convening dates, they are invited to take off the judge's robe, run for the Knesset, try to be elected, and, in negotiations toward the formation of a government, demand the Justice portfolio. That is what the law provides, and it applies to the judges themselves. Three judges have, with their own hands, created an unprecedented constitutional crisis, and all responsibility rests on them,
This is an illegal decisionin which the judicial authority takes over the Judicial Selection Committee, in direct contravention of the provisions of the law."
This law establishes full authority for the death penalty. From the depths of the horrific massacre we have risen — for the memory of the murdered, for their families, for those wounded in body and soul, for the captives, and for the entire nation — to fulfill our supreme moral obligation: to bring the perpetrators of this ghastly slaughter to justice."
In the end, there is a Prime Minister who is exposed to things that I am not

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