In accordance with the court order, the State Attorney's Office forwarded to the Prime Minister's defense attorneys the approvals given by the Attorney General.
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Speaker Mandelblit
Photography:
Gideon Markovich, Oren Ben Hakon
The State Attorney's Office this evening (Thursday) forwarded the Attorney General's defense attorney Benjamin Netanyahu's approvals to open investigations and investigations into the Alps cases, in accordance with the Jerusalem District Court's order.
The State Attorney's Office argued that "the requirement 'in the Basic Law: The Government' for the consent of the Adviser to the Prime Minister's interrogation can also be given orally, in meetings held by the Adviser on the subject, and the court ruled that these minutes or other records indicate the consent requirement Provided for by law. "
The State Attorney's Office also stated: "The court also ruled that the state may omit or blacken parts of these documents, insofar as it believes they constitute 'internal records' or an internal hearing, which should not be transferred. Accordingly, the agreements given by the Attorney General in each case Against the Prime Minister.
"It should be emphasized that beyond that, the Attorney General has approved many dozens of other investigative actions at the various stages of the investigations and investigations, even though the law only commands the consent to initiate proceedings."
The documents were transferred after the district court yesterday rejected the prosecution's response, which included a retrospective approval of the prosecutor to open the investigation and a request for clarification, as well as Netanyahu's defense attorneys' request for a several-day extension to respond to the indictment.