Ayelet Shaked in her farewell speech from the Knesset stings Ben Gabir/Knesset Channel
The former Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked, responded today (Thursday) to the tapes revealed by News 12 according to which she appointed Judge Eitan Orenstein to the position of president of the District Court in Tel Aviv, against her discretion, and under pressure from the chairman of the Bar Association at the time, Efi Neve.
In the recordings revealed, Justice Minister Shaked is heard saying: "Epi, I want to tell you something about Orenstein." There was no chance in the world that I would have appointed him and not Schneller after I received the material from the search committee," Efi Neve replied to her, "I know I owe you, I understood that."
In the response she published today, Shaked attributes the content of the recordings to a professional alliance forged According to her, "I created a partnership with the Bar Association, which changed the balance of power among the members of the Judge Selection Committee." won the majority. Now, the elected officials under my leadership have won a majority and the ability to implement policies. My tenure at the Ministry of Justice was different. No longer a minister of law in the title, but a minister who came to work and create change."
Shaked also explained that as a singer, she was subject to many pressures, sometimes from opposite directions. "It's not pleasant to see how sausages are made," Shaked said pictorially. "It's certainly unpleasant to hear personal recordings about the management of political moves and appointments, in any field. But that's how things work. Whoever can't stand the heat, shouldn't enter the kitchen. The judges are flesh and blood, and their conversations on these matters were also conducted in the same way. Let everyone think for themselves About personal conversations he has and how they would sound if they were public."
"Judge Schneller belonged to my political camp and political pressure was exerted on me to appoint him. On the other hand, President of the Supreme Court Miriam Naor, the judiciary and the bar association exerted pressure on me to appoint Orenstein. The legal system in its various forms overwhelmingly believed that he was the most suitable candidate to run the court The most important district," she stated.