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2019-12-04T22:17:39.342Z


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Against the backdrop of the indictments against Prime Minister Netanyahu, Nobel laureate, Prof. Israel Oman, attacks the legal system: "Danger to democracy"

  • Prof. Israel Oman // Photo: Uri Lenz

"I'm furious. The prosecutor's office and the presidents are taking over the state. They do what they want. What happens is a real coup. South American and Arab countries have generals' coups. Here is a coup for jurors "- says the Nobel laureate for economics, Professor Israel Oman, in an interview with" Israel Today ".

He says he fears the fate of democracy in the country: "What is happening here is already anti-democratic and negates the whole principle of separation of powers. It is, in fact, a continuation of the 1990s judicial revolution, but the legal system is more daring and goes beyond what is possible."

Professor Oman explains that Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit's latest move, which states that in the current state, only his candidate - Deputy State Prosecutor Shlomo Lamberger - may be appointed scandal: "Where does this sound? Himself as the only commentator on the law, he now also changes the law as he sees fit. " The problem, he argues, is that jurists think of themselves as lawmakers.

Speaking about the fact that Netanyahu has not reformed the judiciary throughout his tenure, Prof. Oman said: "This is his mistake. He may be afraid that if he acts against them he will be swallowed up, but that is exactly what happened anyway once his political agenda did not match theirs."

Prof. Israel Oman calls the conduct of the Judiciary Committee "junta": "Where does this sound? The judges sit on a judiciary selection committee, and they have a veto right? We and India are the only two countries in the world where this is the case."

Source: israelhayom

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