Ahead of the Ohana-Mandelblit meeting tomorrow with the aim of finding an alternate candidate for the State Attorney's Office, the official says that "the Minister cannot win this battle" • Evaluation: The Supreme Court will formulate a list of candidates and allow the minister to choose one for the post - Ari: "Put her gun on the table"
Attorney Orly Ben Ari-Ginsberg waived the appointment - and there is still no new proposal for the State Attorney's Office. While Justice Minister Amir Ohana and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit disagree on the appointment issue, a meeting between the two is expected to be held tomorrow to find an alternate candidate. According to a Justice Ministry official, the advisor will probably formulate a list of accepted candidates and allow the minister to choose from them. The Minister intends to review the list he will present to the Judea and Samaria Council, but it is estimated that he will not make a choice from it and may eventually nominate his own candidate.
Minister Ohana and Attorney Ben Ari // Photo: Oren Ben Hakun
"The minister cannot win this battle," a factor in the conversation with "Israel Today" estimates. "No lawyer, certainly not a senior, will not go against the stream from which he came. In the end, if the counselor decides he does not want a specific person to act as the state's attorney and assign all his weight, no attorney who should work with him will also go against the counselor and serve A tool in the hands of the Minister. "
Minister Ohana himself attacked the advisor's behavior in a 13-week interview, saying she should be examined: "Obviously there were heavy pressures on Ben Ari and they eventually matured into Orly's decision, a kind of gun on the table. I don't know what the gun is and who put it exactly "But it's very unfortunate for me that this is how the system works."
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As revealed in News 12, Attorney Ben Ari announced to Minister Ohana this past weekend that she appreciates the confidence given to her, but has been caught up in a power struggle she has and is unwilling to damage the prosecutor's office.
"After about three decades of professional and dedicated work in the Prosecutor's Office, which is so dear to me and what I believe in, is a devil in the judicial system, of which I am a part," Ben Ari wrote. "I was elected by the Secretary of Justice for the post of Deputy State Attorney, and I am confident in my ability and skills to play this role successfully.
"Trying to make my choice a political matter and present it as part of a move designed to harm the rule of law, or the discretion of the prosecutor's office - has distressed and contradicted my conduct and values ever since. The atmosphere created threatens to damage public confidence in the prosecution and erode it even further. The judiciary has another injury. "