Moshe Nissim, a member of the Mandelblit nomination committee who served as Minister of Justice: "We did not hear the contents of the tape nor was it brought to our attention that it exists" "As glamorous:" to consider the continuation of employment

Former Likud Minister of Justice Moshe Nissim, and who was part of a finding committee that approved Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit's appointment, said that if the recordings known today about the Harpaz case were brought to the committee, Mandelblit's appointment may not have been approved. "Recordings today can reveal difficult phenomena that you can't believe a legal counsel would do," Nissim said in an interview with Israel Today.

The Harpaz affair - the end // Photo: Paz Bar

"As much as there is a tape in which there is a serious problem - it cannot be ignored. He should have brought it to the committee. At the time, we did not know what is known today about Mandelblit. Maybe if the tape in question had come to us before then we would have thought otherwise. Having this issue. "

Did you hear the recordings but didn't understand the meaning or didn't hear everything? For example, what did Ayala Hasson reveal?

"We did not have this tape, nor did we know that there was such a tape. We had the fact that the Supreme Court decided to close the case. Some claim was made about Ashkenazi, but Attorney General Weinstein closed the case. This issue was not at its full weight at the time of the nomination hearing. " 

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How did you relate to the former Supreme

Court Justice Weinstein who told the Prime Minister that Mendelblit's term as prime minister should be considered following the Harpaz affair? Did you not seek clarification or what he relied on? "The main thing is in terms of the criminal side. There was no evidence to prosecute him. Did not address the value side at the time. Since there was no place to bring him to trial, this issue did not stand with the weight he currently has. I can't say how I would act, because in order to know how to act and vote, I have to know the facts, including the full content of the tape. If we had a tape and we saw the content - I would look at the content and consider whether it is appropriate or inappropriate to enumerate it. The thing is, not only do we not have the tapes, but refuse to discover the tape and reveal it even today. " 

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However, once the appointment is approved, the only body that can fire a government attorney is the government itself. Such a possibility seems far beyond the shadow of the unity government today. But even if it fires the court - it is estimated that the move will be rejected outright by the High Court. "Physically, legally, the government can, but the government will not do it for nothing. It can only do this if it can find a clear public justification for making a move that has hardly happened in the State of Israel," explains Nissim. "The man was appointed because there was nothing so serious about the committee that he had to prevent his appointment. This is a fact. He has been chairman for many years. If there is a tape and suppose it is published, then it all depends on the severity of things. If things find bad - he can go on. If things are really awful and a public opinion is formed that is unacceptable, then whoever has to decide on this is not our commission that has long ended its job, it is the government. " 

Coalition Chairman MK Mickey Zohar said following the remarks that Mendelblit's continued employment as Attorney General should be considered. "Former Justice Minister Moshe Nissim's disturbing remarks have been red-lighted regarding the appointment of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit," Zohar said. "In the light of his grave remarks, Mendelblit's continued employment as the attorney general of the government must be reconsidered."