Avichai Mandelblit v. Benjamin Netanyahu:
Tonight (Tuesday), News 12 published the contents of closed talks conducted by the Attorney General, in which he attacked the former prime minister in an unprecedented manner.
During the talks, Mandelblit claimed that Netanyahu endangered democracy and detailed how he planned to seize power over the judiciary and dismantle the prosecution from within: "I saw a transformation into a place of personal loyalty, which is a danger to democracy.
Mandelblit claimed that Netanyahu acted to appoint people who were loyal to him personally and not to the public.
"A free press that tried to change her DNA ... I think people did not see it. It was very sophisticated."
He said the program began with the appointment of legal advisers to government ministries and continued in an attempt to take over the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court:
All these places - it can just crumble us from within. "
Nir Hefetz's testimony renewed: "File 4000 - only because Netanyahu was prime minister" // Photo: Yoni Rickner
The adviser claimed that after the decision to file an indictment against Netanyahu, a war broke out over the legitimacy of the ombudsman: "The whole situation of appointing a state attorney is very bad for the position, but I had nothing to do.
"The other option is to get our own people (of Netanyahu - 11) from within. There is nothing worse than that ... I did not dream that we would reach this place, we also have to worry about the future because it can repeat itself. There is no guarantee of democracy."
Netanyahu's aides said in response that "these are messianic statements by a government official who decided to replace the people - no less. "He would have come into being if the prime minister had not been Netanyahu. It is worth reminding Mandelblit that in a democracy the people elect their leaders, and not the attorney general."
Netanyahu, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
MK Shimon Qarai (Likud) added that "Mandelblit, who has been undermining the foundations of Israeli democracy for many years, is trying to divert the fire from the crimes he and Shai Nitzan committed in the all-time corrupt legal coup.
The Mandelblit period is the bad seven years of our Jewish and democratic state.
For his personal good and the release of the pressure of the hand holding his throat, he turned us into a legal dictatorship and endangered the only state of the Jewish people.
We will take care of dismantling this corrupt system, we will send the members of the rule of law gang to hell and put together a healthy and clean system for the glory of the State of Israel. "
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