MK Smutrich responded today (Monday) in an interview with Gali Israel radio to the death of retired Supreme Court President Miriam Naor and said of her that she is "one more president in a chain of presidents since Aharon Barak who destroyed a glorious institution."
Smutrich said he was in a dilemma regarding his treatment of Naor's death, between the desire to demonstrate a state-sponsored attitude and to pay tribute to the retired Supreme Court president and his political views on it.
"I will remember her as the one who insisted on demolishing the houses in Ofra, Amona and Netiv HaAvot," the religious Zionist chairman explained, also mentioning her 2017 decision that Supreme Court justices would be absent from a state ceremony marking settlement in Judea and Samaria.
"I will remember her as the one who disqualified the recruitment law and put us in a troll that continues to this day," Smutrich said.
"At least in her last years she will be remembered as the one who toppled one more brick in the important wall of the justice system. In short, one more president in a chain of presidents since Aaron Barak who destroyed a glorious institution."
On the other hand, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid criticized the statements of the chairman of Religious Zionism: "Smutrich's choice to defame the president of the Naor court a few minutes after her death is a new record of humiliation in public life in Israel.
He and his party will not stop until they destroy any sign of statehood and coexistence in the country. "
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