Saar tried to change and also recorded achievements, but on the heaviest issues he failed to produce change
The Minister of Justice promised much, but abandoned too quickly historical reforms he promised.
It was not repealed, led by a Basic Law, but did not complete its enactment, and left its mark on scheduling a hearing for candidates for the Supreme Court.
Either way, his presence has stabilized a trauma-stricken system, and for a democracy under threat - that's a lot |
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09/06/2022
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About a year ago, when Gideon Saar was appointed Minister of Justice in the new government, I wrote here that precisely with such a government on the complicated composition, and precisely when Saar is Minister of Justice, far-reaching reforms can be led - both in the foundations of our system and government. The trial.
My appreciation and hope was a little naive.
That is, it is clear that in one year it is impossible to fill in such a long list of election promises, but the truth is that as time went on, some of the promises (not all of them, but the pretentious ones in between) seemed to move further and further away from the paper on which they were written.
Saar, I wrote here a year ago, was exactly the man who could have created the change that would win agreements in the government and the Knesset.
On the one hand, a right-wing man who is conservative in his views, on the other hand a politician who wants to preserve the justice system and protect it from those seeking to destroy it.
His record as a former Knesset member and interior minister is one of the only politicians who has managed to find legislative compromises on sensitive legal and constitutional issues, including a reform of the Supreme Court election system (Saar Law), and the arrangement he created following a High Court ruling banning mayors from serving a serious indictment.
Tried to promote change.
Assault in the Knesset (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
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However, what succeeded as an MK (from the opposition to the absurdity) and as Minister of the Interior, did not succeed when he served as Minister of Justice. In the meantime, he has succeeded in producing change. It is very easy to check the successes and failures in front of the "New Hope" website, where the election
promises
are still
engraved.
The eight-year-old prime minister passed the first and second readings and got stuck there, and Saar, who was afraid of losing the third vote last March, rejected it.
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- not at all in the direction, did not go up, and Saar seems to have placed the initiative at the bottom of his list of tasks.
Split the role of Attorney General
- This is one of the enigmas in Saar's conduct.
If at the beginning of his term he sounds determined and ready to keep this election promise, pretty soon after his election his voice on the issue is silently weakened.
In closed conversations he already sounds much less enthusiastic about the matter and much more reluctant.
Why is this an enigma in his conduct?
Because if he had found a logical split model between the role of the adviser and the role of the attorney general (duplication of roles that has no equal in the world), he would have had a good chance of finding partners for the move even among the left wing of the government.
Saar, it seems, made the calculation that there is no equal equal in king damage: the amount of energy and resources and nerves he will have to mobilize for this split - many legislative changes, government decisions, formidable organizational reform in the Justice Department, dealing with opposition advisers and retired judges. Against the initiative) - not worth the end result which will probably be much thinner than he originally planned.
The reform is currently deep-seated in the al-Din of Saleh a-Din.
The reform is deep-seated in the al-Din of Saleh a-Din.
Gideon Saar (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Reform to strengthen the rights of detainees, suspects and defendants in interrogation and trial
- here too, as in the story of the priesthood restriction, there is certainly an act of assault, but the work has not been completed, and it is very doubtful whether it will be completed by the threatening election campaign.
Saar led the enactment of Basic Law: Rights in Criminal Procedure.
A law in the status of a Basic Law that regulates for the first time the rights of suspects (and also victims of crime) was passed on first reading and has not yet been put on second and third reading.
When completed, it will become part of the constitutional enterprise in Israel;
Saar will be able to see him as a significant achievement in his work as Minister of Justice.
This, as stated, has not yet happened, and given the state of the coalition, it is doubtful whether it will happen during the storm.
Public hearing for candidates for trial in the Supreme Court
- This is without a doubt the great attrition of an assault term.
There was no need for legislation here, but rather a persuasion by the President of the Supreme Court to take them on the move.
Saar, who recognized in Hayut the desire to produce reforms in the area of transparency of the system (she does quite a bit in this matter), succeeded in turning the hearing of the Supreme Court judges before the subcommittee of the Judicial Selection Committee into a public hearing.
True, this is not the style of hearings the Senate is doing to Supreme Court justices in the United States, and it is still a move that will certainly increase the transparency of one of the most significant proceedings in Israeli democracy, especially as in recent years this procedure has become increasingly suspicious of undue motives.
Likud members can gossip to the point of losing consciousness that it is not really and it is only as if;
In practice, during all the years of Netanyahu's rule, no finger was pointed at the matter, even when Egypt ruled without a right-wing government.
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Gideon Saar (Photo: Reuven Castro)
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Basic Law of Legislation
- Assault, while the naive among us (including me) thought it was historic, established a committee to promote the enactment of Basic Law: Legislation, which means a historical series of relations between the legislature and the judiciary in Israel.
Since beyond the lofty and emotional words that accompany this issue, the controversy has actually been reduced to the number of legislators required to reverse a High Court decision, as well as the question of the majority required in the High Court to intervene in Knesset law, assuming the task.
The aforesaid assumption was naive.
The committee's deliberations were lazy, if at all, its members remained sour, offended and disappointed by Saar and the inability to conduct meetings, and Saar in closed conversations sounded less and less convincing and believing in the course, letting his listeners understand that nothing real, in the foreseeable future, came out of it.
As for the appointments in the judicial system, well Saar was very successful in appointing his candidate for the post of Attorney General.
Unlike previous justice ministers, he was transparent from the beginning, declaring that Adv. Gali Bahrav Miara is his candidate, thus making the search committee committed to him. His political career in the despicable affair of the silence fee to his housekeeper. Saar initially insisted on the appointment and was humiliated in his defense interviews. Of Adv. Raz Nazri, the veteran deputy advisor, who was one of the candidates.
As you may recall, Saar's associate, MK Zvika Hauser, prevented Monzari from even being among the candidates for the government. Saar insists that he did not have a hand or foot in this process.
One way or another, Saar successfully led the appointment of Bahav Miara - First Woman Counselor;
On the one hand a senior in the former system, and on the other hand with a perspective of a few years from the public sector.
It is too early to determine whether Rabbi Miara is a good appointment, as she has not yet passed high-profile public tests.
Statistics state that sooner or later Mega will be required to make an affair or make a decision that will be required of her, which will land on her desk.
In the video: Entrance ceremony for the position of the new speaker, Adv. Gali Bahrav-Myara (Photo: GPO)
In addition, Saar, not without difficulties, managed to lead the appointment of four Supreme Court justices, including a judge who initially nominated him as his candidate (Gila Kanfei Steinitz), as well as
a representative of the Bar Association, Adv. Yechiel Kasher, who is considered a right-winger
A minister's achievements are not measured in a single term, but Saar does not have many more months left in Saleh a-Din. As part of the rotation he will move to the Foreign Ministry.Saar was not eliminated in the Ministry of Justice.He worked, tried where it was possible to change and make a mark, but abandoned too quickly historical reforms he promised.
After all these things, it is important and worth remembering something else in the summary of Saar's first year in the Ministry of Justice: The transcript above was written from a position of pampered.
It is worth remembering that Saar arrived at the Ministry of Justice after a traumatic period experienced by the rule of law, since the Netanyahu regime sought to destroy it, mainly through the minister sent to the task, Amir Ohana.
In a country where Pindros, Ohanot, Smutrichs, and Ben Gvirim with D9s, gasoline barrels and dynamite, are just waiting for a second to allow them to burn down the club, overturn Netanyahu's trial, destroy the general prosecution and overturn the High Court's powers, Saar healed and stabilized the The system, and for democracy under threat it is quite a bit, even a lot.
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