"We call on you to use your authority as Minister of Justice to stop Lapid's move":
Following the publications according to which Prime Minister Lapid is rushing to reach an agreement on the maritime border and is considering bypassing the Knesset with the consent of the Speaker of the House of Rabbi Beharve-Miara, today the chairman of the Likud faction, MK Yariv Levin, and the chairman of the religious Zionist faction, MK Orit Struck, in an urgent appeal to the Minister of Justice Gideon Sa'ar, demanding to prevent Lapid's kidnapping if necessary.
In their letter, Levin and Strock clarify that the regulations of the government's work require that any international agreement be placed on the Knesset's table before it is brought to the government's vote, and that any decision to hide the agreement from the Knesset's eyes and prevent a public discussion of it requires, among other things, the approval of the Minister of Justice.
Levin and Strock against Sa'ar (archive), photo: Lior Mizrahi
"We call on you to prevent, by virtue of your authority as Minister of Justice, this illegal step. This is an agreement that includes the relinquishment of Israeli sovereign territory, and significant economic energy capabilities of the State of Israel. Such an agreement, it was appropriate that a transitional government that does not gain the trust of the Knesset, should not advance at all, And it is certainly appropriate that you do not advance behind the Knesset's back, a few weeks before elections" - the two wrote to the Minister of Justice, adding "you are expected to stand on the guard of democracy, to refrain from giving your consent to the concealment procedure, thereby even preventing it."
In addition, in their letter they addressed the legal adviser to the government demanding to receive her written opinion.
This, in light of the publications according to which Rabbi Miara authorized Lapid to bypass the Knesset twice - once to avoid placing the agreement on the Knesset's table before its approval by the government, and a second time to avoid ratifying the agreement in the Knesset and in a referendum, in accordance with the Referendum Basic Law of which Levin and Struck were among its initiators.
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