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2023-02-02T12:11:57.064Z


Following a complaint filed against attorney David Hodak, the police will open an investigation into his remarks made at the winter conference of the Bar Association in Eilat. His statements drew applause from some of the participants, while others disowned them. Hodak was on the original list of witnesses in the Netanyahu trial


Attorney David Hudak on the legal reform: "If they force me to live in a dictatorship - I will use force" (Walla system!)

The police opened an investigation following a complaint filed against Attorney David Hodak's statements that he would be ready to "fight" if the legal revolution leads to dictatorial rule in the country. Attorney Hodak, who was included in the original list of witnesses in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial, said these things yesterday at the panel On the legal reform at the Bar Association conference in Eilat.

According to him, "If someone forces me to live in a dictatorship and I have no choice - I will not hesitate to use live fire."



"The government, in my opinion, does not understand what kind of mud it is getting into," he said at the conference.

"People are ready to fight with arms against this destructive legislative plan. So everyone is shocked, how do you say such a thing? So I say: if they drag me there, that's what I will do. I will not leave the country, and I will not live in a dictatorship. They are going to It is with all our might - and we will oppose it with all our might. Whatever happens."

He also warned that "there might be a fratricidal war here, unfortunately."



His words created a great stir at the event.

While some people in the audience applauded, others argued that a police complaint should be filed against him.

Hodak, is a lawyer dealing in commercial law, head of the law firm Gross, Kleinhandler, Hodak, Halevi, Greenberg & Co.

He has the decoration of courage for his work as an armor officer in the Yom Kippur War.

"The government, in my opinion, does not understand what mud it is getting into."

Advocate Hodak, yesterday (photo: official website, spokeswoman of the Bar Association)

Last month, a petition was circulated signed by most of Israel's leading law firms, which issued an unprecedented joint statement referring to the legal reform proposed by Justice Minister Yariv Levin.



These are 17 law firms, among which you can find: Mitar, Goldfarb Seligman, Herzog Fox Naaman, Pearl Cohen Tzedek, Gornitsky and more. The petition reads: "We, the undersigned, the largest law firms in Israel, wish to warn against damage to its strength And in the independence of the judicial system and the system of checks, balances and restraints that stand at the foundation of the democratic regime that we are so proud of, alongside the fact that the State of Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people."

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