Until now, the Legal Adviser to the Government has stood guard over the Holy Scripture - it is the settlement of Netanyahu's conflict of interest.
Even those around her know that the provisions of the settlement are almost unenforceable.
Who knew to report on the Ulam in the Netanyahu-Levin talks?
After all, she learned about the dismissal of the three drivers from the Prime Minister's Office, who are prosecution witnesses in his trial, through the media - even though the dismissals went through all the gatekeepers in the Prime Minister's Office, and even in the non-criminal department of the State Attorney's Office.
But even if there is a kind of state witness to report, what can you do?
For a criminal investigation, the bar is not high enough, and the declaration of impeachment stands on the very shaky foundations of two incidental rulings of the High Court. The judges ruled that the Prime Minister can serve under an indictment assuming that he will comply with the settlement, but did not determine what would happen if, God forbid, he does not .
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Minister Karai, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
The newspaper's political reporter, Amir Ettinger, reveals that for the first time the ombudsman has been flexible and is allowing Netanyahu to deal with the Public Broadcasting Corporation - even though the conflict of interest settlement states that due to File 4000, which deals with an alleged bribery transaction at the Communications Ministry, he cannot deal with the ministry's affairs. Why did she approve Because there is no connection between the law and the affairs of the corporation.
In doing so, the ombudsman shows flexibility in matters and concocts the claims of hostility towards the government. It would have been easy to fortify, and certainly in this period. However, in doing so, she may have opened a door to the candy cabinet. Netanyahu recently informed the High Court that he opposes the settlement of the conflict of interest.
The reason for the permission to deal with the corporation's affairs - the lack of impact on his trial - will be used by Netanyahu as a legal argument regarding additional clauses.
She opened the candy cabinet.
Advocate Gali Beharve-Miara, photo: Gideon Markovitch
One of them, for example, is the prohibition in the arrangement to deal with the committee for appointing judges, because the appointed Supreme Court judges might hear an appeal in his trial.
The rate of cumulative conditions up to the possibility of a conflict of interest is too great: if he is convicted, if he appeals, if the "computer" blocks those judges appointed to hear the appeal.
The connection to the sentence is loose.
In fact, just as an ombudsman is appointed by a political echelon and from the moment he enters his office he is not bound to him, so is a judge, and anyway the claim of conflict of interest is not really clear.
Also, the constitutional law obliges the state to act proportionally and to always prefer "the least damaging measure".
In our case, instead of preventing the Prime Minister's involvement in the important issue of appointing judges, it is possible to remove the fear of a conflict of interest by stipulating that the judges who will be elected will not hear his appeal - if one is filed at all.
Deputy Ombudsman. Gil Limon, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
And yet, the judges have previously rejected such claims and approved the agreement as it is.
Even if Attorney General Bhitra opened an opening, the legal reform, which, as stated by Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon, will undermine the ability of the gatekeepers to maintain the proper administration of his trial - will make it difficult for Netanyahu to expand it.
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