This was one of the crucial discussions leading up to the passage of the budget. Finance Ministry officials met with senior Attorney General Gali Bahar-Miara to review the details ahead of the legislation in the Knesset. Omer Rahamim, senior advisor and confidant of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, also attended the discussion. After he passed the entrance inspection and arrived at the conference room, where the meeting was supposed to take place, the attorney general arrested him and claimed that he could not enter the hearing. The argument was that Rahamim did not appear on the list of invitees, and beyond that he was a "political echelon."
As expected, the event ended with the Finance Minister threatening that if the adviser did not enter, the discussion would be blown up, but the story about Smotrich's advisor is the essence of the story about the legal adviser, and the story is confusion.
Bezalel Smotrich, Photo: Alex Kolomoisky
Years of too much power have blurred the boundaries, powers and responsibilities of the Israeli government. Years in which attorneys general have become the last word and policymakers have confused them. Who presides over the meetings and who is a guest at them, who decides and who gives an opinion, who is elected and who advises.
In the powerful legal climate of recent years, attorneys general are confused and mistakenly think that they are the authority, they are the power, they are the opinion holders and they are the deciders. The elected echelon outside the room, the advisory echelon became the deciding echelon.
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The Attorney General's confusion represents the spirit of the times. Good becomes evil, evil becomes good, negative is positive, light is darkness, and darkness is light. Road blockers against whom Attorney General Meni Mazuz previously demanded an offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison for "endangering human life on a transportation route" are not only not arrested until the end of the proceedings and receive an indictment, but appear in the studios as heroes and direct in front of the cameras the execution of the following road blocking offenses.
Smotrich before voting for the Judicial Selection Committee: "We want to legislate by consensus, but if the opposition blows up the talks, we will legislate independently"
The reserve refuseniks, who in the past were denounced from society for one of the shameful and dangerous phenomena in Israeli society, now receive a majority of backing and continue to release threatening letters instead of receiving letters about the end of their military service.
An IDF colonel with an illustrious record of assaults, fighting, operations and medals of heroism is accused of religion and retires from the IDF, a police chief gives a political speech while in uniform and receives applause.
The same applies to the fact that a legal adviser to the government, appointed in a previous government by an opposition opponent, continues to serve as usual. Does anyone think that a person appointed to a senior and influential position during the Trump administration in the United States would have continued to serve during the Biden administration? Only in Israel is everything confused, and confusion is paid for.
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