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The government is expected to approve tomorrow (Sunday) at its weekly meeting the appointment of retired Chief Justice Uri Shom as chairman of the Committee for Senior Appointments in the Civil Service. Shom, who currently serves as the ombudsman for judges, will be appointed for a period of 8 years and is expected to take office in early May.
The Committee for Senior Appointments It is the committee that examines candidates for seven senior positions: the Chief of Staff, the Commissioner, the head of the Mossad, the head of the Shin Bet, the Shin Bet Commissioner, the Governor of the Bank of Israel, and the Deputy Governor. the state and two public representatives. The commission's role is to examine mainly aspects of moral purity and whether there were defects in the appointment, and it usually tends to approve the appointments that are brought before it. The
retired judge they will be appointed in the place of retired Chief Justice Eliakim Rubinstein, who served as interim chairman since August 2022 following his death of the permanent chairman, retired judge Eliezer Goldberg. The other members of the committee are Civil Service Commissioner Daniel Hershkowitz, Prof. Talia Einhorn and Moshe Teri.
Retired Chief Justice Uri Shoham/Reuven Castro
Right-wing organizations demand that the appointment be revoked
The religious Zionist ministers announced that they intend to vote against the appointment of the retired Uri judge who are in the government tomorrow.
Sources in the party say that they oppose the eight-year appointment period, as well as the very existence of the mechanism in which the approval of a retired supreme judge is required for government appointments.
The Shas are also expected to oppose the appointment in light of their history with Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, and his attempts to terminate Yosef's tenure following his statements and conduct. Earlier this evening
, a number of right-wing organizations sent a letter to the Prime
Minister and ministers demanding that the appointment be revoked.
The Betselmo organization, if you will, and the movement for governance and democracy, stated that in his role as commissioner of public acceptance of judges, they "regularly defended and praised his fellow judges while adopting their versions without the minimal checks required to fulfill his duties, even though it was proven that they lied to the public and lied to him as well."
It is further claimed that they "chose to behave differently in front of Rabbi Yosef in his hat as a judge and in front of President Hayut when both expressed themselves in a similar manner (without referring to the content of the words) in a way that casts a heavy shadow on his duty to act in an impartial and impartial manner". The letter claims that the appointment of a controversial person , "whose tenure was accompanied by failures and deficiencies in the fulfillment of his vital role, will severely damage the public service in general and the appointments of senior officials in the most sensitive positions in particular."
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