Overview
- Netanyahu, in a filing Sunday via attorney Michael Rabilo, argued the Supreme Court has no authority to remove ministers and urged it not to reshape the government.
- National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir filed his own response warning that the attorney general’s bid to fire him could trigger a constitutional crisis.
- Ben-Gvir said he has not been convicted or indicted and cited a lack of Shin Bet findings against him as he denied improper interference in police work.
- The petitions stem from Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara’s March 4 legal opinion accusing Ben-Gvir of abusing his office to sway police operations and urging his dismissal.
- An expanded nine-judge Supreme Court panel is set to hear the case, the Prime Minister’s Office has condemned the attorney general’s move as undemocratic, and no ruling has been issued.