2023-09-03 09:14:09
Last update: 03.09.2023 | 10:14
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Justice Minister Yariv Levin this morning (Sunday) demanded from the legal advisor to the government Gali Beharev Miara private representation in the petitions submitted to the High Court, following the non-convening of the committee for the selection of judges.
“Due to your extreme and oppositional positions as is usual for the government’s position, I am forced to inform you that this time too I will require independent representation,” the minister wrote, “the situation you are creating is improper – the role of the ombudsman is to represent the government and its members and not force them to need another time once for independent representation”.
Last week Levin sent a scathing letter to the ombudsman and claimed that her conduct left him “without minimal legal representation” and that she had “a fundamental violation of his rights”. He even wrote that “even by your standards”, as he put it, this is “another peak of contemptuous attitude”.
Beharve Miara replied to Levin: “Your words in relation to the individual case and in relation to the role of legal advice to the government in general do not correspond to the facts – a false impression is created according to which the legal advice to the government does not regularly and objectively promote government policy, the things are completely the opposite. The professional duty of the system of legal advice to the government is to warn before the government for moves that are against the law. This is the meaning of guarding the threshold, this is the role of the legal advisor in Israel.”
The Yesh Atid party responded to Levin’s words: “Justice Minister Yariv Levin will do everything in order not to convene the committee for appointing judges and fulfill his responsibilities as minister. Thousands of cases are piling up, citizens are being harmed, but Levin is only interested in one thing – destroying the court, making everything political and tearing it apart the Israeli society. We submitted the petition and will not agree to postpone the hearing, Levin’s exercises are a fatal injury to the legal system and the citizens of Israel.”
The differences of opinion between the two focus on the question of the use of the authority to convene the committee for the selection of judges. Beharve-Miara believes that this is a mandatory authority of the Minister of Justice, especially in view of the heavy shortage of judges. Levin, on the other hand, believes that this is an authority of authority, and in his opinion it is a unique authority given to the minister.
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