Levin refuses cooperation with Supreme Court president

After a five -hour session, the Judicial Selection Committee chose Yitzhak Amait, who was the Chargé d’Affairs of the President of the Supreme Court, a permanent president of the court. The Minister of Justice Yarif Levin, who heads the committee, the members of the committee, the Minister of Settlements and National Missions, Ortt Stock, and a member of the Knesset Yitzhak Krohzer (Autasma Judait), boycotted the session because of their opposition to appointment. Those who voted for the benefit of the appointment are the judge, the type of Solberg, and the judge Dafni Barack Erez, representative of the Israeli Lawyer Syndicate. Unit like manovic and lawyer. Muhammad Naamnah, and the opposition actress Karen Karen Al -Harar (Yish Atid). Sohlberg was appointed Vice -President of the Court.

In response to the vote, Levin said: “I do not acknowledge the honor of the judge, Yaqhaq, Amait as President of the Supreme Court, and the procedures according to which he was” elected “defective and illegal at all. Levin said he would not cooperate with Amait, which means that high -level appointments will not be made in the legal system, which requires the agreement between the two. In fact, Levin refused to cooperate with Amait since he became a prosecutor for the Supreme Court on the basis of the seniority system after the retirement of former president, Esther Hayut. This has left many vacant judicial positions.

“The choice of a president of the Supreme Court while clouding a dense cloud on the behavior of the candidate in several cases, among other things, claims that he apparently acted during conflict of interests,” Levin, Citrock and Carrezer said in a statement. With regard to the infringements of construction in his home, amid conflicting responses to the allegations raised, and without the basic commitment to conduct a professional and objective investigation into these allegations, is a moral violation, which contradicts all the rules of sound management. And its smell is strong, selective implementation. “

President Herzog welcomed the appointment, saying: “I congratulate the judge, Ama, on his choice for the position of President of the Supreme Court. The legal system in general and the Supreme Court in particular are a decisive element in our democratic fabric and in the protection of human rights.” The rights of the citizen must protect it from every side, and I think that we should now go ahead and put the dispute that has arisen in the past few weeks about the process of selecting the President of the Supreme Court. We must look forward, reduce the flames of the conflict, and aspire to reach understandings as much as possible. .

In September 2024, the Supreme Court, in its capacity as the Supreme Court of Justice, ordered Levin to conduct a vote on the Judges Selection Committee, after Levin refrained from this for more than a year to prevent the appointment of Amait. The court saw that Levin was acting illegally, while Levin claimed that the ruling was illegal and represented a “hostile seizure of the Judicial Selection Committee.” Yesterday was the deadline set by the court to vote in the committee.

Last week, Levin asked the Supreme Court of Justice to postpone the vote, on the basis that an investigation should be held in press and media reports that he said raised doubts that she worked as a judge while there is conflict of interests. Reports also reported violations of his home planning systems in Mifasserit Tsion. Amit denied that he had deliberately acted during conflicts in interests, and he explained that building violations did not appear until after he bought the house, and that it had been in doing forty years ago without taking any measures, and that he had taken steps to organize the building permit. The Public Prosecutor and Head of the Israeli Police Investigation Department stated that there is no suspicion of criminal behavior. The court refused to request Levin.

Posted by Globes, ISrael Business News – en.globes.co.il – on January 27, 2025.

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