Israel’s attorney general warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he has violated the country’s law on conflict of interest, barring him from direct involvement in his government’s plans for a judicial overhaul while standing trial for corruption.
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara thoroughly disagreed, sharply rebuking him in a letter Friday for breaking a conflict of interest agreement that had allowed him to continue leading the country while charged with corruption, bribery and breach of trust. The deal Netanyahu wasor key judicial appointments that could affect his ongoing trial.
The contentious law that makes it harder to remove Netanyahu from office, passed late Wednesday by a slim majority of 61 in the 120-seat parliament, does not undo the court’s earlier conflict of interest ruling, Baharav-Miara said.
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