Legal Affairs
The prime minister’s plane flew over U.S. military bases in case he had to make an emergency landing for health reasons.
The court rejected Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara’s demand for a ban on the premier interviewing a replacement for Ronen Bar.
The election of delegates to the panel for appointing and dismissing the AG is the next step toward a final Cabinet vote on Baharav-Miara’s removal.
Gali Baharav-Miara did not attend the Cabinet session where ministers discussed the 800-page file detailing the government’s complaints.
The prime minister and his government’s top jurist denied each other’s authority amid an escalating political fight during wartime.
The move, requested by Norway, follows Knesset’s outlawing of UNRWA.
“Antisemitism thrives in loopholes. Congress has the power and the obligation to close them,” Adela Cojab, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told the committee.
Helyeh Doutaghi was placed on administrative leave, according to Alden Ferro, a spokesman for the university in New Haven, Conn.
Gali Baharav-Miara has spared “no effort to thwart the will of the voter,” the Israeli justice minister charged.
“For too long, the Lebanese people were denied a governing body that could unite the country and rebuild institutions,” said the U.S. State Department.
In addition to hundreds who held an Israeli passport before the massacre, at least dozens of their descendants have since been allowed to enter.
“I think it is a completely absurd idea that an Israeli prime minister cannot visit the Federal Republic of Germany,” said Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s next prime minister.
