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AG tells High Court: no legal obstacle to stop Netanyahu forming coalition

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Published: 1 May 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust against PM do not create grounds for judicial intervention, Mandelblit says ahead of corruption hearing next week

AG who indicted Netanyahu says no legal impediment to him forming next coalition (Times of Israel)
Charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust against PM do not constitute grounds for judicial intervention, says Avichai Mandelblit ahead of High Court hearing next week

High Court to hear petitions against Netanyahu-Gantz unity government next week (Haaretz)
Likud and Kahol Lavan call on extended panel of justices not to intervene in political matters

Up against the clock and the constitution, new coalition is far from a done deal (Times of Israel)
Nine days remain for Netanyahu and Gantz to form government. As they rush to alter Israel’s constitutional order, and new loopholes become evident, fourth election is still very possible

Likud, Blue and White, press Supreme Court to reject anti-Netanyahu petition (Israel National News)
Likud, Blue and White, demand Supreme Court reject petition opposing unity government and PM Netanyahu

Lapid ready to vote with Netanyahu to prevent Gantz becoming PM (Jerusalem Post)
‘Any time Bibi wants to stop the rotation (in the Prime Minister's Office), all he has to do is come to me and say that he wants to return the laws to how they were before, and I will say yes'

Photo: Israel Supreme Court justice Hanan Melcer (centre) and Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (right) during a hearing in 2019. Ohad Ziegenberg
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