Supreme Court Chief Justice Yitzhak Amit issued the temporary order last week, saying it was meant \u201cto preserve the existing situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Levin argued in his filing that \u201cparties whom the Supreme Court disqualified from overseeing the investigation due to their involvement in the affair are taking the law into their own hands, ignoring their conflict of interest and petitioning the court to block the minister\u2019s authority to appoint external oversight. There is no need to elaborate on the severity of their conduct and the concern it raises \u2014 that the purpose of this unprecedented move is none other than delaying and thwarting the investigation and preventing the pursuit of the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Levin formally informed the Civil Service Commissioner that he had appointed Ben-Hamo as the official overseeing the probe into Tomer-Yerushalmi. Shortly after the announcement, the civil society group Democratic Watch Israel said it had petitioned the High Court to halt the appointment. Amit then issued the temporary order freezing the move, which Levin called \u201ca new peak of disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his appointment notice, Levin said Ben-Hamo would serve \u201cuntil the attorney general\u2019s bar on involvement in the matter is lifted.\u201d The High Court has ruled that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is barred only from the investigative stage. According to Levin, she may return to handling the case once that stage concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Chief Justice Yitzhak Amit issued the temporary order last week, saying it was meant \u201cto preserve…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":398816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-398815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115598265408789344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}