Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed a close Likud party ally as justice minister.
Amir Ohana’s appointment on Wednesday came as Netanyahu heads an interim government following the dissolution of parliament last week. The prime minister also faces a hearing before the attorney general over corruption allegations and possible indictment.
Ohana is an ardent Netanyahu backer and has voiced support for a bill to grant a seated prime minister immunity from prosecution.
It remains unclear how, if at all, Ohana’s appointment could impact the cases against the prime minister.
Netanyahu has also reportedly asked the attorney general for a second deferral of his hearing because of the snap elections called for September.
With his appointment, Ohana also becomes Israel’s first openly gay Cabinet member.
(AP)
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Yeah Netanyahu…on the eve of the toeva parade in Yerushalayim you just sent a strong message to any coalition partners that want to speak up too much about the place of Torah in Eretz HaKodesh.
Talk about a slap in the face!
Well, no wonder…two figures from “Relgious” Zionism are already rushing to express their approval.
With “leadership” like that, what can you expect?
Maybe the traditional people who vote Likud generally will just stay away from the polls, because who can deal with a PM who shows so much contempt for traditional values.
You may have sealed your demise, just when you thought you were securing it.
May you (and your wife) receive your just recompensation, both in this world and the world-to-come. Amen.
* compensation
So Sick!!
Netanyahu has broken the traditional connector with the religious!!
The prime premise for the religious coalition with Likud has been that Likud / Right, as expounded in Yad Eliyahu in 1990, were
sinners and violators l’taavon only
, while Labour and the Left were mumrim l’hach’is.
By this appointment Netanyahu has joined the l’hach’is crowd!!
So, now — for the first time ever — that there is an abominable cabinet minister, what do the “experts” say? Is our redemption still flowering? Or is it withering?