A significant development in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s pardon request occurred on Wednesday when the Justice Ministry announced that the Pardon Department submitted its opinion on the request to Minister Amichai Eliyahu, bypassing Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, who requested that the transfer be delayed until she issues her own opinion.
i24NEWS reported on Tuesday that Baharav-Miara planned on meeting on Wednesday with the head of the Pardons Department in order to deliver her negative opinion regarding the prime minister’s pardon request.
It was also reported that she formulated her position without holding a preliminary meeting with the prosecutors handling the case, with the justification that “there is no need for it. This is not a pardon request.”
Minister Eliyahu stated, “From an initial review of the materials, a clear picture emerges: in complete contradiction to the Attorney General’s briefings claiming that ‘this is not a pardon request at all,’ the professional opinion explicitly determines that this is indeed a proper and lawful pardon request, requiring continued handling by the President.”
Minister Eliyahu sent a sharply worded letter to Baharav-Miara on Tuesday, demanding that she immediately transfer the file on Netanyahu’s pardon request to him.
Eliyahu wrote that he had learned the Pardons Department had already been completed and was ready to be transferred but that Baharav-Miara had instructed the Justice Ministry not to transfer it to him.
It has now become clear that the opinion was transferred despite Baharav-Miara’s position.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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This vindictive and narcissistic female animal looks and acts like anyone’s worst nightmare of the worst possible shvigger imaginable.
She has been demonstrating for years that not only does she not care about doing her job, she also doesn’t care about the rule of law or what is good for the country that she supposedly works for.
If this heap of trash was operating in the U.S. not only would she be fired without any murmur of dissent from anyone else in the justice system, but in addition she would be disbarred and be forced to find a different vocation in which she doesn’t pose a liability for the rest of mankind.
Whi gave this מכשפה all that power? She usurped powers and there is no one challenging her! Where are her parameters/boundaries recorded? Seemingly she crafted them on her own: as did Yitzhak Amit. And this the world calls “democracy?”
I’m confused. Amichai Eliyahu is the Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage, not the Justice Minister.
Why would the pardon decision be submitted to him?
Never mind, in a different article on this site, I found the following:
Levin gave up on receiving a reply from Baharav-Miara, and to prevent further delays, he transferred responsibility for the matter to Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit), who regularly handles cases in which Levin is barred from involvement.
The move is intended to preempt any potential claims that the recommendation could be invalidated due to a conflict of interest, allowing the decision-making process to proceed without unnecessary delays.