The judges of the Supreme Court on Wednesday set a date for a hearing on the petition seeking to disqualify Benjamin Netanyahu from serving as Prime Minister on the grounds he violated a conflict of interest arrangement he signed.
Kan 11 News reported that the hearing was scheduled for September 12, a month before the end of the term of Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, who will chair the panel.
- The other judges in the discussion will be Uzi Fogelman and Yitzhak Amit. At the same time, the judges are seeking clarification from Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara on how she is handling the issue of Netanyahu’s conflict of interest vis-à-vis his work on the judicial reform.
Last week, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear the petition that seeks to disqualify Netanyahu, meaning the Court sees a reason for hearing the petition, and does not reject it outright.
The position of Baharav-Miara was that there is no room for declaring the Prime Minister incapacitated, and that the request of the petitioners is far-reaching and not relevant at the moment.
Source: Arutz Sheva