""The Supreme Court is a branch of Meretz": Magal and Ben clash over Shikli's disqualification

September 29, 2022   

Rosh Hashanah has passed, and Ben Caspit and Yinon Magal have returned to their natural place and once again opened up with arguments and polemics on their show on 103FM. At the beginning of the talk, Caspit decided to expose the audience to a passage that his friend once said on the microphone about MK Amichai Shikli, after the chairman of the Central Elections Committee decided to disqualify him from running for the Knesset. "What you had to do to understand that Shikli's story is far from over was to read the law," Ben claimed. "The law states that a MK who has been declared retired will not be able to run on any existing list, unless he retired recently. Judge Amit's decision is completely logical, although not final." He added: "Idit Silman is armor on steroids, and therefore it is not over. When the High Court is in your favor, you are in applause, when it is against you - you are in anarchy. The Supreme Court's decisions are acceptable to me, I can criticize them." Yinon replied: "Regarding Silman, you were wrong, regarding Shikli it is still unclear. When they said that the Supreme Court is a branch of Meretz, they were talking about people like Judge Amit. On what basis does he make such decisions? In any case, we see that Bennett is not in the Knesset, as I said, and Ayelet and Abir Kara will not be in the Knesset. We saw how you protect the country, we saw what you did here.". Listen.