After not submitting a response: This is the High Court's decision in the petition against Ben Gvir's appointment as minister

February 23, 2023   

Supreme Court Justice Yitzhak Amit today (Thursday) published his decision on the petition filed against the appointment of Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to the position of Minister of National Security. According to the decision, the case will be transferred for hearing before the panel of High Court judges as soon as possible. "It is regrettable that once again, Respondents 1 and 3 - the Prime Minister and the Legal Advisor to the Government - did not appear at the time allotted to them. "Under these circumstances, the hearing will be moved to a hearing before the panel as soon as possible," the judge's decision said. Meanwhile, the respondents must submit a response up to ten days before the scheduled hearing. On Tuesday, Kan News reported that Netanyahu has been refusing for weeks to provide his position on the petitions filed against Itamar Ben-Gvir's appointment as minister - and that this is why Legal Advisor to the Prime Minister Gali Baharav Mayara filed a request to postpone for the fifth time the state's response to these petitions, which have been pending against Ben-Gvir for several weeks. According to the petition, Ben-Gvir cannot be the Minister of National Security, unlike other positions in the government, due to the background of his convictions and statements.