If the government “decides to disobey the Court’s decision it will become a government outside of the law,“ Yair Lapid told thousands of demonstrators in central Tel Aviv.
The unprecedented move to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar has deepened divisions in the country as Israel resumes its military operations in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu insisted, in a post on X, that it was up to the government to decide who headed the domestic security agency.
He reiterated that view in a video message Saturday as the Tel Aviv protest was under way.
‘Flagrant conflict of interest’
Lapid spoke at an anti-government rally where demonstrators held signs protesting the war in the Gaza Strip and calling for hostages held there to be freed.
In front of the defence ministry headquarters, Menahem Begin Street was packed from Kaplan Street to King Saul Street, an AFP photographer observed, suggesting a crowd of several tens of thousands of people, a very significant mobilization on a national scale.
The government is to meet on Sunday to begin dismissal proceedings against the attorney general, a vocal Netanyahu critic, citing “prolonged disagreements”.
A demonstration against her removal is scheduled for Sunday outside parliament, and near Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence.
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