Knesset Constitution Committee chair MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism) is dividing the bill to split the Attorney General's role, according to a report late Sunday. The move comes as the committee prepares the legislation for its second and third readings.
Constitution Committee chair MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism) is splitting the bill to split the Attorney General's role into separate components, according to a report late Sunday. The move prepares the legislation for its second and third readings in the Knesset plenum, as the committee advances the revised version.
The development continues a process The Zioneer has tracked across multiple reports. On Saturday July 4, at 22:19 Jerusalem, the desk reported in three successive versions that Rothman had split the bill, citing a short window before expected Knesset dissolution. The initial report said the government's separate representation in the High Court would be retained; a second version added the ability to reject the Attorney General's legal opinions; a third — published at 23:05 — confirmed the same retained clauses: separate government representation in the High Court, the ability to reject the Attorney General's legal opinions, and increased ministerial oversight. The current step — officially splitting the bill into distinct legal components — is the next procedural phase.
As The Zioneer reported on Tuesday June 30, Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon was expelled from a committee hearing after a heated exchange with Rothman; the same day, senior Justice Ministry deputies briefed the committee on the bill's implications at the Attorney General's request. The report does not specify which clauses are now separated into distinct bills, or the exact legislative path ahead.
What remains open: The precise content of the split — which clauses are separated into distinct bills — is not yet detailed in the report.
4 developments
- ConfirmedConstitution Committee chair Rothman expels deputy AG Gil Limon from hearing on AG split bill
- StrongKnesset Constitution Committee begins marathon debate on Attorney General split bill
- DevelopingTop Justice Ministry deputies to address Constitution Committee on AG split bill impact
- StrongMK Pindrus calls to split Attorney General role, claims power used to imprison Haredim
Source and signal
- Internal intake