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Israeli AG: Netanyahu cannot be involved in legal system overhaul

TEL AVIV: Israel’s attorney general has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he must not be involved in an overhaul to the country’s judicial system proposed by his government, saying in a letter made public on Thursday. Netanyahu’s government has made changing the legal system a centerpiece of its legislative agenda. Netanyahu is on trial for fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. “You must avoid as part of your role as prime minister involvement in initiatives related to the legal system,” Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara wrote in the letter. She said that meant Netanyahu could also not direct others to advance the plan. The letter included an opinion by Baharav-Miara’s deputy, saying the overhaul would “benefit the prime minister in terms of the administration of his trial.”

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