Israel debates politicization of attorney general's role

The chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, MK Simcha Rothman, excised from a draft law on the attorney general’s role a key clause that would have preserved some apolitical characters of the key position, during a raucous committee hearing on Monday. The clause stated that an attorney general would be appointed for a one-term period of six years, as is currently the case. The fixed term means that the attorney general remains in place even if a new government takes office during their tenure. But Rothman proposed instead that if a new government was dissatisfied with the serving attorney general, it could replace them within the first 100 days of its tenure. This would enable any government to remove the serving attorney general without any professional grounds or justification, a step that would politicize the role by making it dependent on the goodwill of a given administration.
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