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Israeli AG warns Netanyahu broke law on conflict of interest

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By ISABEL DEBRE
Associated Press

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s attorney general has warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he violated the Supreme Court’s conflict of interest ruling, which barred him from direct involvement in his government’s divisive plans for a judicial overhaul. That’s according to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara’s letter Friday sharply criticizing his move. Netanyahu’s far-right government has barreled ahead with plans to weaken the Supreme Court despite massive protests from across Israeli society. On Thursday, just hours after his coalition passed a law that would protect the Israeli leader from being deemed unfit to rule because of his corruption trial and claims of a conflict of interest, Netanyahu defiantly pledged to proceed with the overhaul.

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