{"id":53190,"date":"2019-12-04T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T04:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53190"},"modified":"2019-12-04T12:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T04:15:42","slug":"netanyahu-to-quit-four-ministerial-portfolios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53190","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu To Quit Four Ministerial Portfolios"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEL AVIV, Dec 4 (NNN-MA&#8217;AN) &#8211; Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is set to quit four ministerial portfolios he holds, following the indictment against him for bribery, fraud and breach of trust, Haaretz&nbsp;newspaper reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Israeli newspaper, the decision is based on the Supreme Court ruling from 1993, which stipulates that then Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, should fire a minister who was indicted, due to the severity of the charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Netanyahu currently holds the ministries of agriculture, health, social affairs and diaspora affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <em>Haaretz<\/em>, Netanyahu does not plan to quit the position of prime minister, as the court has not yet decided whether the legal precedent of 1993, applies in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court noted that it is an unprecedented issue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20191121-israel-pm-charged-with-bribery-fraud-breach-of-trust\/\">indict a sitting prime minister<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Quds Press<\/em> reported, Israeli TV, <em>Channel 13,&nbsp;as<\/em> saying that, the Supreme Court is to discuss whether Netanyahu is able to carry out his mission as prime minister, after being charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome officials in the Ministry of Justice expect Netanyahu will not be able to remain as prime minister while indicted,\u201d <em>Channel 13<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Times of Israel reported that, at least two groups were preparing to file petitions against Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both the Labour party and the Movement for Quality Government in Israel said, according to <em>the Times of Israel<\/em>, they would appeal to the High Court of Justice, to force Netanyahu to step down, with further petitions expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former head of Meretz, Tamara Zandberg, called for the formation of a committee in the Knesset, to strip Netanyahu of his immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said that, it is unreasonable that the prime minister is indicted, and there is no law that will force him to resign.&#8211; NNN-MA&#8217;AN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEL AVIV, Dec 4 (NNN-MA&#8217;AN) &#8211; Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is set to quit four ministerial portfolios he holds, following the indictment against him for bribery, fraud and breach of trust, Haaretz&nbsp;newspaper reported. According to the Israeli newspaper, the decision is based on the Supreme Court ruling from 1993, which stipulates that then Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}