nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200512-133607-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200512s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200512-133607-0 doi eng 342 23 Hostovsky Brandes, Tamar Author aut Is it the Court’s Role to Save a Country from Itself? On the Israeli Supreme Court’s Rejection of the Petitions Against Netanyahu Hostovsky Brandes, Tamar Verfassungsblog 2020-05-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On May 6, 2020, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected eight petitions against PM Netanyahu’s rule as PM and against the unity agreement between Netanyahu and his former contender, Benny Gantz (“the Unity Agreement”). The unanimous decision was delivered by an expanded panel of eleven judges, who emphasized that despite the severity of the allegations against Netanyahu, there was no basis, in Israeli law, for disqualifying him. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Supreme Court Unity Agreement Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/is-it-the-courts-role-to-save-a-country-from-itself/ raw object