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Immediately after the decision, however, opposition party Yesh Atid and activist groups filed urgent petitions to Israel’s High Court of Justice seeking to halt the dismissal.

In response, the court issued an injunction suspending the decision and preventing the Government from appointing a substitute.

It announced it would hear further petitions against the sacking in the following 30 days.

Baharav-Miara has been at loggerheads with the Government since it took office, challenging the legality of some of Netanyahu’s decisions, most recently his attempt in May to fire the head of the Shin Bet security agency, Ronen Bar.

Bar’s agency has been conducting an investigation into illicit payments from Qatar to some of Netanyahu’s close aides, a case known in the Israeli press as “Qatargate”. His firing has been viewed as a political move.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/court-suspends-israeli-govts-sacking-of-attorney-general/GOMPEDAIJFDUFI232PH7EXHDLM/