Yitzhak Zamir, the law professor who served for more than seven years as Attorney General, a tenure marked by conflicting views over his application of the law, appeared for the last time before the Knesset’s House Committee on official business Tuesday. It turned
Zamir will be replaced Wednesday by Tel Aviv District Court Judge Yosef Harish who was named by the Cabinet Sunday to succeed him. Although Zamir had announced several months ago that he intended to resign, the Labor
Zamir had made clear his determination to prosecute a “senior official” alleged to have obstructed justice in the case of the unexplained deaths of two Arab terrorists while in custody of Israeli security agents in April, 1984. The
A majority of the Cabinet opposed the probe on security grounds, especially the police investigation of Shalom that Zamir had ordered. The chief of Shabak is above the police and responsible
ZAMIR CHARACTERIZES CASE
Zamir had characterized the case as a confrontation between the rule or and those who
ZAMIR’S FINAL ACT
But on Tuesday, his Knesset opponents couched their criticism in humorous terms and his
Zamir appeared before the House Committee to urge it to waive the parliamentary immunity of MK Charlie Biton of the Hadash Communist Party so that he could stand trial on charges of stealing milk bottles from a
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