After the Storm: Benjamin Netanyahu Netanyahu Decided - Yehuda Cohen Is His Candidate for the Position of Acting State Commissioner

The Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Eden Bar-Tal, refused the Prime Minister's proposal to be appointed as the Acting Commissioner, in light of the High Court ruling that the permanent Commissioner must be elected through a regulated process. The High Court judges ruled about two weeks ago: "There is no place for a practice whereby the political echelon changes the appointment mechanism at will." Government: High Court acts …

Netanyahu needs a new commissioner to appoint the head of the Shin Bet, so he turned to his office's legal advisor, not the attorney general, to appoint Yehuda Cohen, the director general of the Chief Rabbinate, as deputy commissioner; due to the urgency of the matter, he requested a response within 24 hours.