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Dec. 29, 2020
Along with his official consultations on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s criminal cases, Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit convened a forum of top legal scholars with whom he discussed the cases – without informing the Justice Ministry or the State Prosecutor’s Office.
The participants at the meetings, which were not held in the Attorney General’s Office, were asked to keep them confidential. The group was convened in 2019, prior to Mendelblit s decision to indict the prime minister, which was formally announced in November of that year.
“I was told Mendelblit is in a bit of a bind – he plans to go for an indictment but doesn’t sufficiently trust his people on the macro questions. I saw it as a mission to help him,” one member of the group said.