Committee chairman MK Ofir Katz argued that the prime minister knows how an appointment best serves the government.
Health Ministry director-general Moshe Bar Siman Tov lauded Deri in a statement released shortly after the budget passed a government vote.
The attorney-general has failed to answer the appeal because Netanyahu himself had failed to give her an explanation as to why the appointment was indeed reasonable.
Parliament okays a number of controversial laws in voting marathon
I know that the only way back to the right path is to return to our roots, our Zionist fundamentals.
Levin and Rothman: No connection to Israel's judicial reforms, which will continue on schedule.
The bill is an amendment to Basic Law: The Government. It passed in the Ministerial Legislation Committee on Sunday.
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What if the government says one thing, the court says the opposite, and the parliament rejoins that the government no longer needs to abide by what the court says?
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