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fter three days of non-
stop uproar, Israel's new-
ly appointed attorney
general, Ronni Bar-On,
resigned from the prestigious
post. The controversy said much
about the way things seem to be
going for Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu.
Mr. Bar-On's term had lasted
just 60 hours. He hadn't even oc-
cupied his office yet when his
pupil and champion, Justice
Minister Tsachi Hanegbi, en-
tered the studios of Israel's
Channel Two during the evening
news broadcast and informed
the nation that Mr. Bar-On was
history.
The agony of the Bar-On af-
fair may have
been mercifully
brief, but the fall-
out from this
botched appoint-
ment won't die
soon. The choice
of a new attorney
general is always
closely scruti-
nized in Israel;
the post is one of
the most sensi-
tive and powerful
in public life.
As the govern-
ment's legal ad-
viser and head of
the state prose-
cution, the attor-
ney general has
special powers.
When the gov-
ernment asks for
a legal assess-
ment (or if the at-
torney general
feels bound to of-
fer it), the judgment effectively
becomes binding. This person
must ensure that the govern-
ment's actions do not violate the
law and he or she must be pre-
pared to defend those actions in
court. It also is a position sub-
ject to tremendous pressure.
For example, as attorney gen-
eral in 1977, now-Supreme
Court Chief Justice Aharon
Barak forced Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin to resign for ille-
gally maintaining a bank ac-
count abroad.
Since the mid-1960s, the cus-
tom has also been to choose the
attorney general on strictly
professional and apolitical lines.
All the choices have come either
from the bench (military or Dis-
trict Court judges) or academics
(two Hebrew University law
professors). Mr. Bar-On, by con-
trast, made his career in Private
practice, specializing in crimi-
nal cases (most recently in
white-collar crime). He is best
known as an active member of
the Likud's Jerusalem branch
and, among sports fans, as past
chairman of the rough-and-tum-
ble Betar Jerusalem- soccer
team.
A bluff, blunt, "one of the
boys," he is a far cry from Israel's
rarefied juridical elite.
That was part of his appeal to
Mr. Hanegbi (who proposed
him) and Mr. Netanyahu (who
backed the choice). But the ini-
tial opposition to it came from
the cabinet itself. There, the ap-
pointment was presented as a
surprise, last-minute addition
to the Friday, Jan. 10, agenda.
The strongest objections came
from Likud ministers Benny Be-
gin, once a political ally, and
Dan Meridor (a former justice
minister). Others asked to post-
pone the vote for a week so that
they could consider the candi-
date. But Mr. Netanyahu was
bent on pushing the appoint-
ment through.
"It's unthinkable to postpone
the vote," he snapped. "How will
this government look?"
The appointment passed, but
the government looked ridicu-
lous. Joining the opposition La-
bor party in the criticism were
the leading lights of the legal es-
tablishment — to say nothing of
the press.
Former Education Minister
Professor Amnon Rubinstein,
himself a law professor, sharply
said, "It's untenable that a