Former Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein interviewed by The Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz at the Maariv Leaders Conference. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
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On Monday, former attorney-general Yehuda Weinstein rejected accusations against his successor, Avichai Mandelblit, of dragging out the corruption probes against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In his comments at the Maariv Conference in Jerusalem, he said that it was possible that Mandelblit was sometimes delaying the final decision in order to perfect cases which might already be strong, but had holes to fill.
He admitted that he and his staff may have acted similarly with the case against Avigdor Liberman in 2013, meaning that what some saw as foot-dragging was merely being extra cautious with complex cases that carried outsized consequences.
Along the same lines, he said that the law that applies to probing the prime minister and a regular citizen are the same: whether there is a reasonable chance for a conviction.
However, he added that the fact that the law puts the Attorney-General personally in charge of the decision shows that there is an expectation that law enforcement will take the question of being sure it will get a conviction extra seriously.
Regarding the Jewish Nation-State Law, he had no prediction of how the High Court of Justice will rule regarding its constitutionality, but said that it would have been better had the law not been passed.
Weinstein said that the Declaration of Independence struck the perfect balance between Israel’s Jewish and democratic character traits and that he would not have changed a single letter in it.
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