Karhi blasts Supreme Court ruling on Second Authority council

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi attacked Israel's High Court of Justice on Wednesday after it ruled that the Second Authority council will continue operating despite the collective resignations of six members. The resignations came after pressure, according to the ruling, from Karhi and his team. The council is headed by Mordechai Mordechai.

Karhi said, "The High Court is not above the law, so it does not matter what it decides, we will win. Democracy will defeat the dictators in robes who keep trampling the law. We will replace them and they will be gone, soon, God willing." He argued that the law requires at least two-thirds of the 15-member council to keep it valid, while the court allegedly accepted, "just because it felt like it," that the seven remaining members of the outgoing council are enough.

He added that the court has no authority to ignore the law, so its decision has no legal force, nor do any decisions made by the seven remaining council members. Karhi also claimed the next step could be the court restoring the outgoing Bennett-Lapid-Abbas government and allowing it to govern by interim order. He concluded that the public will be shown there is no point in voting, but said his side will prove otherwise in the next election, when, as he put it, "the people will be sovereign."