Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara was summoned Monday for a June 17 hearing on her potential dismissal, in the next step of the government’s efforts to oust her from her post, as ministers indicated they would disobey a court decision against the move.

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, head of a newly established ministerial committee for firing the attorney general, told her that she will be given the opportunity to “lay out the arguments [she] might have” against the government’s intention to fire her due to alleged “unfitting behavior” and “substantive and ongoing differences of opinion [with the government]… creating a situation that prevents effective cooperation.”

The government approved a cabinet resolution Sunday bypassing the existing procedure for firing an attorney general, which until then had required the government to first seek the recommendation of a professional statutory committee headed by former Supreme Court president Asher Grunis.

Instead, a five-member ministerial committee, selected by the government, will give its recommendation and then pass the decision back to the full cabinet, which would need 75 percent of ministers to vote in favor of dismissing the attorney general.

The committee will be made up of Chikli, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, National Security Minister Itamar........

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