Guy Peleg in an unequivocal message: "Elron does not deserve to be a judge in the Supreme Court"

Guy Peleg opened his program on 103FM today (Thursday) referring to the surprising and talked about decision of Supreme Court Judge Yosef Elron yesterday to submit a candidacy for the position of President of the Supreme Court and thereby break the tradition of seniority that has been practiced for decades.

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"In this way, he basically ignores or cancels or requests that they cancel the seniority practice which says that the president of the Supreme Court is appointed by the oldest judge in the Supreme Court. This means that the Supreme Court is an independent court and whoever is promoted to be its president does not depend on politicians, and in this way a fortress The Supreme Court's independence and the independence of the system," Pelag said at the beginning of the program.

He continued, explaining: "Yesterday in the main edition I published things that were told to me by several associates of the judge. They told me that Judge Elron does not challenge the seniority system and if it were not for Yitzchak Amit who is expected to be appointed according to the seniority system as the next president of the Supreme Court, the judge would not have done so Alron the step he took. Closers also said that this step by Alron is an independent step and is not the result of cooperation or a big plan or contact with the Minister of Justice Yariv Levin."

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According to him, "It took me a few hours to think and deeply understand the meaning of this step and I came to the thought that Judge Yosef Elron is not fit to be a Supreme Court judge and certainly not fit to preside over this institution – the Supreme Court, and all this for what? Because one of two – Or that Judge Elron, contrary to the briefings of his associates, in connection with the Minister of Justice and part of a big plan of this government, of this coalition to take over the Supreme Court, to appoint a Supreme Court President on behalf of, to change the composition of the committee for the selection of judges, to appoint judges who are proxies of the politicians. Yosef Elron says through his close associates that this is not the case."

"This leads us to the second possibility, which is that this step taken by Yosef Elron is related to hatred, to murky, extremely difficult personal relationships, between him and Judge Yitzhak Amit," he emphasized, "the two served at the same time in the district court in Haifa, the enmity between them is one of the most famous, it was widely publicized , we discussed it. It is something known to everyone who is involved in the field of law."

"When a judge doesn't put aside personal considerations, personal hates and loves and that's what guides him when he takes such a dramatic step, he doesn't deserve to be a supreme court judge and certainly not to be the head of this institution," he explained.