Justice minister to green light Case 3000 state inquiry

• Published date: 03 October 2021
• Author: YONAH JEREMY BOB
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

A number of former top aides to former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have already been indicted in a separate criminal case, so this commission would go beyond criminal issues and examine whether the government had functioned properly in dealing with the submarines.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz has been pushing for such an inquiry for several months, but was thwarted by Netanyahu under the previous government.

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Gantz had also been rebuffed by Sa'ar in the early days of the current government because the justice minister said that rolling out such a commission was his purview.

In the end, it appears that Sa'ar did not oppose Gantz's idea as much as that he wanted control over the powers and setup of the commission.

Some of the core questions the commission would be expected to examine are whether Netanyahu acted appropriately in completing aspects of the submarine deals with Germany behind the back of the defense minister and top IDF officials, and whether the submarines were...