Report: Netanyahu Pushing to Transfer Power to Declare War to Security Cabinet
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is pushing to transfer the authority to declare war from the government to the narrower security cabinet, Channel 2 reported Monday.
The report said that the Justice Ministry has been instructed to begin drafting an amendment to the Basic Law: Government, to be introduced to the Knesset as soon as the summer recess is over. Sources said the goal of the move is to prevent leaks.
Reactions to the proposal were mixed and did not fall along the usual opposition-government divide. Netanyahu’s erstwhile challenger Yesh Atid Leader Yair Lapid called it “correct and professional,” while his coalition ally Education Minister Naftali Bennett said the report was a “non-story.”
