Former Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit was a guest on a panel at an event of the Jewish Federation in New York (UJA-NY). In response to Ynet's question, Mandelblit criticized the claim that there is a connection between the judicial overhaul effort and the surprise attack by Hamas on October 7 or that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignored intelligence warnings. "It is simply not true to say that Hamas attacked Israel because Netanyahu was busy with the judicial overhaul. There is no connection," he said, but nevertheless emphasized: "If judicial overhaul had passed, it would have been difficult to protect our soldiers because the system had no legitimacy in the world." (Daniel Edelson, New York)
No link between judicial overhaul and Oct. 7, Israel's former AG says
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