A government decision on Tuesday, to grant itself private legal representation in an ongoing Supreme Court case over the ultra-Orthodox (haredi) exemption from IDF service, contradicted the Attorney-General’s binding legal opinion and was therefore unlawful, Deputy Attorney-General Dr. Gil Limon charged in a letter to government secretary Yossi Fuchs on Wednesday.The unlawful decision harkened back to the government’s controversial judicial reforms, as it served to weaken the status... Read this story