Israeli cabinet casts no-confidence vote against attorney general | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Critics see the no-confidence vote as part of broader moves to weaken judicial checks on Netanyahu’s government.

Israel’s cabinet has passed a vote of no confidence against Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, the country’s justice minister has said, in a first step in the removal of yet another vocal critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government.

The vote on Sunday comes just two days after the government dismissed Ronen Bar, the head of Shin Bet, the…