“The cabinet doesn’t interfere with the attorney general’s considerations,” then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin told his ministers after they had criticized Yitzhak Zamir at a cabinet meeting on April 29, 1979. “No government official is authorized to demand that the attorney general rescind a decision and devise another one. … We won’t pay him compliments, but he doesn’t need them. The Supreme Court has already paid him enough compliments, and for the cabinet to add to that would be chutzpah.”
