Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann told Yediot Acharonot Friday that if the Kahan Committee, which investigated the first Lebanon War, intended to oust Ariel Sharon from Begin's government, it was in the wrong. Friedmann was asked if he thought the Winograd Committee – which investigated the Second Lebanon War – was wrong to refrain making personal recommendations regarding the Prime Minister, ministers and IDF officers. The Justice Minister said: "the expectations from committees of investigation that they decide who will be sacked and who will remain in office are unreasonable… It is unacceptable that a committee will take away a political position from somebody. It can, at most, determine that he is unfit for administrative office."

Friedmann was then asked if he was not retroactively saying that the Kahan Committee's decision to oust Sharon from the position of Defense Minister was wrong. He answered: "The nature of the Kahan Committee's decision regarding Sharon is not clear to me, to this day. If they meant to depose him, they made a mistake."

The interviewers noted that the key figures in the Kahan Committee were Aharon Barak (who later became Supreme Court President), Dorit Beinisch and Edna Arbel (now a Supreme Court judge and an ally of Beinisch's). The committee's recommendations, that Sharon be relieved of his duties as Defense Minister and that he never be appointed to the job again, let to his dismissal from the Ministry of Defense in 1983.