Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor said Sunday that former attorney general Menachem Mazuz "knew how to act, without relating to any of the publics around him, not what the public wanted, not what those above or below wanted."

Speaking at the cabinet's farewell for Mazuz, whose term ended last week, the former justice minister said, "He did what he saw was correct. The attorney general may not ask what the public or the government want but what the law says.