Sources close to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said, Monday evening, that he was within his power to get involved in the communications ministry.
Responding to Channel 13 News' broadcast of recordings of him admonishing then-communications minister Ayoub Kara, the sources issued a statement that said, "All of the prime minister's actions are fully in line with the attorney general's directives after leaving his post as Minister of Communications. The attorney general wrote, 'Netanyahu may engage in matters pertaining to the various government offices and the fact that he no longer serves as the communications minister does not negate his involvement in the field of communications in his role of prime minister.' That is, the prime minister was completely allowed to engage in the actions which you presented, as he fought his entire life for a variety of views in the media market - an inexcusable sin in the eyes of his opponents. The only restrictions imposed on the prime minister are with regard to Elovitch and Bezeq - an area in which the prime minister did not deal under the attorney general's instructions."