The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued the full verdict in which the 11 judges decided that there is no impediment preventing a prime minister accused of criminal acts from forming a government.
Judge Meni Mazuz was the most troubled by the prospect of a prime minister forming a government while under indictment, arguing that "the reality that a man who has been accused of criminal offenses against the purity of virtue establishes and presides over a government, raises a public-moral difficulty that is difficult to overstate."
"Such a reality reflects a social crisis and a moral failure of society and the political system in Israel," Mazuz argued.
Justice Yitzhak Amit justified his decision, stating that "intervention in a decision establishing the executive branch is like a full-fledged conflict with the will of the voter as expressed in the vote of his representatives in the Knesset. In practice, the rejection by the court of a person who was elected prime minister by a majority vote in the Knesset would be a constitutional nightmare that may plague the court and put it in the center of a political storm."