The Supreme Court has issued a restraining order against the appointment of former GSS officer Ehud Yatom as head of the Prime Minister\'s Anti-Terrorism Task Force. Meretz MKs Yossi Sarid and Mosi Raz had appealed against the appointment, saying that Yatom\'s involvement in the deaths of two captured terrorists in the 1984 \"Bus 300\" incident disqualified him for the post.
Yatom\'s defenders say that Yatom was not only been granted a pardon for his actions, but had been promised at the time that \"no harm would come to him as a result.\" They say that the Court\'s decision today is an unfair retraction of that promise. In addition, said his one-time attorney Dov Weisglass, Yatom was following orders from his superiors in the GSS at the time, and common practice in Israel is that orders that are not clearly illegal or immoral - i.e., they have no \"black flag waving over it\" - must be followed. Today\'s ruling by Supreme Court justice Dalia Dorner freezes Yatom\'s appointment, but allows him to continue official preparations for his assumption of the post.
Yatom\'s defenders say that Yatom was not only been granted a pardon for his actions, but had been promised at the time that \"no harm would come to him as a result.\" They say that the Court\'s decision today is an unfair retraction of that promise. In addition, said his one-time attorney Dov Weisglass, Yatom was following orders from his superiors in the GSS at the time, and common practice in Israel is that orders that are not clearly illegal or immoral - i.e., they have no \"black flag waving over it\" - must be followed. Today\'s ruling by Supreme Court justice Dalia Dorner freezes Yatom\'s appointment, but allows him to continue official preparations for his assumption of the post.