Likud: Report of a Weakened Commission of Inquiry Untrue

The Likud party denies the report of Channel 12 News reporter Dafna Liel, according to which people around Netanyahu are preparing to form a government commission of inquiry to investigate the failure leading to the Hamas surprise attack.

“The report regarding this or that commission of inquiry is not true. Prime Minister Netanyahu is currently busy solely with fighting towards a complete victory over Hamas,” the Likud stated.

According to Liel’s report on Channel 12 News, “Netanyahu and his entourage plan to form a governmental commission of inquiry and not a state one when the war ends, on the grounds that this is what happened after the Lebanon War in 2006 with the Winograd Commission.”

The significance of this difference is that the commission is appointed by the government, as opposed to a state commission headed by a former Supreme Court President, and it has fewer powers and less teeth.

It should be noted that the Bennet-Lapid government formed two such state commissions: one to investigate the Meron disaster and headed by retired Supreme Court President Miriam Naor ob”m, and one on the matter of the acquisition of German submarines headed by Justice Asher Gronis.