Israeli elections panel allows lawyers with ties to ruling Likud party to vie for adviser post

00:57 - 18 Feb 2026

By law, committee members must have no personal or business affiliation with a political party. Nonetheless, Haaretz has learned that one of the candidates is Guy Busi, an attorney who represented Likud Minister Amihai Chikli in the High Court and defended Netanyahu on Channel 14 panels