Israel's attorney general has said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nomination of an army major general as head of domestic intelligence is "illegal", after the supreme court found his move to sack the incumbent chief unlawful.
In a letter to Netanyahu obtained by AFP on Tuesday, Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara noted the recent "court decisions regarding the end of the Shin Bet director's mandate" and said: "Your decision regarding major general (David) Zini, made in a situation of conflict of interest and contradicting the conclusions of the judgment as well as the judicial directives in force, is illegitimate and illegal."