interest agreement and which the supreme court acknowledged in a ruling over netanyahus fitness to serve while on trial for corruption instead justice minister yariv levin a close confidant of netanyahu is spearheading the overhaulbut on thursday after parliament passed a law making it harder to remove a sitting prime minister netanyahu said he was unshackled from the attorney generals decision and vowed to wade into the crisis and mend the rift in the nation that declaration prompted the attorney general gali baharavmiara to warn that netanyahu was breaking his conflict of interest agreementthe fastpaced legal and political developments have catapulted israel into uncharted territory said guy lurie a research fellow at the israel democracy institute a jerusalem think tankwe are at the start of a constitutional crisis in the sense that there is a disagreement over the source of authority and legitimacy of different governing bodies he said