Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reassess National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s role due to his alleged political interference in police operations, Anadolu reports according to Israel’s Haaretz daily.
Baharav-Miara said, “The combination of the alleged improper interventions in police operations and the dependency of police officers on the minister for their promotions undermines the assurance that the police will act in loyalty to the public rather than the politicians.”
She noted in a letter sent to Netanyahu, following a petition to the High Court of Justice against Ben-Gvir’s position, that incidents presented in the petition as well as incidents that precede it “create a rare, severe and ongoing pattern of law violations, breaches of duty and harm to fundamental governance principles, alongside the politicisation of police work.”
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