Following Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara’s letter expressing the need to freeze the Police Commissioner’s decision to dismiss police legal adviser Dep.-Ch. Elazar Kahana, Defense Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said he believes she must be fired on Channel 14’s The Patriots on Wednesday night.
Ben-Gvir said, “Let’s say that the AG will support [the dismissal]. I think the day is coming, the day is coming, I long ago asked the Prime Minister to get rid of her. I think that if she comes and says something like that, as the day approaches, that I will knock on the table and give him an ultimatum, I think it’s time to fire her.”
“It’s crazy,” he continued, “yesterday, she threatened him with dismissal. Yesterday, she said, ‘I will dismiss the Police Commissioner.’ Today, she’ll dismiss a minister, and tomorrow, she’ll dismiss Netanyahu.”
In a letter last week, Baharav-Miara claimed the decision to remove the police legal adviser from his position was made quickly, unexplainedly, and potentially illegally, leading to her decision to freeze the move.
“The appointment or removal of legal advisers in organizations, including the police, are done while conferring with the attorney-general, to whom they are subject professionally. Such a move of de facto firing a legal adviser, in an expedited process as described, and without the involvement of the attorney-general, is unprecedented,” Baharav-Miara wrote.
Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara listens on as she attends a cabinet meeting at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on June 5, 2024. (credit: GIL COHEN MAGEN)
‘A delusional petition’
Ben-Gvir and Baharav-Miara have clashed over multiple issues since her appointment in 2022, including over the promotion of a police officer under investigation for the illegal use of stun grenades against protesters.
“They claim that I make appointments as I want – by the way, rightfully so; it’s my job, it’s my authority,” Ben-Gvir told The Patriots host Yinon Magal, “That I don’t behave as a minister should behave. Delusional. A delusional petition. They need to roll it down all the stairs.”
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