AG postpones investigation into journalist who allegedly shoved Sara Netanyahu aide

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has stepped in amid a police investigation into journalist Aviad Glickman, Hebrew media reported on Friday, instructing law enforcement not to proceed with questioning him under caution until she has a chance to meet with police officials on the matter.

Glickman, Channel 13’s legal correspondent, received a police summons earlier this week on suspicion of having shoved an employee of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, during a court case in late May.

Police had planned to question Glickman on Thursday, but postponed the session after Baharav-Miara requested a joint meeting on the matter, according to reports.

Channel 13 had sent a letter to the attorney general after Glickman received the summons, urging her to intervene in the investigation, which the news outlet claimed was “an infringement of freedom of the press.”

Baharav-Miara reportedly said the meeting was “required from the necessary procedural caution needed for investigating journalists in relation to their work and to prevent suspicions of harming [their work].”

Glickman, who is known as a critic of the prime minister, was covering a hearing in May in a libel countersuit filed by Sara Netanyahu against Sylvie Genesia, a former worker at the Prime Minister’s Residence, when the incident under investigation occurred.

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Footage showed him jostling Gal Dabush, an employee of the prime minister’s wife, while trying to push through a crowded doorway at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court, apparently in order to film Netanyahu as she left the court. Immediately afterward, Likud spokesperson Guy Levy shouted at Glickman that he would file a police complaint for assault. Glickman was then sent away from the court by officials as Levy filmed him and hurled insults at him.

In further footage circulated on social media shortly after the incident, Dabush told the camera that Glickman “pushed my back,” adding, “It now hurts me.”

She claimed the incident left her bruised and in pain.

According to Haaretz, Dabush also works for National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who oversees the police.

Ben Gvir slammed Baharav-Miara on Friday for delaying the investigation into Glickman, writing in a letter to her that she had a “serious conflict of interest” on the matter.

“[Glickman] is considered in the public as someone who works for [Baharav-Miara and State Attorney Amit Aisman] and receives exclusive information, and therefore there is a serious concern that the personal relationship stood at the center of the extraordinary decision to stop the investigation.

“Remove your hands from the investigation and reveal to the public the dates of your and the state attorney’s meetings and conversations with Glickman,” Ben Gvir’s letter continued.

Glickman was initially called in for questioning on Tuesday. According to Haaretz, the decision to investigate him was made under political pressure, which police deny.