Attorney general’s husband dies of ALS at age 69
Zion Miara served in the Shin Bet for nearly 3 decades; Smotrich says he ‘dedicated his best years to Israel’s security’
Zion Miara, the husband of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, died Tuesday of ALS, his family announced. He was 69.
ALS is an incurable disease of the nervous system that leads to gradual loss of muscle control.
Miara served in the Shin Bet’s operational combat unit for 28 years.
The former security official was sick for over two decades with the neurodegenerative disease, which eventually confined him to a wheelchair and caused him difficulty breathing, until he eventually succumbed to it.
He left behind his wife and three sons.
Miara’s niece, Ruthie Rumstein, eulogized him as a “true hero of Israel” who “passed away today after a heroic 23-year battle with the cursed ALS disease.
“Thank you, our beloved Zion, on behalf of the entire people of Israel, for your many years of service in the Shin Bet — for your courage, your sacrifice, and your contribution, so that we could sleep peacefully at night,” she wrote on Facebook.
Several expressed sympathy to the attorney general and her family, including Opposition Leader Yair Lapid,
“I offer my condolences to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and her family on the passing of her husband, Zion Miara, may his memory be a blessing,” Lapid wrote on X shortly after Miara’s death was announced.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has backed ousting Baharav-Miara from her position as attorney general, also offered his condolences to the widowed legal official.
In a post on X, he described her late husband a man who “dedicated the majority of his years, and the best of them, to Israel’s security.”
Miara’s funeral is scheduled to take place Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Yavne in central Israel.
The Times of Israel Community.