AG considering indicting Likud MK Tally Gotliv for revealing identity of Shin Bet agent

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is considering filing an indictment, subject to a hearing, against Likud MK Tally Gotliv for violating the Shin Bet law by allegedly disclosing the identity of an agent of the security service, the State Attorney’s Office announces.

Gotliv was twice summoned for questioning by the police over the affair but refused to show up.

In January 2024, the firebrand MK posted that the partner of Shikma Bressler, a key leader of the protest movement against the government’s judicial overhaul agenda, was a Shin Bet agent, in violation of the 2002 Law for the Shin Bet.

Gotliv claims that her actions are protected by her parliamentary immunity as an MK.

“My disclosure that the partner of Shikma Bresler, the inciter, rebel and leader of the civil rebellion which she led against me was done within the framework of fulfilling my duty and precisely for which parliamentary immunity was designed,” says Gotliv in response to the State Attorney Office’s announcement.

She declares that she will not turn up to the hearing pending an indictment just as she did not appear for questioning.

There are two types of parliamentary immunity for MKs: substantive immunity, which applies to actions directly related to an MK’s official duties and mostly applies to their freedom of speech; and procedural immunity, which protects MKs from standing trial while in office but which must be actively granted by the Knesset.