Amid growing government campaign for AG’s ouster, MKs file bill to enable police probes against her

Coalition lawmakers have drafted a bill that would enable criminal investigations against the attorney general and the state attorney, amid a campaign within the government seeking Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara’s ouster, Hebrew media reports.
The legislation proposes a new mechanism for cases in which there is information that the police wish to investigate: They would need to request the approval of the justice minister, and he would appoint a prosecutor.
“The attorney general and state attorney stand at the head of the law enforcement and prosecution apparatuses,” write Religious Zionism MKs Zvi Sukkot and Simcha Rothman in the explanatory notes for the bill. “There is a shortcoming in the existing law regarding opening criminal proceedings against them. The bill seeks to fix this and enable the justice minister to appoint a prosecutor independent of the State Attorney’s Office in cases of this sort.”
Meanwhile, Shlomo Karhi has revealed the list of 13 ministers who have signed his letter demanding Baharav-Miara’s dismissal: Karhi, Miki Zohar, May Golan, Idit Silman, Amichai Chikli, David Amsalem, Haim Katz, Yitzhak Wasserlauf, Amichay Eliyahu, Orit Strock, Yitzhak Goldknopf, Meir Porush and Itamar Ben Gvir.
The latter has been adamantly lobbying fellow ministers to act for Baharav-Miara’s ouster, but most ministers have not signed off on this, frustrating Ben Gvir, the Ynet news site reports. The report cites unnamed ministers saying this is the far-right leader’s main current focus and that he has been voicing “extreme” threats over the matter.
The Knesset is set to hold a declarative discussion tomorrow on firing the attorney general, though it is not expected to include a vote on the matter, Channel 12 reports.