Attorney General Avichai Mandleblit dismisses claims by Public Security Minister Amir Ohana that he isn’t taking death threats against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seriously.
Mandelblit says the Likud minister’s letter to him on the issue was “riddled with unfounded and false claims against law enforcement.”
Responding to Ohana, the attorney general notes that in three cases of threats against Netanyahu, criminal investigations were opened, and charges were filed in one of them.
Ohana earlier in the week called participants in a Tuesday mass demonstration against Netanyahu anarchists, while claiming the level of incitement currently being directed at the premier and his family dwarfs what was seen in the lead-up to former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination.
“You’re not giving serious attention to my appeal over the growing threats to the lives of the prime minister and his family,” Ohana wrote in a letter to the attorney general.
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