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Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Ben Gvir files complaint, saying someone sent fake letter telling police stations to hang his photo
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s office announces that the far-right politician has filed a police complaint after an unidentified person allegedly sent a letter in the name of a top aide of his, demanding that Ben Gvir’s photograph be hung in police stations.
The directive, which was allegedly sent to several stations in the name of Chanamel Dorfman, Ben Gvir’s chief of staff, is “a fake letter and there is no such directive,” Ben Gvir’s office states.
Critics have long accused Ben Gvir of politicizing the Israel Police, with former chief Kobi Shabtai declaring during a farewell address in July that “we must not make the police political — that is how we lose public legitimacy and lose our right to exist.”
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