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Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Ben Gvir: Police chief putting on a ridiculous show, wants to join the protest camp
Otzma Yehudit party leader and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 3, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
After Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai warned earlier of what he said were the dangers of a law giving broad powers over police policy to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, the minister assails Shabtai, calling the document he filed with the court setting out his position “no more than a ridiculous show.”
According to Ben Gvir, “over the past year, the police commissioner did his best, though not with great success, to carry out my policies.”
The minister claims that “with his time in office coming to an end and his desire to be part of the [anti-government protest] camp, he has begun to adopt positions challenging me, through flattery to the attorney general and substandard work.”
