Ben Gvir urges Acting PM Levin to fire AG while Netanyahu is out of the country

Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir calls on Justice Minister Yariv Levin to take the opportunity of the prime minister’s absence to fire Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.

“Today, my friend Minister Yariv Levin is currently acting prime minister and this is an opportunity to do it and fire the attorney general, now before it’s too late,” Ben Gvir tells reporters ahead of his far-right party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently in Washington DC to meet with US President Donald Trump.

“If you don’t fire the attorney general, she will send you all home. She will bring down the government. What more does she have to do for you to understand this? It’s only a matter of time before she brings you all down and fabricates cases against you all. I’m very much afraid that by the time you realize it, it will already be too late,” he says.

A growing number of coalition lawmakers and cabinet ministers have called for Baharav-Miara’s ouster due to frustration over her refusal to defend various controversial and unprecedented measures the government seeks to advance that she has determined would be against the law.

Ben Gvir has accused Baharav-Miara of engaging in a fishing expedition, claiming in November that she had undertaken a search for a legal pretext to take action against him.

Ben Gvir also calls on Netanyahu to come back to Israel with an American commitment to restart the war and urges him to take steps to advance Trump’s proposal to move Gazans out of the Strip.

“As long as there is no government that wants to overthrow Hamas rule, I do not see myself and Otzma Yehudit returning to the government,” he adds.

Otzma Yehudit left Netanyahu’s coalition last month after Israel agreed to a hostage-ceasefire agreement with Hamas in Gaza.