Communications minister calls for AG to be fired, invoking Jewish law associated with attempted murder

In an incendiary post on X, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi calls for Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to be fired, while invoking principles of Jewish law associated with attempted murder to justify his position.

Karhi was speaking against the background of an incident in which flares were fired at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Caesarea last night.

Accusing the embattled attorney general of failing to tackle violence and incitement from anti-government protesters, Karhi alleges that Baharav-Miara is “sitting with her arms crossed, granting them legitimacy and refusing to stop this dangerous deterioration.”

He adds that what he describes as her failure to act “is bringing us closer with great strides to a catastrophe – to the murder of the prime minister.”

Three people suspected over the flares incident were arrested in the early hours of this morning.

“The attorney general must go home today. A person who gets up to kill you — including through weakness and agreement through silence — rise up and fire him,” continued Karhi, paraphrasing a line from the Talmud about self-defense.

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid in response accuses Karhi of “openly inciting murder against the attorney general,” and calls for him to be fired.