Government ministers accuse AG of harming Iran war effort with call to fire Ben Gvir

Members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet accuse Attorney General Gali-Baharav Miara of harming the war effort against Iran after she calls on the High Court of Justice to order the dismissal of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

“The dismissed attorney general has not stopped for a moment from harming the work of the government, even in times of war,” declares Justice Minister Yariv Levin.

Calling the hearing on Ben Gvir’s potential dismissal “illegal,” Levin declares that “no judge or attorney general has the authority to replace the Knesset and the prime minister and to determine who will serve as a minister…The fact that Adv. Baharav-Miara is choosing to engage in this at this time proves once again that she is unfit to serve in any position. Her presence is interfering with the war effort.”

While Israelis are “united in a historic war against their enemies in the Iranian axis of evil,” Baharav-Miara “finds it urgent to continue her delusional display of detachment and lack of self-awareness in her war against the government, against democracy, and against the will of the people,” declares Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Only the Knesset and the government can appoint or remove ministers, he says, insisting that Ben Gvir will remain in office and “our government will continue to lead the State of Israel, in spite of Baharav-Miara.”

In contrast, Democrats chairman Yair Golan backs Baharav-Miara and calls Ben Gvir “a convicted criminal [and] a dangerous pyromaniac who has taken over the Israel Police.”

“Such a person must be immediately removed from any decision-making position, and all the more so from the central body entrusted with law enforcement in Israel,” he writes on X.