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‘Idiot’: Likud MK Gotliv attacks police chief over Sde Teiman video leak investigation
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. 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"
Firebrand Likud MK Tally Gotliv decries Israel Police chief Danny Levy as an “idiot” over his reported refusal to give investigation material regarding the Sde Teiman video leak to retired judge Asher Kula.
“There is no constitutional crisis here — not even something resembling a constitutional crisis. We simply have an idiot police commissioner,” she tells Radio Kol Barama, questioning why the senior law enforcement officer does not summon Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara for questioning in the matter.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir slammed the police’s senior command yesterday after they declined to pass on investigative material in the case, which focuses on former military advocate general Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi’s leak of footage purporting to show troops severely abusing a Gazan detainee.
Ben Gvir, who oversees law enforcement, met with Levy and Boaz Blatt, the head of the police’s investigations and intelligence division, and reportedly demanded that they obey the government’s wishes.
Arguing that Baharav-Miara is compromised in the case, Justice Minister Yariv Levin last week tapped Kula, the state ombudsman for judges, to head the investigation in her stead, leading the attorney general to accuse Levin of misusing his authority. The High Court is set to issue a ruling tomorrow determining who should lead the investigation.
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