Levin demands AG address any role in Shin Bet’s Jewish Division detentions

Justice Minister Yariv Levin demands Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara answer if she authorized the stated detention policy of the head of the Shin Bet’s Jewish Division, in the wake of a recording in which he is heard saying he had a policy of arresting and holding radical settler youths without evidence.

“Since these severe things were published, you have not addressed them at all, and have taken no action against the head of the Jewish Division,” says Levin in a hostile missive to the attorney general, who he is in the process of firing.

“What is your position on the matter, and why have you taken no action on it?” the justice minister demands.

Levin also asks if Baharav-Miara or anyone else in her office approved the Shin Bet Jewish Division’s policy, if he consulted with her before adopting the policy, and if she was aware of his conduct.

Aleph, as the head of the Shin Bet’s Jewish Division is known, announced today that he was suspending himself from the role until an investigation into him is conducted, saying he had “erred” in his use of language.