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Saturday, December 14, 2024
Levin demands AG immediately order probe into ex-prosecutor’s remarks on volunteer reserve pilots
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. 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"
Writing to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, Justice Minister Yariv Levin demands that she open an investigation into former state attorney Moshe Lador over his declaration that IAF pilots should stop volunteering for reserve duty if the government resumes its controversial judicial overhaul plan.
Critics have pointed to several controversial initiatives by the coalition — including moves to allow the Knesset to appoint the state ombudsman for judges, fire ministerial legal advisers, and allow the justice minister to determine bar association membership dues — as evidence that it seeks to revive the judicial overhaul agenda frozen after the Hamas-led attack that sparked the war in Gaza.
In a letter to the attorney general, Levin states that “calling for insubordination, during normal times and even more so in times of war, is a clear and serious violation of the law,” and therefore demands she “immediately order the opening of an investigation” into the matter.
Levin’s letter follows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public appeal to Baharav-Miara “to take immediate action.”
