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Like a ‘kamikaze’ pilot: Sa’ar tears into AG for ‘conduct harming the government’

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s offices publishes the text of the diatribe that it says he unleashed at Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara — who he appointed in 2022 when serving as justice minister — during this evening’s cabinet meeting.
Sa’ar says he racked his brain to find a historical analogy for Baharav-Miara’s “conduct harming the government” before settling on Japanese “kamikaze” fighter pilots during World War II “who committed suicide on enemy targets.”
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