Minister appears to confirm coalition party leaders plan to move ahead with A-G’s ouster; Gantz: ‘Disconnected government’

Former war cabinet minister Benny Gantz slams the government, following reports that coalition leaders agreed to move forward with ousting Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.

“Instead of the government meeting dealing with the reconstruction of the North and the South, the disconnected government is dealing with ambushing the attorney general,” Gantz writes on X.

In an apparent confirmation of the Hebrew media reports, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi says the “decision of the coalition leaders to begin the process of dismissing the attorney general is a courageous and necessary step to correct serious distortions that have taken root in the Israeli legal system.”

“The time has come to restore the balance between the authorities and to end the unfettered rule of unelected officials,” he adds in a statement.

He calls the process of removing Baharav-Miara “an important step on the path to freeing the State of Israel from the shackles of extremist legal activism.”