Ministers slam AG’s decision to call for investigation into Sara Netanyahu

Ministers in the right-wing government react with fury to the attorney general’s decision to call for an investigation into Sara Netanyahu on charges that she improperly interfered with her husband’s corruption trial, reiterating their call for the attorney general to be fired.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says that “those who chase after ministers in the government and their families in a political manner cannot continue to serve as the attorney general,” adding that the issue of firing her — a move he has been pushing for months — did not come up in the recent cabinet meeting “for various weird reasons.”

Justice Minister Yariv Levin slams the State Attorney’s Office for “opening investigations due to television gossip,” deriding the attorney general for “extreme selective enforcement of the law — which is a crime.”

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi says Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is “desperately attempting to prevent her impeachment,” accusing her of serving as an opposition leader instead of a professional and demanding that she “Go home!”