Police investigating after fake death notices posted online for Lapid, attorney general

The Israel Police’s Lahav 433 major crimes unit has opened an investigation into fake death notices posted on social media which claimed that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid had died, the Walla news outlet reports.

According to the report, police suspect that the notices were posted as a form of incitement against the attorney general and leader of the opposition.

“We announce the passing of the hated and traitorous adversary Gali Baharav Miara,” read the false death announcement for the attorney general that was posted earlier this week. A similar poster announced the “passing of the national idiot Yair Lapid.”

In response to the posters, Lapid said on Friday that he was sure a “four-minute video of shocked condemnation in which Netanyahu condemns this clear incitement to murder the attorney general and the leader of the opposition” would be forthcoming.

מצרף פה את התוצר האחרון של מכונת
הרעל. אין לי ספק שעוד היום יהיה סרטון גינוי של ארבע דקות של זעזוע שבהן נתניהו מגנה את ההסתה הברורה הזו לרצח של היועצת המשפטית
לממשלה וראש האופוזיציה pic.twitter.com/JzUTlb4rjc

— יאיר לפיד – Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) December 27, 2024