Police postpone questioning of journalist Aviad Glickman, suspected of ‘shoving’ employee of PM’s wife, after AG intervenes — report

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has stepped in amid a police investigation into Israeli journalist Aviad Glickman, the Kan public broadcaster reports, and instructed them not to proceed with questioning him under caution until she has a chance to meet with police officials on the matter.

Glickman, Channel 13’s legal correspondent, received a police summons earlier this week on suspicion of having shoved an employee of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, during a court case in late May.

Police had planned to question Glickman yesterday, but postponed the session after Baharav-Miara requested a joint meeting on the matter, the report says.

Channel 13 had sent a letter to the attorney general after Glickman received the summons, urging her to intervene in the investigation, which the news outlet claimed was “an infringement of freedom of the press.”

Glickman, who is known as a critic of the prime minister, was covering a hearing in a libel countersuit filed by Sara Netanyahu against Sylvie Genesia, a former worker at the Prime Minister’s Residence, when the incident under investigation occurred.

Footage showed him jostling Gal Dabush, an employee of the prime minister’s wife, while trying to push through a crowded doorway at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court, apparently in order to film Netanyahu as she left the court. Immediately afterward, Likud spokesperson Guy Levy shouted at Glickman that he would file a police complaint for assault. Glickman was then sent away from the court by officials as Levy filmed him and hurled insults at him.

In further footage circulated on social media shortly after the incident, Dabush told the camera that Glickman “pushed my back,” adding, “It now hurts me.”

She claimed the incident left her bruised and in pain.