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Police reportedly scrap probe into right-wing agitator who blocked cars of former Supreme Court president, ex-PM
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Police have canceled an investigation into right-wing activist and provocateur Mordechai David, who blocked the cars of a former Supreme Court president and an ex-prime minister, Hebrew media reports.
There is no formal comment from police.
Last night, David and a number of other activists blocked the car of former prime minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv.
“What’s up, you complete nobody?” David asked the former premier, bringing his phone up to Barak’s face to record the interaction. “You complete nobody!”
Last week, David and a number of others blocked former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak from driving away from a Tel Aviv parking lot outside a conference where he spoke.
According to Hebrew media, David was to be interrogated alongside several other men on suspicion of disturbing public order after they stood in front of the 89-year-old retired judge’s car while David lambasted him as a “dictator” and “criminal.”
Barak, a Holocaust survivor, is internationally respected and is seen as Israel’s preeminent jurist. Within Israel, he has long been portrayed by right-wing leaders as a leftist activist judge who is to blame for many of their complaints against the judicial system.
In January 2024, he was tasked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be an ad hoc judge on behalf of Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague as a member of the 15-judge panel hearing South Africa’s case accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
The Times of Israel Community.