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Monday, June 9, 2025
Rothman walks out of Knesset committee meeting after being chided by wife of hostage
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MK Simcha Rothman adjourns a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee and walks out after being accused by the wife of a hostage of helping perpetuate his captivity.
Lishay Miran-Lavie, the wife of Hamas-held hostage Omri Miran, displays a picture of her two young daughters holding a poster of their captive father before the committee.
“This is how the girls are taking a picture with their dad,” says Miran-Lavie. “Until when will they wait for their father, when will their father return from Gaza?”
She also chides Rothman, the committee chairman, for checking his phone in the middle of her speech. “This discussion is very deep and interesting, but it really should not be held during wartime,” she says bitterly.
She accuses Rothman of keeping her husband hostage in Gaza, prompting the right-wing lawmaker to call a recess and leave the room.
The committee was convened to discuss a bill that aims to bring the Department of Internal Police Investigations, which probes police officers suspected of committing crimes, under the direct control of Justice Minister Yariv Levin.
Critics have called the bill the latest step in a coalition-led campaign to wrest power from professional legal bodies and subjugate them to political interests.
The Times of Israel Community.