Suspect accused of firing flares at PM’s home is senior Navy officer who halted reserve duty over judicial overhaul

The Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court clears for publication the name of three of the suspects arrested for firing flares at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home in Caesarea on Saturday night.

One of them is Rear Adm. (res.) Ofer Doron, a former senior Navy officer who announced last year that he would no longer show up for volunteer reservist duty in protest of the government’s controversial judicial overhaul plan, and was suspended from the reserves in response.

The other two suspects are named as Amir Sadeh and Itai Yafeh, both longtime anti-government protesters.

According to Channel 12 news, the three suspects told police that they did not intend to fire toward Netanyahu’s home, and that they even fired a test to make sure it would not head in that direction but that the wind forced it off course. Nobody was harmed in the incident and no damage was caused, and the Netanyahus were not home at the time.

The three suspects remain in detention.