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(L) Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2022. (R) MK Simcha Rothman, chair of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee at the Knesset February 19, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 5, 2025, 2:55 pm
Rothman said planning to fast-track bill to split AG’s office when Knesset reconvenes
Controversial bill would create new role of ‘prosecutor general’ appointed by justice minister, to be brought for its preliminary reading first week of Knesset’s winter session
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting. (Maayan Toaf / GPO, undated photo)
September 15, 2024, 7:17 pm
Ministers decry incitement after PM compared to Hitler, demand action from deputy AG
At fiery cabinet meeting, Likud’s David Amsalem says attorney general ‘should have been fired on the first day of the government, and if not then on the second’
By Sam Sokol
Israel's Ashkenazi former chief rabbi David Lau, right, and Israel's Sephardi former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend an event at a ceremony in Jerusalem, June 30, 2023. (The Chief Rabbinate of Israel)
July 5, 2024, 9:17 pm
A fight over women’s representation leaves Israel’s Jews without chief rabbis
The Justice Ministry’s demand that the rabbinate consider women for a position traditionally reserved for rabbis is key to the delay in succession for the first time in over a century
By Canaan Lidor
Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon attends a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee hearing, June 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 26, 2023, 2:06 pm
Deputy AG tells Knesset blocking ‘reasonableness’ test opens a ‘black hole’
AG’s office opposes coalition bill to bar judicial review of ‘reasonableness’ of elected officials’ decisions; deputy Gil Limon warns of ‘serious harm to basic democratic values’
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Deputy Attorney General Avital Sompolinsky attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on March 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 20, 2023, 3:00 pm
‘Significant politicization’: Deputy AG spurns coalition plan to appoint new judges
Avital Sompolinsky tells Knesset panel that the legal difficulties posed by the initial legislation to change the Judicial Selection Committee aren’t solved by the latest version
By ToI Staff
Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon (center) speaks at a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on January 16, 2023. (Dani Shem-Tov/Knesset)
January 16, 2023, 3:10 pm
Deputy AG: If reforms pass, ‘government won’t be above the law; it will be the law’
Gil Limon says coalition’s proposals seek to trample legal opposition; Justice Minister Levin accuses him of grandstanding, says comments underline imperative for reform
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Avital Sompolinsky, whose appointment as a deputy attorney-general was approved by the government on May 1, 2022. (Noam Moskowitz)
May 1, 2022, 2:48 pm
Cabinet approves appointment of Avital Sompolinsky as deputy AG
Three of the six deputies of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara — the first woman to fill the position — are female
By Rachel Bernstein
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