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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 644

Justice Ministry

Likud MK Moshe Saada leads a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset on May 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 20, 2025, 2:18 pm
Likud MK revives bill handing justice minister control over probes into cops, prosecutors
Sponsor Moshe Saada says bill aims to ‘watch the watchmen’; opposition lawmakers, legal professionals say legislation part of coalition efforts to politicize law enforcement bodies
By Charlie Summers
L: National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); R: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)
April 29, 2025, 4:17 pm
AG reaches compromise with Ben Gvir on national security minister’s powers
Far-right leader agrees to curb his interference in police promotions and operational matters, in bid to fend off legal challenges to his tenure
By Charlie Summers
The Police Internal Investigations Department in Jerusalem, photographed on July 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
April 14, 2025, 10:03 pm
New national security affair being probed; details barred from publication
Reports say affair will increase already bubbling tensions between political echelon and law enforcement agencies; separately, Shin Bet chief Bar said set to resign in coming weeks
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog attend a memorial ceremony for Ethiopians who died on their journey to Israel, Mount Herzl, on June 5, 2024 (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
March 13, 2025, 7:59 pm
Herzog reportedly tried to influence, shorten proceedings in Netanyahu graft case
Newspaper says president repeatedly attempted to push AG to reach plea deal with PM, grant his requests to delay testimony; Herzog’s office, Justice Ministry decline to comment
By ToI Staff
Justice Minister Yariv Levin (L) at the Knesset in Jerusalem on September 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Acting Supreme Court Chief Justice Uzi Vogelman speaks at the Israel Bar Association's annual conference in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 24, 2024, 7:19 pm
10 Supreme Court justices seek to retract their imposed candidacies for president
Justice Minister Levin nominated all 12 judges without their consent in protest against court ordering him to appoint new president when he doesn’t want to
By Jeremy Sharon
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
Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, former grand mufti of Jerusalem, who is under investigation for incitement. (AP/Joao Silva)
June 27, 2024, 6:30 pm
Al-Aqsa imam indicted on charges of incitement to terrorism
Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, former mufti of Jerusalem, is accused of praising terror attacks in 2022 in which four Israelis were killed; he says charges are ‘fabricated’
By AFP
Ultra-Orthodox Jews arrive at the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, in central Israel, March 28, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
April 26, 2024, 10:55 am
Government asks High Court to again delay mandatory conscription of ultra-Orthodox
Justice Ministry seeks deferral until May 20, arguing that ‘significant national-security events’ — Iran’s attack likely among them — preventing it from developing new policy
By Reuters and ToI Staff
The Justice Ministry in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 6, 2024, 11:57 am
Justice Ministry reviewing ‘cyber incident’ after hacktivists claim breach
Group protesting Gaza war says it retrieved hundreds of gigabytes of data, publishes what it calls confidential documents; ministry says operations remained uninterrupted
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Families of Israelis who were murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival place pictures of their loved ones outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 17, 2024, 8:10 pm
How can Israel bring the arrested October 7 terrorists to justice?
Due to high number of suspects awaiting trial over the Hamas onslaught, Israel struggles to find the right method of trying them without stalling the system
By AP and ToI Staff
A Palestinian stands on an Israeli tank at the border fence near the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after some 3,000 Hamas terrorists burst through the border and entered Israel, slaughtering some 1,200 people, October 7, 2023. (Yousef Mohammed/Flash90)
November 3, 2023, 1:31 pm
Israel said likely to form tribunal to try Hamas terrorists for October 7 atrocities
Legal authorites reportedly discussing the correct way to bring to justice the over 200 terrorists detained in Israel
By ToI Staff
Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara and Justice Minister Yariv Levin during a weekly cabinet meeting, held on this occasion at the Western Wall tunnels on May 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 31, 2023, 1:24 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 31: Justice minister says AG is not doing her job. What now?
Legal affairs reporter Jeremy Sharon and analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discuss Yariv Levin’s frustration with government’s top lawyer and Justice Yosef Elron’s bid to lead High Court
By ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen during a meeting with police officers from the Yasam riot control unit, in Tel Aviv on August 2, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 2, 2023, 11:56 pm
Ben Gvir: Probes into alleged police brutality are attempt to ‘threaten’ cops
‘You are our heroes,’ minister tells under-fire Yasam cops, says he has seen no excessive use of force by officers; state attorney rejects ‘effort to besmirch’ PIID investigators
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)
July 18, 2023, 12:45 pm
AG: Office facing pressure in criminal cases, and over certain legal positions
Baharav-Miara vows to ‘continue to operate as always’; last month, ministers slammed her for alleged soft approach to protesters
By Jeremy Sharon
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)
July 10, 2023, 5:52 am
Herzog blasts ‘unrestrained’ attack on attorney general by ministers at cabinet meet
President says extended lambasting of civil servants ‘intolerable and unacceptable’ following hours-long, raucous meeting where several ministers called for Baharav-Miara’s ouster
By ToI Staff
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