In a letter to fellow coalition party chiefs urging them to back the move, Ben Gvir claimed Baharav-Miara’s approach since the December 29 establishment of the hardline coalition has been to “automatically reject any decision or bill backed by the government or those related to it.”
While members of the ruling coalition have been regularly criticizing Baharav-Miara and have even hinted at a desire to remove her as attorney general, Ben Gvir became the first to openly make such a call.
“I am aware of the legal difficulty in firing her, but the damage the attorney general is causing every day she remains in her role is immeasurably greater,” charged Ben Gvir, who heads the far-right Otzma Yehudit party.
The national security minister claimed that Baharav-Miara was appointed by the previous unity government “under questionable circumstances,” but that, unlike her conduct over the past two and a half months, she had served as a rubber stamp for the previous cabinet, backing its maritime agreement with Lebanon and appointment of IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, major decisions that had taken place during the last coalition’s caretaker phase. READ MORE
