Ministers castigate AG at cabinet meeting, demand protest crackdown, urge her removal

A succession of ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline government derided and denounced Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara during a raucous, hours-long cabinet meeting on Sunday, in which she was repeatedly attacked over authorities’ handling of lawbreaking during demonstrations against the government. Several calls were made for her dismissal.

Netanyahu started off what became an angry and tempestuous debate by telling Baharav-Miara that “selective enforcement is a fatal wound to democracy,” and his ministers soon piled on to castigate the attorney general over the issue.

Baharav-Miara and other senior officials in the Justice Ministry were summoned to Sunday’s cabinet meeting to discuss how law enforcement agencies have dealt with the massive wave of protests against the government’s efforts to overhaul the judiciary, which have included blocking highways and other forms of civil disobedience. READ MORE