The Israeli government is scheduled to discuss the proposed dismissal of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara during the regular Sunday Cabinet meeting on March 23.
Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s March 5 motion of no-confidence in Baharav-Miara will be discussed at the first Cabinet meeting set to take place after the Purim holiday, it became known on Monday.
Levin announced proceedings last week to dismiss Baharav-Miara, accusing her of being “the long arm of the government’s opponents.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has lost confidence in Baharav-Miara “in light of her inappropriate conduct and substantial and prolonged differences of opinion between her and the government, creating a situation preventing effective cooperation,” Levin wrote to Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs.
Baharav-Miara has spared “no effort to thwart the will of the voter,” the justice minister charged in the letters, accusing her of using the political divide in the country “as a spade to build up two legal systems—one for the government’s supporters and the other for its opponents.”
Levin in the missives asked Ohana and Fuchs to fill the empty positions on the public committee for appointing and dismissing the attorney general, as well as to place the issue on the Cabinet’s agenda as soon as possible.
After his announcement, Levin published a photo of an 800-page file that he said contained complaints about Baharav-Miara’s conduct.
Under the law, Baharav-Miara does not work for the premier, as opposed to in the United States, where the attorney general is an agent of the executive branch. Netanyahu has often clashed with Baharav-Miara, who was appointed by then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in 2022.
Leaders of left-wing protests against the government’s judicial reform plans held a mass rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, some 17 months after changing the focus of their demonstrations to Netanyahu’s conduct in the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“Just as we stopped the coup in 2023 and just as we enlisted in the military and reserves and stopped the collapse of the state in 2024, so in 2025 we will prevent destruction again and stop the coup and the abandonment of the hostages,” protest groups said in a statement.
The protest gathered at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square and then marched to join the hostages’ protest outside the Kirya military headquarters.
Meanwhile, presidents of eight Israeli universities warned on Sunday of an “unprecedented danger to the rule of law” and said they would go on strike if the government dismissed Baharav-Miara.
“The attorney general is the most important guardian against potential harm by the government of the rights of the citizens and individual residents in the country,” read the letter, which was signed by all institutions for higher education except Ariel University in Samaria.
Netanyahu tasked Levin in November with finding a solution to what he described as adversarial legal advice from the attorney general, after pausing the judicial reform drive in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
“Following severe criticism by the government ministers of the attorney general, the prime minister clarified that the attorney general is expected to assist the government in implementing the government’s decisions and promoting bills on its behalf—and not the other way around,” Netanyahu said following a Cabinet discussion that month. JNS
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