In the wake of the hearing held on Tuesday for Ari Rosenfeld [previously known as Sgt. A.], the reserve IDF officer who was accused of leaking documents to the Prime Minister’s Office and has been imprisoned for over two months, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir slammed Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara and State Prosecutor Amit Aisman for selective enforcement. “Just a reminder: Gilad Kariv [who allegedly leaked information from a classified Knesset meeting to the media] has not been investigated,” Ben-Gvir said. “Nor has Yair Golan, who called for refusal and publicly threatened the police commissioner. The prosecution led by Baharav-Miara and Aisman is political from head to toe.” The incident that Ben-Gvir is referring to happened over a year ago. In December 2023, reports were published in Maariv and Walla that included quotes from a protocol of a meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in June 2023. The reports claimed that the quotes proved that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was aware of the danger of a Hamas attack on Israel. Following the reports, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana asked the Knesset Officer to investigate the leak. The week-long investigation, which involved accessing security cameras and other evidence, revealed that the only person who reviewed the leaked protocol in the six months from the meeting until the reports were published was Labor MK Gilad Kariv. Kariv reviewed the protocol twice, shortly before the quotes appeared in the media. Ohana immediately sent the findings to Baharav-Miara, asking her to launch a criminal investigation into the leak but no action was taken. In recent months, the Lavi Civil Rights organization filed a complaint to the Supreme Court against Baharav-Miara and Aisman, stating that the accusations against Kariv of espionage and unauthorized disclosure of classified information during wartime are extremely serious, warranting an immediate criminal investigation. The complaint emphasized that that the offenses that Kariv allegedly committed are far more serious than those allegedly committed by Eli Feldstein and Ari Rosenfeld but the prosecution has yet to even order an investigation. Finally, after the Supreme Court held a hearing on the Lavi organization’s claim, the State Prosecution responded to the Supreme Court this past Thursday that a preliminary investigation has been opened against Kariv “but a final decision has not yet been reached regarding launching a criminal investigation.” In other words, Baharav-Miara and Aisman have completely ignored the request to investigate Kariv, perhaps because they were too busy fighting against lomdei Torah, ensuring that Nukhba terrorists are treated humanely in Israeli jails, and examining the launch of criminal investigations against anyone who criticized “innocent” Gazan civilians. Following the response to the Supreme Court, Ohana excoriated Barhav-Miara, stating: “The Attorney General is trying to bury the case of MK Gilad Kariv’s leak. There is no other way to describe the shameful response she sent to the Supreme Court today, a year after I approached her about the matter. Is it possible that ‘preliminary investigations’ are only being conducted now? Is it possible that what took the Knesset Officer a week to investigate and identify the source of the leak is something that the Israel Police has been unable to do for an entire year?” “It’s unfathomable that this woman who takes the law into her own hands threatened the Knesset Officer who acted […]