The Thorn in Benjamin Netanyahu's Side

Attorney General of Israel Gali Baharav-Miara.

America and Israel are both ruled by leaders with autocratic ambitions. Only one country has an attorney general putting the law above loyalty

By Yossi Melman

In August 2025, an aide to Yariv Levin, Israel’s minister of justice, cautiously made his way up to the ninth floor of a government office building in central Tel Aviv. Satisfied he was unobserved, he slipped into the office of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and, with the quick, practiced precision of a locksmith, changed the locks.

The minister and the attorney general had shared this very office when they traveled from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv for hearings and consultations. Two of Israel’s most powerful legal figures, they worked in proximity, if not in harmony. Now, without warning, Baharav-Miara had been shut out—literally. READ ON