The Israeli attorney general orders an investigation into Sara Netanyahu

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Israel’s attorney general has ordered an investigation into Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister’s wife, on suspicion of persecuting witnesses and obstructing justice in her husband’s corruption cases.

Thursday’s decision by Gali Baharav-Miara and state prosecutor Amit Aisman cited an Israeli television investigation that said Sara Netanyahu organized a protest campaign and social media attacks against the prime minister’s “enemies”.

The report said the victims included former attorney general-indictment Benjamin Netanyahu; the lead prosecutor in the case; and Hadas Klein, a witness in one of those cases.

Klein and several others filed police complaints against Sara Netanyahu after the report was published.

Benjamin Netanyahu He is on trial on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust related to allegations of dealing with wealthy individuals, and this month he began. to testify in his defense.

Earlier on Thursday, IsraelThe prime minister released a scathing four-minute video attacking the “left and the media” for committing “murder” and “blood libels” against him and his wife.

“There is no limit to lies. There is no limit to reprehensible fabrications, facts that are excluded, fake news, perjury,” he said.

Netanyahu’s government ministers and political allies also reacted angrily to the decision to call for an investigation.

Yariv Levin, the minister of justice, criticized the Telegraph’s attorney general for the “highly selective action”, which he called “criminal”. He dismissed the allegations as “television gossip”.

The speaker of the Israeli parliament, Amir Ohana, said on Facebook that Baharav-Miara’s motivation was political, saying that she is “lazy and suffers from blindness, deafness and dumbness when it comes to (research) which are against) his political side”.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Minister of National Security, called for Baharav-Miara to be deported. “A person who persecutes government ministers and their families politically cannot continue to serve as attorney general,” he wrote in X.

Baharav-Miara two years ago criticized the Netanyahu government’s attempts to reform the country’s judicial system, which critics see as a power grab that could undermine the country’s democracy.

It is still unclear how the police will act on the order to open an investigation into Sara Netanyahu.

In another twist, police commissioner Danny Levy was also involved in the television investigation.