The Israeli Attorney General orders an investigation into the Sarah Netanyahu case

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

Thursday’s decision by Gali Baharav Meara and State Attorney General Amit Eisman cited an Israeli television investigation alleging that Sara Netanyahu organized a campaign of demonstrations and attacks on social media against the prime minister’s “enemies.”

The report claimed that the targets included the former Attorney General who indicted Benjamin Netanyahu; The lead prosecutor at the trial; Hadas Klein is a witness in one of the cases.

Klein and several others filed police complaints against Sara Netanyahu following the broadcast of the report.

Benjamin Netanyahu He is on trial on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in connection with allegations of trading with wealthy benefactors, and began this month. He testified in his defense.

Earlier on Thursday, IsraelThe country’s prime minister posted a scathing four-minute video attacking “the left and the media” for committing “character assassination” and “blood slander” against him and his wife.

“There are no limits to lies. There are no limits to sordid imagination, out-of-context facts, fake news and brainwashing.”

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

Yariv Levin, the justice minister, criticized the prosecutor via the Telegram app for “extremely selective enforcement,” which he described as a “crime.” He denied these accusations and described them as “television rumours.”

Israeli Parliament Speaker Amir Ohana said on Facebook that Baharav Mayara’s motives are political, claiming that she is “lazy, blind, deaf and dumb when it comes to (investigations against) her political side.”

Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, called for the dismissal of Bhairav ​​Meara. “A person who politically persecutes government ministers and their families cannot continue to serve as a prosecutor,” he wrote on X.

Over the past two years, Baharav Meara has criticized the Netanyahu government’s attempts to reform the country’s judicial system, a move that critics see as a power grab that could harm the country’s democracy.

It remains unclear whether and how the police will act on the directive to open an investigation into Sara Netanyahu.

In a further complication, Police Commissioner Danny Levy was also implicated in the TV investigation.