The Movement for Quality Government in Israel today, 5 October 2025, filed an urgent request with the Supreme Court to issue an additional interim order that would prohibit the government from carrying out any action that violates the powers of the attorney general, Adv. Gali Baharav-Miara, until the ruling in the petition is issued. The Movement also asks the court to turn the conditional orders issued on 1 September 2025 into absolute orders, and to issue a final judgment annulling the government’s decisions to dismiss the attorney general.
The request is submitted in light of a series of blatant and repeated violations by the government of judicial orders issued by the Supreme Court on 18 July 2025, 4 August 2025, 10 August 2025 and 1 September 2025. In each of the orders, the court explicitly ordered that there was no change regarding the authority of the attorney general, and that the normative status of the opinions of the attorney general’s office and the decisions of the prosecution authorities remains unchanged.
The latest and most serious violation occurred this week, on 1 November 2025, when Justice Minister Levin wrote to the attorney general in which, lackingn any authority granted to him by law, he prohibited her from dealing with the leak of the video of the abuse of a terrorist at Sde Teiman, an affair following which the military advocate general resigned. Minister Levin even added that in her place he would appoint another civil servant to be in charge of the decisions in the affair. Minister Levin has no legal authority to determine that the attorney general is prevented from discussing a particular issue, not even by virtue of section 23a of the Civil Service Law.
The Movement emphasizes that the numerous serious violations are nothing more than an improper and dangerous attempt to ignore judicial orders and to present the court with a done and irreversible act, challenging the attorney general and stripping her of her powers in a manner that leads, in practice, to the completion of her unlawful dismissal process. Therefore, the Movement requested that an additional interim order be issued that would prevent damaging the attorney general’s powers in the criminal field as well, and that a ruling be issued against the attorney general’s dismissal.
Adv. Dr. Eliad Shraga, chair of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel: “We have never witnessed such a grave litany of repeated and blatant violations of court decisions. The government is working to establish irreversible facts on the ground while fundamentally undermining judicial authority and the rule of law, which culminated in the latest, baseless demand that she not engage in the investigation of the military advocate general. This political interference in an ongoing criminal investigation is an attack on the core of democracy. Any further action to trample on the powers of the attorney general will likely lead to immediate and serious damage to the independence of the legal advisory institution and the system of checks and balances in Israel’s constitutional regime. This process must not be allowed to continue for another moment.”