Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann supported the Right's contention that the justice system in Israel persecutes people who are not perceived as leftist enough, in an interview to Haaretz.
Friedmann delivered a long, crushing critique of the Supreme Court in the interview, which is the latest installment in the ongoing battle of titans between Friedmann and Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch. Among other things, he said the court should not have intervened on security matters such as the route of the security barrier; the law preventing "family unification" between Israeli Arabs and Arabs from Judea, Samaria and Gaza; the IDF procedure in which a local Arab is used as a shield when knocking on doors of suspected terrorists' homes, and the timetable for fortification of buildings in Sderot and the Gaza Perimeter.
He said that the State Prosecution is too eager to press charges against public figures, and noted the examples of former minister Aharon Abuhatzira, as well as Aryeh Deri, Reuven Rivlin and Avigdor Lieberman. As for the case against Chaim Ramon, his predecessor in the Justice Ministry: Friedmann says it was "not even a borderline case, but a sub-borderline case," and hints that the prosecutors' views may have affected their judgment.
Of the five cases mentioned above, only one – Ramon – is associated with the left wing Ashkenazi-secular elite. Abuhatzira and Deri are Sephardic and religious, and both represented Sephardic-religious parties. Reuven Rivlin was about to be appointed Justice Minister when he was served with an indictment he was exonerated from years later. The case against Avigdor Lieberman was dragged out for seven years before it was dropped.
"I am not talking about bribery cases, about a heavy and clear cut case with real evidence," Friedmann explained to his interviewers, who asked him whether he believed the prosecution behaved conspiratorially. "I
If [the public figure] is a person who belongs to one category then he is treated one way, and if he belongs to a different category then he is treated differently. 
am talking about borderline cases… When the prosecution has such wide latitude of action, even if the prosecutor is simply behaving as his conscience dictates, and especially if he is influenced by his attitude towards that public figure… then [the public figure] is treated differently. If he is a person who belongs to one category then he is treated one way, and if he belongs to a different category then he is treated differently. This is a very unhealthy situation."
Asked whether he is sure that this mode of action is used with people who are "disliked," Friedmann said: "I do not know. It is clear that the right wing feels that they are treated more severely."
"We need to select judges with a different judicial attitude from the one that is currently prevalent in the Supreme Court… The judges currently in office are from a certain milieu, they live in their milieu and they don't see the public." Friedmann noted retired Judge Menachem Elon as a positive example of a judge who did not favor "judicial activism" like the current court does, and was more moderate.
Judge Elon is a religious man, and his son, Benny Elon, is an MK for the National Union / National Religious Party.
Minister Friedmann himself, an Israel Prize winning professor of law, is considered to hold political views that are left of center.