Yossi Fuchs, the Chairman of the Legal Forum for Israel, sent a letter to Labor Chairman Yitzhak Herzog Sunday, demanding that Herzog reveal his role in an alleged corruption affair with former Prime Minister Ehud Barak to the public before the upcoming 2015 elections.
Fuchs, who will run in the Jewish Home primaries, referred to a statement Herzog made recently about his silence over the issue, whereby he said that "today, I would have acted differently."
Fuchs ordered Herzog to set the record straight about what Herzog did or did not say to the police over Barak's investments, so that the public can judge for themselves whether or not Herzog is a moral candidate for Prime Minister.
Fuchs stressed in his letter that revealing the truth to the public does not present Herzog with the risk of criminal prosecution because the statute of limitation on all counts against him has expired in this case, and therefore if he continues to this day to remain silent, ''this means Herzog is afraid of revealing the truth to the public and thus lends [it to the] opinion [that he] does not deserve to be prime minister of Israel."
Fuchs has given Herzog five days to respond to the letter, as all parties are required to submit their names for the Knesset elections lists within the next month, and time is at stake.
Herzog's decision to remain silent amid a major corruption scandal surrounding Barak in the early 2000s was a controversy in itself, whereby both parties were accused of meddling in the elections process.
Herzog's refusal to provide information lingered in the Israeli public's consciousness, even inspiring criticism over it relatively recently, including a tirade against him by then-Opposition leader Tzipi Livni in 2009.
Herzog and Livni are now running partners for Labor in the upcoming elections, and Livni insists that their differences are behind them.
The letter also surfaces just three days after Dr. Aryeh Bachrach, head of the Almagor Terror Victims' Association Bereaved Parents' Forum, told Arutz Sheva that in his view, Herzog is a "criminal until proven otherwise" for remaining silent in the case.