
Following the incitement and threats against her, mainly on social media, security around Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has been significantly increased, Channel 13 News reported on Monday.
According to the report, a meeting was held on Monday at the office of the Attorney General, with the participation of senior officials from the police and the Ministry of Justice, during which Baharav-Miara was presented with the level of threats and incitement against her. Following this, it was decided not to take a risk and to massively increase her security detail.
Senior officials in the law enforcement system said that recent statements by politicians have also played a part in the threats and incitement against Baharav-Miara, and the time has come for them to tone down their statements.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir this past Saturday night attacked Baharav-Miara, claiming that she prevented the government from acting after the attack in the Neve Ya'akov neighborhood in Jerusalem, in which seven people were murdered.
In a statement outside Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, the minister blasted the Attorney General and said, "I expected that there would already have been permission in the morning to seal the home [of the terrorist who carried out the attack]. To my amazement, to this moment she has not permitted us [to do it]. I think it's terrible. In my eyes, this not only does harm to me and the government, but to the citizens of Israel."
Baharav-Miara, for her part, argued that what Ben Gvir’s statement was not true. "As was made clear to Minister Ben Gvir by the professionals, action by the political echelon should be supported by a factual infrastructure, and he should present it. Accordingly, the completion of the defense establishment opinions was transferred to the Attorney General only an hour ago, and these are now being reviewed. The Attorney General will do everything possible to provide legal tools that will enable the implementation of the policy of the political echelon."