Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has entered a new confrontation with the government after notifying the Ministry of Finance that she opposes a key clause in the proposed 2026 budget law concerning reserve-duty mobilization.
The clause would shift the call-up of reservists from emergency mobilization procedures to a permanent, regulated framework, allowing up to 70 days of reserve duty per year. Baharav-Miara warned that the move is unconstitutional and violates the Supreme Court’s equality-of-burden ruling, which demands fair and balanced distribution of national service obligations.
The dispute escalated further after Minister Gideon Sa’ar launched a fierce attack on the Attorney General for requesting an additional discussion on a separate Supreme Court ruling issued by a three-judge panel concerning the appointment of the Military Advocate General.
Sa’ar condemned her request as “a professional and moral low point,” noting that the Court itself found that the Attorney General and senior prosecutors have “a broad institutional conflict of interest” in handling the case.
He went even further, saying: “It is clear that public confidence does not interest this gang at all. There is something else here: an open desire to whitewash and prevent the exposure of the truth. This time it won’t work.”