After Internal Affairs Law Passes, Saada Says the System Was Swerved to Target Netanyahu

MK Moshe Saada (Likud) opened Thursday morning in an especially combative tone, just hours after the bill on the Police Internal Investigations Department that he promoted was finally approved in the Knesset plenum in its second and third readings. Saada, a former deputy head of the Police Investigations Department who left the unit on acrimonious terms, chose to link the move directly to the prime minister’s cases.

"Good morning, citizens of Israel. I promised and I delivered," Saada wrote on his X account, formerly Twitter, as he celebrated severing the unit from the State Attorney’s Office. "The law will take the Police Internal Investigations Department out of the hands of the State Attorney’s Office, and it will be reestablished as an independent body that will do justice and not persecute people."

He then launched a frontal attack on the law enforcement system and the State Attorney’s Office, declaring that the motivation behind the system’s conduct in recent years had been political. "The correction of the system that veered off course because of the desire to intercept Prime Minister Netanyahu has begun," Saada charged, ending with a sharp message: "There are no more criminals serving the law, there are no people above the law, and everyone is equal before the law."

The new law, which removes the Police Internal Investigations Department from the State Attorney’s Office and turns it into an independent body, continues to provoke strong opposition among opposition figures and former senior legal officials. They warn that detaching it from the professional system could lead to the politicization of sensitive investigations, דווקא at a time when the police and their commanders are at the center of public storm.