Judge Orders Police to Explain Why Attorney General Was Not Investigated in Sde Teiman Affair

High Court Justice Noam Sohlberg ordered the police commissioner to urgently respond to a petition filed by MK Avichai Boaron and the Lavie organization. They want a formal explanation for why no criminal investigation was opened against Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara over allegations that she acted with a severe conflict of interest in the Sde Teiman case.

According to the petition, Baharav-Miara continued to oversee and make critical decisions in the affair even though she and her team were allegedly clearly disqualified from doing so. Sohlberg's decision puts a spotlight on one of the country’s most sensitive disputes and forces the Israel Police to account for how it handles complaints against the top of the legal system.

Boaron responded with a sharp attack on the attorney general and on what he called police foot-dragging. “The police can no longer roll their eyes,” he said. “Despite her duty, Miara did not inform the Justice Ministry’s attorney, Kotik, in time that her team was barred, and she continued to run the investigation in its most critical days. She failed in fraud and breach of trust, and she must answer for it.”

The petition seeks to end what its authors describe as an automatic immunity enjoyed by senior officials. It asks that Baharav-Miara’s conduct be examined using ordinary criminal tools, the same way any citizen or elected official would be investigated. The court’s order now requires the police to provide those answers.