Ben-Gvir's policy document could effectively ban the large anti-government protests taking place in Tel Aviv every Saturday, and Ben-Gvir is threatening that it will go into effect within 24 hours if the attorney general doesn't change her position
Israel's attorney general told National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday that his policy document aimed at restricting the right to protest has no legal standing.
Attorney General Galia Baharv-Miara stressed that publishing the document without a proper consultation process with both the police commissioner and the Attorney General's Office would constitute "a blatant violation" of the principles agreed upon between her and Ben-Gvir as part of the High Court petitions against his appointment, and as a condition for his continued tenure as minister.
The attorney general reached an agreement with Ben-Gvir earlier this year limiting the minister's involvement in police appointments after petitions were filed in April to the High Court of Justice over his past interferences with police work.
Baharav-Miara further emphasized that if Ben-Gvir publishes the document, as he has threatened, it would exceed his authority as the minister in charge of the police. "All this, without detracting from other violations that have already occurred," she said.
