Gali Baharav Miyara This evening (Sunday), she submitted her response to the High Court of Justice regarding petitions filed against the Minister of Justice. Yariv Levin - After he ordered the lock on his office to be changed to prevent the ousted attorney general from accessing the office.
In her response, Bahar Meyara noted that since the beginning of her term, she has continued the practice that has existed for at least a decade, according to which the Attorney General and his team use an office complex in the Government Building in Tel Aviv, which includes the offices of the Minister of Justice and the Director General of the ministry, on days when it is not staffed.
According to her, the use was done in coordination with the minister's office and the director general's office, with her herself sitting in the justice minister's office and her office staff in the other offices in the complex. "Only after the government's decision, and in direct connection with it, was a unilateral decision made, without any explanation, regarding the locking of the minister's office," wrote Baharav Mayara.
She emphasized that the described incident contradicts judicial orders issued by the High Court, in particular a directive stating that existing work procedures should not be changed.
She added: "It appears that its purpose is an attempt to harm the status of the legal advisor to the government and her professional work.".
Avishai Greenzig, The legal commentator for the i24 channel commented on Baharav Miyara's response: "It's unbelievable that almost all the senior officials of the High Court of Justice department at the Attorney General's Office and the Office of the Advocate General and her deputies worked on this response from morning until midnight, 7 hours late from the deadline for submission.".
Regarding the response itself, he wrote on his X-network account: "The advisor claims that the refusal to allow her to continue working in the office - which she admits is the minister's office and not a joint office - constitutes a violation of her work procedures vis-à-vis the government, and therefore constitutes a violation of Judge Solberg's judicial order.
""This is such a forced and absurd interpretation. Even the petitioners did not make this ridiculous claim, and were forced to claim that it was a joint office (and I will remind you that the press publication was about it being the Office of the Advocate General in general).
""She herself says that her meeting in Levin's office requires prior coordination and approval - how can the minister be forced to agree to such a thing, and what does this have to do with not violating her powers and the validity of her legal opinions?""
Earlier today, Levin submitted a strong response to the High Court of Justice - clarifying that his office in Tel Aviv is an office that belongs exclusively to him.
Levin criticized the Supreme Court's priorities, claiming that it deals with marginal issues instead of substantive civil rights issues.
The Minister of Justice even criticized the decision to assign an expanded panel of nine judges to this issue: "The fact that nine Supreme Court judges are required for this matter is something that will be remembered as one of the strangest events in the history of the law.".
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