Itamar Ben-Gvir alleges Attorney General Baharav-Miara and ex-MAG Tomer-Yerushalmi concealed explosive evidence linking Israel’s judicial elite to Deep State crimes.
At a fiery Otzma Yehudit faction meeting, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir unleashed a political storm, directly accusing Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara of obstructing justice and shielding former Military Advocate General (MAG) Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi in what he described as “the Deep State’s dirtiest affair.”
Ben-Gvir referenced the Sde Teiman scandal and the mysterious disappearance of Tomer-Yerushalmi’s mobile phone — reportedly lost after she vanished for several hours at a Tel Aviv beach on Sunday. According to the minister, that missing phone may contain “earth-shaking evidence” exposing criminal misconduct at the highest levels of Israel’s justice system.
“As I speak, a lady sits in the Justice Ministry shaking from fear — afraid the phone will be found,” Ben-Gvir said. “It has proof of serious crimes. This lady is named Gali Baharav-Miara.”
The minister alleged that Baharav-Miara, who he said is “neck-deep in the affair,” actively worked to protect Tomer-Yerushalmi from prosecution to prevent damage to what he called the Deep State’s prestige.
“The MAG didn’t lose her phone by accident,” Ben-Gvir declared. “When the data on that phone is revealed, the earth under Israel’s Deep State will quake.”
Ben-Gvir further charged that the Attorney General personally submitted a “false affidavit” to the Supreme Court, conspiring with Tomer-Yerushalmi to falsify investigative findings and grant “celebrity-style immunity” to key suspects.
He called on police investigators to “withstand sabotage attempts” and recover the missing phone’s contents, predicting that its restoration would open “a Pandora’s Box” exposing years of judicial corruption aimed at discrediting the IDF and Israel’s combat soldiers.
“This began as an attempt by the IDF’s own legal leadership to tarnish our heroic fighters,” Ben-Gvir thundered. “But the truth will emerge — and it will shake the system to its core.”
In closing, Ben-Gvir highlighted legislative progress on the Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill, which advanced through the Knesset’s National Security Committee earlier in the day. The proposal allows capital punishment for terrorists convicted of murdering Israeli citizens out of nationalist or racist motives.
“Every terrorist should know: when he comes to murder, he faces only one sentence — death,” the minister declared, vowing that justice will no longer bend to “elite hypocrisy or international pressure.”
