Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara asked former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar to provide her with materials concerning National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s involvement in police operations, i24News revealed on Tuesday evening.

According to the report, she made the request in order to use the information as part of the state’s response to petitions by left-wing organizations to the Supreme Court calling for Ben-Gvir’s dismissal.

The current revelation sheds new light on a report published about a year ago by Channel 12 journalist Amit Segal, who disclosed that Ronen Bar had instructed Shin Bet personnel to collect information on Minister Ben Gvir’s conduct in relation to the police.

It now emerges that the move began, at least in part, following a direct request from Baharav-Miara, who sought to build a factual basis against the minister for legal proceedings.

Despite these efforts, the initial findings gathered by the Shin Bet reportedly failed to substantiate the suspicions Ronen Bar had sought to verify. However, Bar did not close the trumped-up case and instead instructed his staff to expand and deepen the investigation into the alleged “infiltration of Kahanism” into the police order to produce more significant findings. To the disappointment of Baharav-Miara and Bar, no findings were found that would justify a criminal case against Ben Gvir.

The Attorney General’s Office declined to comment on the report.

Amit Segal responded to the report: “The secret security service is searching for and collecting material against the political leadership, under instructions from the Attorney General and the head of the prosecution, for the purpose of a petition seeking to dismiss that same political leadership.”

Likud MK Moshe Saada stated: “Gali Baharav-Miara is joining forces with the head of the secret service in order to remove a sitting minister, all out of a desire to carry out a governmental coup by criminal means.

“This is what it looks like when the deep state tries to bring down a government. I call on the Justice Minister to act and appoint an external prosecutor who will order a criminal investigation against Gali Baharav-Miara and her partners in this alleged criminal conspiracy. We’re done staying silent. We will dismantle the deep state and return the power to the people.”

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)