Attorney General against MAHASH law: a poison pill that dismantles the unit from within

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Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara described the MAHASH law as a "poison pill" that dismantles the Police Internal Investigations Department from within. According to her, the law allows the persecution of police officers, prosecutors and journalists.

Baharav-Miara said the move was not intended to improve the law, but to change the operating principles of law enforcement in Israel from loyalty to the public to loyalty to the government. According to her, this is a fatal blow to the rule of law and to human rights.

At a Justice Ministry training session, the attorney general said that "whoever needs to be investigated will be investigated". In her remarks she also referred to the MAHASH law, repeating her description of it as a poison pill that dismantles the unit from within.