(Nov. 5, 2024 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tasked Justice Minister Yariv Levin on Monday with finding a solution to what he said was the ongoing opposition of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to his government.

His request followed a Cabinet discussion on Monday in which several government ministers expressed frustration with the attorney general, according to leaked reports of the meeting widely reported in the Hebrew press.

An adversarial relationship has long existed between the Attorney General’s Office and the government, sharpened by the latter’s failed judicial reform effort last year, which would have severely curtailed the attorney general’s influence.