The contents of a classified affidavit submitted by Brig. Gen. “G” to the High Court has been revealed, and the document fully supports the version of events presented by the incoming Mossad chief, Roman Gofman, i24NEWS reported.

Following the revelation, the High Court ordered the Attorney General to immediately transfer the classified affidavit to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and to Gofman himself, and to update the justices once the transfer had been completed.

The dramatic disclosure is a major setback for Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara in her obsessive quest to thwart Gofman’s appointment, as the new information makes it likely that the judges will rule against the petitions against him.

G. is the military intelligence officer who questioned Gofman about the case of the underage blogger Ori Elmakayes. The petitions against Gofman claimed that he lied to G. about whether he was aware that Elmakayes was a minor. However, according to G.’s affidavit, he did not question Gofman about that detail, adding that both Gofman and he himself were not even aware of Elmakayes’s identity.

The development comes after the Attorney General submitted the affidavit to the court on Motzei Shabbos as part of the petitions challenging Gofman’s appointment as Mossad chief, alongside a request to attach additional classified materials to the case.

Adv. Harel Arnon, representing Netanyahu and the state, filed a sharply worded response to the court, attacking Baharav-Miara for her scandulous conduct and extreme violation of accepted legal procedures.

“The freedom the Attorney General takes upon herself to prevent the Prime Minister of Israel and his legal representatives from reviewing materials deemed ‘classified’ is both inconceivable and scandalous,” Arnon wrote.

“There is no classified material in the State of Israel that someone is authorized to see while the prime minister is barred from seeing it.”

Arnon accused the Attorney General of “procedural audacity of the highest order,” saying that she is attempting to submit materials that were never presented to the advisory committee and that she had previously sought to submit but was denied in an attempt to “drag out the proceedings endlessly.”

The defense team for Respondents 1–2 also criticized the Attorney General’s disregard for the judiciary. “The conduct of the Attorney General in these proceedings is astonishing,” the response states. “She allows herself to do whatever she wishes in order to thwart the appointment under discussion, the normal rules of procedure, and what remains of public trust.”

It should be noted that Prof. Talia Einhorn, a member of the advisory committee for senior appointments, publicly posted her support of Gofman’s appointment and slammed Baharav-Miara for her intervention, saying that the material that the committee reviewed proved Gofman’s integrity, and in a barb aimed at Baharav Miara, wrote: “From what emerged during and after the High Court hearing, it appears that serious flaws in the integrity of others were revealed, while Gofman’s integrity remains intact.”

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)