In her unceasing corruption and chutzpah, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara refuses to give up on her obsessive quest to thwart the appointment of incoming Mossad chief Roman Gofman, even after he was twice cleared of wrongdoing by the senior appointments advisory committee, and after she herself came under attack for her underhanded efforts to smear him.

Baharav-Miara submitted her unequivocal position to the High Court on Thursday morning, supporting the petitioners against the government and calling for the invalidation of Gofman’s appointment.

In her letter, she not only attacked Gofman but slammed the opinion of the three committee members who twice approved his appointment, claiming that their opinion is biased, and therefore is “illegal.”

She asked the court to disqualify the majority opinion and rely on the minority opinion of the committee chairman, former High Court President Asher Grunis, and disqualify Gofman’s appointment.

However, Baharav-Miara failed to mention Grunis’s updated position, which does not recommend disqualifying Gofman but rather that the matter should be more deeply examined.

It should be noted that the committee members themselves questioned Grunis’s integrity, saying he issued his opinion without even reviewing key evidence. They noted that Grunis admitted during a May 24 hearing that he had not read the WhatsApp messages — evidence the committee itself had requested and which the majority considers “the best and only evidence” for examining the matter. “This is regrettable,” the committee members stated.

One of the committee members, Prof. Talia Einhorn, 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.”

Channel 12 journalist Amit Segal accused the Attorney General of lying, corruption, and a blood libel, writing: “The number of substantive flaws committed by Baharav-Miara exceeded any flaws Goman was (falsely) accused of: deliberately delaying her response, submitting her opinion only to former Supreme Court President Asher Grunis, and lying to the media that no such opinion existed.”

Gofman submitted his response to the court following Baharav-Miara’s submission, writing: “The single question mark that stood before the court has become a clear exclamation mark, removing any shadow of doubt that no flaw whatsoever was found in the respondent’s integrity.

“In any case, there is no basis for such extraordinary and extreme judicial intervention, and the petitions should be dismissed in full, with the petitioners ordered to pay legal costs.”

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)