The High Court on Monday afternoon rejected the petitions against the appointment of Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman as the next chief of the Mossad after a protracted legal battle and relentless attempts by Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to thwart it.

Gofman is expected to enter his position on Tuesday.

Even after Gofman 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 continued to demand that his appointment be revoked.

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.”

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)