As part of what has been dubbed a “Gatekeepers” campaign, Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and her team are trying to convince us that Israeli democracy itself is under threat.

According to Baharav-Miara, if anyone were to dictate to her what to do and if (Heaven forbid) Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were to determine the agenda for the heads of the civil service or the Israel Security Agency (the Shin Bet) appointed to promote government policy, our country would be irrevocably changed.

In the AG’s fantasy world, the reality in which the prime minister and the Cabinet ministers actually run the country constitutes an imminent threat. According to her political theory, the government’s attempts to implement its policy and appoint people in line with its viewp

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