Israel’s legal establishment was never elected by the public. Yet more and more Israelis feel that it now behaves as though it sits above the public, above ministers, and even above the government itself.

Let’s stop pretending this is normal!

Because what is happening in Israel is not a routine legal dispute. It is not a technical argument between professionals. It is not some dry constitutional seminar. It is a power struggle over one basic question: who actually runs the State of Israel? The people and the government they elected, or a legal elite that was never elected by anyone? The Justice Ministry itself defines the Attorney General as the head of the executive branch’s legal system, and the government formally voted no confidence in Gali Baharav-Miara in March 2025, arguing that the relationship had broken down in a deep and prolonged way.

That alone should have set off alarms across the country.

Because an Attorney General is supposed to advise the government, not govern it. She is supposed to help elected officials act within the law, not gradually turn herself into a veto center above them. But that is exactly how millions of Israelis now see this office: not as legal counsel, but as an unelected ruling mechanism. And the more this system expands its reach, the less it looks like oversight and the more it looks like political control.

And then came the affair around the former Military Advocate General.

This is........

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