Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara’s office has expressed concern that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is deliberately stalling on appointing a new legal adviser to the Prime Minister’s Office in order to keep the position unfilled, which might reduce the constraints on the actions of his office.

In a letter filed on the attorney general’s behalf on Sunday, Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon told a deputy director of the PMO that there was “no reason or justification” for the failure to begin the process of finding a new legal adviser, and said the hiring process should be advanced “urgently.”

Current PMO legal adviser Shlomit Barnea Farago, who is retiring in March, told the PMO director in December that procedures for replacing her should begin, but officials in the PMO have failed to request the necessary arrangements from the Civil Service Commission to initiate the process.

According to a report by Channel 12 News, Barnea Farargo, who........

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