In a High Court filing on Thursday, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara said National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir systematically abuses his powers, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must be ordered to explain why he hasn’t fired him.

The request is the latest in a long series of disputes between the attorney general and the national security minister, who oversees the police. A month ago, Baharav-Miara endorsed petitions calling for Ben Gvir’s dismissal, and the two have clashed over a range of issues.

According to Channel 13, the hearing on the matter will take place on January 15 in front of a panel of the High Court’s three most senior justices — Supreme Court President Isaac Amit and Justices Noam Solberg and Daphne Barak-Erez — with the possibility that more justices may be included. The report added that the Court may issue a conditional order on the matter before the hearing.

Baharav-Miara has previously accused the far-right minister of exercising undue influence over the police, a force meant to operate independently, and has said that he has violated a compromise the two agreed on last year. Ben Gvir has maintained that he is fulfilling the will of the voters who elected him and branded the attorney general a “criminal.”

Now, she is calling on the court to force Netanyahu “to explain why he is not removing National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir from his position.”

Through a “continuous (sometimes sophisticated) system of pressure” on police officers, Ben Gvir has inappropriately intervened in the force’s operations concerning anti-government protesters, the status quo on the Temple Mount and protection for Gaza-bound aid trucks, the attorney general wrote in a 68-page opinion on the petitions calling for Ben Gvir to be dismissed, which........

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