Roman Gofman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pick to lead the Mossad, accused Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara of acting in bad faith on Friday, after she raised concerns with the High Court of Justice over a recent meeting he held with an official from the spy agency.

The Attorney General’s Office filed a notice with the court Thursday morning informing it of two meetings he held with officials in the Mossad after his appointment as the next head of the spy agency was approved, which the legal officials said Gofman should have told the court in the framework of the petitions against him.

The court quickly dismissed the attorney general’s concerns, however, saying the meetings and what was discussed in them had no relevance or influence on the petitions before the court, or its decisions thus far in the legal proceedings.

Gofman’s lawyer, responding to Baharav Miara in another notice filed with the High Court, asserted that her account of a recent meeting between his client and a senior Mossad official was “not true (to put it lightly).”

“It is very unfortunate that the attorney general, who is supposed to be a [democratic] gate-keeper, is not acting in good faith toward an IDF major general,” the lawyer said, referring to Gofman. “There isn’t room here to elaborate and detail all the procedural flaws [Baharav-Miara] has caused.”

Gofman was appointed as the next head of the Mossad in April this year, but several petitions were filed against him, including one by a blogger whom Gofman had authorized to publish classified information in a social media influence campaign while he was serving as the commander of the IDF’s 210th Division.

The blogger, Ori Elmakayes who was 17 at the time, was subsequently arrested and indicted for espionage and was only exonerated 18........

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