Justice Minister Yariv Levin told the High Court of Justice on Sunday that the office that his driver changed the locks on last week to prevent Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara from entering was his own private office.

“The office that was locked was the private office of the justice minister,” he insisted in a letter to the court, claiming that anyone who suggested otherwise had “knowingly misled” the court.

The office in Tel Aviv has been shared by the justice minister and attorney general for years, but on Tuesday last week, Baharav-Miara arrived to find that Levin’s driver had changed the locks to prevent her from entering.

The switch was Levin’s latest attempt to prevent Baharav-Miara from doing her job, after the government’s attempt to fire her via a specially formed committee was frozen until further notice by the High Court of Justice.

The act prompted an outpouring of condemnation and mockery from Levin’s political opponents, and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party........

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