The Lavi organization submitted an urgent petition to the Supreme Court on Friday demanding that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara be ordered to refrain from dealing with the affairs of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and former Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman.

The petition is based on a recent revelation of personal friendships spanning decades between Baharav-Miara and her husband, and Bar and Argaman. The Attorney-General’s husband, Tzion Miara, served as a Shin Bet operative before he became ill 20 years ago and was diagnosed with ALS.

Bar and Argaman were Miara’s Shin Bet colleagues and close friends who maintained contact with him after he became ill and homebound.

Despite her close personal ties with Bar, Baharav-Miara became involved in his case to a degree that even Supreme Court justices disagreed with. She froze Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s dismissal of Bar and even fabricated a “legal decision” that he is forbidden from interviewing candidates for the position until a hearing is held on the matter.

Regarding Argaman, Baharav-Miara is personally involved in a petition he filed regarding the government commission of inquiry on spyware, when she “surprisingly’ refused to represent the government’s position and instead adopted Argaman’s position.

The petition filed by the Lavi organization includes tangible evidence of Baharav-Miara’s personal connections to Bar and Argaman, such as reports by Baharav-Miara’s brother-in-law documenting visits and social gatherings and describing the close relationship between the families.

The petition details how Baharav Miara’s conduct violates a series of laws, including a section in the Civil Service Regulations that prohibits a public servant from being involved in a matter in which he/she may be in a conflict of interest; the rules of ethics for state employees that require self-disqualification in handling the cases of personal friends; as well as the conflict of interest arrangement that Baharav-Miara herself signed.

The Lavi organization stated that attempts were made to resolve the problem out of court. The organization contacted the Ministry of Justice on March 27, 2025, demanding that the conflict of interest be addressed, but the request was completely ignored. A journalist’s inquiry on the matter was also answered with “no comment.”

“Every moment in which Baharav-Miara deals with matters in which she is in a personal conflict of interest, which she does not deny at all, contaminates these proceedings,” the petition states. “This conduct harms public trust in the law enforcement system and constitutes a very problematic example for all public servants in the country.”

The petition also emphasizes the contradiction in Baharav-Miara’s conduct, which, on the one hand, adheres to strict conflict of interest rules towards other parties, and on the other hand, ignores a significant conflict of interest in her own affairs.

The petition demands that the Supreme Court issue a conditional order and a temporary injunction ordering Baharav-Miara to update her conflict of interest arrangement and immediately withdraw from any involvement in petitions related to Mr. Bar and Mr. Argaman.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)