WhatsappI take no pleasure in writing about this, especially now, in the middle of an existential war, when we are witnessing both extraordinary miracles to be grateful for and the unmatched heroism and resilience of our IDF soldiers and civilians.
But precisely at this moment, the same forces that have used the language of law for decades to restrain Israel from fully defending itself against a brutal, genocidal jihadi enemy are being exposed more clearly than ever, and that reality can not be ignored or kept out of the public discourse. Stick with me until the end to understand the whole picture.
This morning, Israel’s Supreme Court, the High Court of Justice, is convening to consider whether to remove a sitting minister from office. He broke no law. He was not convicted of a crime. But because the Attorney General and unelected senior officials have decided they don’t like him in charge of the police, and believe they know better than the voters of Israel.
Let’s be clear: whether you support Itamar Ben-Gvir or oppose him is irrelevant. This is not about Ben-Gvir. This is about the basic rules of democracy. In any functioning democracy, ministers are appointed and removed by elected leadership, by the government, accountable to the people.
Courts interpret law; they do not govern.
They certainly do not fire ministers because of political or ideological disagreement.
And yet, that is exactly what we are witnessing.
This is not the first time the High Court of Justice has overstepped its role and abused its power during this government. It blocked the government from carrying out the lawful dismissal of Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet intelligence for over a year. It intervened to halt the dismissal and full investigation of the Military Advocate General following the Sde Teiman leaked/fabricated prison video affair, an episode that inflicted lasting harm on IDF soldiers, with one committing suicide, and caused deep, irreversible diplomatic damage to Israel and the Jewish people. It even forced the police to promote a senior officer whom Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir had refused to advance due to serious concerns about misconduct tied to investigations involving the prime minister.
Taken together, this is not the behavior of a restrained judicial body. It is the conduct of a political actor actively usurping the authority of the elected government under the cover of legal language.
Going back to the Ben-Gvir case today in the Supreme Court, according to reporting by Israeli journalist Avishai Grinzaig, the Attorney General turned to Ronen Bar, when he was head of the Shin Bet, and requested materials regarding Ben-Gvir’s involvement in police operations, materials intended to be used in court responses to petitions demanding his dismissal. Let that sink in. The internal security service of the State of Israel responsible for protecting Israel from our enemies was tasked by the Attorney General to collect information on a sitting minister for use in a legal-political campaign.
Even more disturbing, the initial suspicions reportedly yielded nothing concrete. No wrongdoing. No illegal activity. And yet the directive was not for the head of intelligence to close the case, but to expand it. Dig deeper. Find something!
This is not law enforcement. This is opposition research, carried out with the tools of the justice system abusing their positions and “the law”.
Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi said it plainly: “When an Attorney General activates the head of the Shin Bet to collect materials with the aim of removing a sitting minister, this is not ‘the rule of law’, it is an attempted coup.”
Strong words, but look at the facts. If the legal establishment can leverage intelligence agencies to build a case against elected officials, not for crimes but for political purposes, then we are no longer dealing with a neutral system of justice.
We are dealing with a political actor wearing judicial robes.
Now we also begin to understand why the Attorney General and the High Court of Justice stonewalled the fully legal government decision to remove Ronen Bar as head of intelligence for over a year. It wasn’t about “procedure” or “guarding democracy, it was about buying time, burying facts, and shielding their own conduct from scrutiny.
Because if the head of the Shin Bet was indeed being used to gather material against elected officials at the request of the legal establishment, then his removal wasn’t a problem to solve, it was a threat to contain.
What we are seeing now points to a coordinated effort to protect an entrenched corrupt deep state system from exposure, even if that means paralyzing the elected government and abusing the very institutions meant to defend the state, not manipulate its political leadership.
For years, many Israelis preferred to stay on the fence. Judicial reform? Too divisive. Too political. Not needed. Continue to work on compromises that maintain the overall power of the judges. Better not get involved. But that luxury is gone. Because what is being exposed now is not a technical legal debate, it is a total systemic abuse of power.
An unelected legal elite, deeply embedded in the bureaucracy, has assumed for itself the authority to override the will of the voters. To reinterpret laws beyond recognition. To weaponize investigations. To coordinate, according to credible reporting, with elements of the intelligence community, all under the sanctified banner of “the rule of law.”
But when “the rule of law” is used to bypass the law, to impose a “progressive”, really regressive ideology, and to remove elected officials they do not like without legal cause, it is no longer rule of law. It is rule by law, using “the law” as a weapon.
This is the core of the battle over judicial reform. Not personalities. Not politics. Power.
Who governs Israel? The people through their elected representatives, or a closed circle of jurists, advisors, and bureaucrats who answer to no one?
Israel was not reborn after two thousand years so that its destiny would be decided by unelected officials operating behind closed doors. We did not return to our land to replace foreign rulers with domestic ones cloaked in legal language. The Jewish state must be governed by the Jewish people.
And yes, this is bigger than any one minister, any one court case, or any one government.
This is about whether Israel remains a democracy in substance, not just in name.
Because if a minister can be targeted, investigated, and potentially removed without wrongdoing, based on ideological opposition, then no elected official is safe. Just as the system has led a legal witch hunt against Prime Minister Netanyahu to get ride of him since he first became Prime Minister in 1996. That is how they stopped multiple appointments over the years, working with the media to publicize fabricated legal cases that are then thrown out years later, or kept open to be used as blackmail over their heads to behave a certain way.
And if no elected official is safe, then the will of the people is meaningless.
This moment demands clarity.
No more fence-sitting.
What we are witnessing is not the preservation of democracy. It is its erosion, carried out in the name of protecting it.
And unless it is confronted, it will not stop.
Comprehensive judicial reform is no longer a theoretical debate, it is an urgent necessity to end the entrenched control of unelected bureaucratic power over Israel’s national, internal, and military policy.
This is not a left-versus-right issue; it is about the basic functioning of a democracy and the well-being of every citizen of Israel.
When the government is prevented by the judicial system from holding a senior intelligence official like Ronen Bar accountable for a catastrophic failure such as the events of October 7th, and instead shields him from consequences for participating with them in a political coup, something is fundamentally broken in the justice, military, mainstream media. That is the deep state that must be stopped.
Regardless of political views, every Israeli should demand a justice system where accountability is real, authority is clear, and no individual or institution is above scrutiny.
We will overcome this internal challenge just as we will overcome our jihadi enemies.
Strengthen your faith in God and help me spread the truth.
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
