In a very unusual move, a letter was sent to the mayor of Rosh HaAyin and to the chairman of the planning committee, regarding the alleged construction offenses of Ben Ari • "You are not authorized to intervene", the two were warned

• Liat Ben Ari

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  Mark Israel Salem

The State Attorney's Office, in an unusual and perhaps unprecedented manner, is intervening tonight (Thursday) in the construction offenses case of the Deputy State Attorney for Economic Enforcement, Adv. Liat Bo Ari, who also serves as the chief prosecutor in the Netanyahu trial.

Surprisingly, Bat Or Kahanovitz, the director of the Department for the Prosecution of Certified Prosecutors, sent an urgent letter to the mayor of Rosh HaAyin, Shalom Ben Moshe, and to the chairman of the subcommittee on planning and construction, Yishai Edward, warning her not to interfere in Ben Ari's construction offenses. , It was revealed in "Israel Today" that Ben-Ari committed construction offenses on a property registered in her name in the city: she converted without permission a property in her possession into two units for rent, in order to increase the rental profit from it. 

Since construction offenses are a criminal offense, the question of filing the indictment is in the hands of the Attorney General who is subordinate to the State Attorney's Office and the Attorney General. In fact, the ombudsman's institution in this matter is in sharp conflict of interest, and is trying to intervene and ostensibly block the possibility of filing an indictment in the construction offenses case of a senior clerk in it, the belief by virtue of its role among other such offenses.

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"The head of the authority or other elected officials are not authorized to order the taking of criminal enforcement proceedings," Kahanovitz wrote. "A lawyer authorized by the Attorney General to serve as a prosecutor in certain criminal cases on behalf of a local authority or a planning and building committee must also exercise independent discretion in each case. He is not subject, in the criminal prosecution, to the instructions of the head of the local authority, or "Other elected officials or senior employees of the authority, on the question of whether to file an indictment in one case or another, what punishment should be demanded in court, whether to withdraw from the indictment after the indictment has been filed, and so on."

Officers are warned not to interfere in the case of Deputy State Attorney Ben Ari's construction offenses: "You are required to be careful about the independence of the criminal prosecution, and the elected representatives in the committee must act to ensure this principle, and to ensure the professional ability of law enforcement. The patients by them. " 

The prosecution ostensibly notes the independence of the local prosecution even though it is subject to a professional prosecutor and cannot file an indictment without his approval: "Decisions on enforcement proceedings will continue to be made by the local prosecution professionally and independently, and even the said case will be handled. The commitment and enforcement policy of the local committee, "writes Kahanovitz.

MK Dr. Shlomo Krei (Likud) responded: If there is one reason, the most justified, to go to the polls, it is only to dismantle this junta that wins the backing of the Minister of Justice. And yet, with an annual budget, there is a government, there are no elections. That they will not work on you. Gantz was tired of going to school and he decided to close it. "

The "If You Will" movement responded: "Israeli citizens must worry more today than ever. See how the Attorney General, who also appointed himself State Attorney, continues to nationalize himself with unbridled riots that have no powers. Unfortunately, he acts as Minister of Internal Security "The lawsuits are working to close accounts for anyone who criticizes his milieu. Mandelblit's conduct is reminiscent of dark regimes and even drags Israel there. It is both frightening and shocking."