The insistence that will hurt public confidence: Mendelblit's unnecessary battle for the state's attorney

The court won the first clash with Minister of Justice Ohana, but he is wrong when he unnecessarily insists on the appointment of Dan Eldad, who as the state's attorney can not do too harmless. When the entire law enforcement system is rigorous for reconstruction, and regardless of the outcome of the fight, this time Ohana is right

The insistence that will hurt public confidence: Mendelblit's unnecessary battle for the state's attorney

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Attorney General Avihai Mandelblit announced yesterday his opposition to Justice Minister Amir Ohana's decision to appoint Deputy State Attorney Dan Eldad, the State Attorney's Office. Ohana is the envoy of the transitional defendant, Benjamin Netanyahu. The natural tendency, in the clash between Mandelblit and Ohana, is to sidestep the consultant's professional stance against the personal mix (twice personally, Ohana himself and Netanyahu), and politically motivate the minister's moves. Important chapters in the couple's portfolio mask Bethania - avoiding investigation of the Si-Drift shares and Netanyahu relations with his uncle, industrialist-investor gave Milikovsky; prevents the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office, Netanyahu's office demanding 120 thousand shekels wasted state Balfour meals - so, at the opposite pole, he insists that the need to combat the appointment of Eldad.

Mendelblit was too complacent in the period leading up to the resignation of State Attorney Shai Nitzan. He did not act in advance to prepare a deputy nor to announce, alternatively, that he himself would fill the place of the attorney - a senior official - until a permanent government, with a permanent minister, was established and a finding committee headed by the counsel for the appointment of a permanent lawyer was appointed. The leadership does not guarantee a decision at the will of the chairman - Judge Asher Grunis, the head of the detection committee that recommended Mandelblit to the Judiciary, did not support - but it has an effect. As Mandelblit delayed, Ohana went into the void and delighted the Likud audience. In the first round, Mandelblit won, with the help of Civil Service Commissioner Daniel Hershkowitz and the withdrawal of candidate Orly Ben-Ari. After a month and a half, the deal is more likely that Hershkowitz with Ohana - and Eldad, learning the lessons of the first round, will not give up volunteering. But regardless of the outcome, this time Mandelblit is wrong, and anyway, in the absence of common space - Ohana is right.

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Be too complacent. Mandelblit (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Avichai Mandelblit, during a court conference at the University of Haifa, January 5, 2019 (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Ben-Ari was too junior, a deputy district attorney. In times of crisis or degeneration, a qualified outside party may come and bounce, second-to-none, an experienced ranks enough to ensure a professional but not too senior refreshment on the existing establishment. There are military examples of this. George Marshall was appointed head of the US military's (and air) ground arm, on the eve of World War II, over the heads of dozens of veteran and fossil generals. So did Admiral Earl Barak, in the US Navy in the 1950s. President Nixon accelerated the promotion of his associate Alexander Haig by leaps and bounds. Ehud Barak, the young champions promoted by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon despite opposition from Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, believed he had a good chance of winning Sharon's support for Chief of Staff after Eitan, without Sharon's embarrassment in Lebanon to the point of ousting him.

Mandelblit's opposition to the nomination of the state's attorney is again devouring the cards

Obviously, the existing cult would prefer to grow out of it only slowly, cautiously and according to an internal justice table, which does not necessarily match the needs of an external authority that aspires to shake the dust and cleanse the cobwebs, but does not yet appoint a next-generation creative revolutionary as a senior defiant appointment. When Brigadier General Jacob Turner arrived from the IAF and held two extras, he paid the required tax to advance to the commander-in-chief - exactly what Gilad Arden did not understand when he attempted a direct appointment of Brigadier General Gal Hirsch.

Ohnist-meaning-bibist signal

Eldad, as a department manager (twice), is on a par with district attorneys - similar to division chiefs or national headquarters with commanding or district commanders. Parallel, but there is an advantage to those who command or manage the field. Most often, to head the entire organization, It is desirable to know the problems of the field and not just the headquarters. In the IDF, from Moshe Dayan onwards, there were only two instances of a chief of staff who had not previously served as commanding officer - Haim Bar-Lev (who was confronted with Air Force champion Ezer Weizman) and Dan Halutz But two of the last three state attorneys, Eran Schender and Shay Nitzan, were not district attorneys. Shander, a former director of the State Police Department's Investigations Department, had little experience More than there is today for Eldad, when counselor Manny Mazuz screwed him to the head of the prosecutor's office.

The organization's chief executive officer and deputy chiefs are sometimes marked as interim deputy chief of staff, but the gap is not as large as junior deputies. The rank, in the military and police, is the same; the role could signal future contention for the senior. For half a dozen, he must not be offended if for a few weeks - until the elections are over and the process of forming a government, appointing a Minister of Justice, establishing a Detection Committee and recommending a permanent state attorney - will act as deputy director / district attorney "only".

As Mandelblit procrastinates, Ohana enters the void (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Justice Minister Amir Ohana and Orly Ben Ari Ginsberg Separation Ceremony Silk Bud, Jewish Base Border Patrol Jerusalem, December 18, 2019 (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Eldad, a senior IDF officer in the IDF, handled his previous role in the Boaz Harpaz document case. Like others in the police, the prosecutor's office and the State Comptroller's Office, he did not necessarily have a thorough understanding of the political echelon's relations with the military and both with the media; A decade ago, Netanyahu's pre-files, but his positions in the affair, as wrong as they may seem to an outside observer, were matter-of-fact, though characterized by more kindness than leadership, and perhaps not equipped with the skills necessary for a state attorney for a six-year term and a turbulent period of system leadership in the face of attacks. - In the atmosphere of Netanyahu's trial - alongside management The interior of districts and estates attorney's office, then voiding the Mandelblitt acting, especially from the suspicion that sits at the head of that change Momi Lemberger and Liat Ben-Ari when the signal impressed on his forehead Aohnist-means-Bibist, is unfair.

Like a grasshopper in front of giants?

The entire law enforcement system is in need of rehabilitation. Not only a missing state attorney - there is no permanent commissioner and will not soon be head of the Investigations and Intelligence Division. The hasty, perhaps even reckless, announcement by Gadi Sisu, that he will retire at the end of his third year in the best role in the police Blade 433 for frenzy. Since the establishment of Lahav, two VIP heads who preceded Sisu - Yoav Segalovitz and Manny Yitzhaki - have taken over from Lahav's leadership, as a natural trajectory. Sisu, who was Yitzhaki's deputy at the UN and did not serve as Lahav, was appointed head of the VIP as Ronnie Ritman was forced to retire Minister of Internal Security Gilad Arden today appointed candidate for another to be headed by Chief of Staff Chief Lahav 433, Yigal Ben-Shalom, although new commissioner and minister were able to defrost frozen ideas from John Danino era - import judge or attorney Ben-Shalom's promotion cleared the head of Lahav Sub-Deputy Motti Levi, his deputy, who successfully dealt with talented officers, such as the former Chief of Staff. Varsh Bar-Noor, head of the Eran Kamin Investigation Division and Sisu's deputy, Moti Levy.

The head of the VIP, who is the direct commander of the head of Lahav, but his counterpart, is the main police arm of the Attorney General and the State Attorney. Since these two are in charge of the DIP, the Ministry of Justice, is troubling to find out how negligent they were in supervising the investigators. The researchers. Mandelblit and Nitzan are not allowed to take pride in their function, or to present a masterpiece that Dan Eldad compares to as a grasshopper in front of giants.

Characterized more kindly than leadership. Adv. Dan Eldad (Photo: Eyal Yitzhar, Globes)

Attorney Dan Eldad will be appointed Deputy State Attorney (Photo: Eyal Yitzhar, Globes, official website)

About a month ago, the Police Disciplinary Tribunal published a shockingly disturbing story of the harassment of the system - not to a citizen, not to a politician, certainly not to a prime minister, but to one of its officers, deputy governor, jurist, head of the Claims Unit in Lahav. He was charged, admitted and convicted in a plea bargain that "in a number of cases, in 2013-15, he was verbally pronounced against some of the unit's commands - prosecutors and prosecutors - in a manner that may have embarrassed or inconvenienced" and sometimes "conducted in a manner that allowed the formation of corporate relations Relatives with some of the commands ", what is" inappropriate for a police officer ".

It is an indictment that softens following a mediation conducted by a retired judge, after the mediator was impressed that the charges were inflated and expected to end on a credit. The original indictment had four charges and 15 prosecution witnesses. The Police Discipline Department was sacked for the SN, along with the DIP. He was detained in Ben Gurion on his return from a bar mitzvah trip with his son and separated from him, "regardless of the possible damages to the child's soul, who experienced a severe fall in the status of the father," from a defendant - suspect. The DIP investigator, who the SS disqualified from service in his unit, found There was an adequate opportunity to get rid of him. Two camps were set up in the Claims Unit, and the DIP preferred to collect evidence only from the officer's camp. It also turned out that his affection for his subordinates was due to a note from a psychology department psychologist that he was too cool and had to put more effort into admiring sympathy and sympathy. The opinion of "a worthy, professional, courteous, honest, disciplined, dedicated, diligent, sensitive, gentle, gentleman who has never been unduly expressed is not helpful." The SC was reprimanded, but the Department of Police Investigations and the Discipline Department were further reprimanded.

This time he is with Ohana. Hershkowitz (Photo: Nimrod Saunders)

Daniel Hershkowitz, October 2012 (Photo: Nimrod Saunders)

Mendelblit, who marked four years in office this week, will be busy for the remaining two years of Netanyahu's trial and other defendants in his cases, possibly in other senior cases (his appearance in the Knesset Committee on the removal of MK Haim Katz's immunity was unconvincing). And even though he loathed himself for Netanyahu, who in his eyes was widely admired and admired as a tyrant, does not cover the lack of other skills for the armies of the law, Mandelblit is right, dearly belated and still not partial to the charges, for Netanyahu's charges, but he also harms his confidence in him and therefore When it expands the front as well Gad Eldad, acting too that can not damage the State Attorney's Office.