The Prosecutor's Office accuses Dan Eldad of political considerations • So, how do we think that dedicating huge resources to PM investigations is not the result of political considerations?

Is it possible that the prosecutor's office is considering not only professional considerations but also political considerations? This week, "senior prosecutors" answered a positive answer.

The public struggle to regulate effective external oversight of the Attorney General's ups and downs. The climax was in the few years of retired Judge Hila Gerstel's "audit of State Representatives in the Courts," which yielded five excellent systemic review reports, with practical recommendations for improvement.

Remembering a conference in 2009 at the Bar, before the establishment of the Audit Commission, titled "Who Will Keep the Guards? The Initiative to Establish an Audit Body to Oversee the Prosecutor's Office," in which the retired and retired judge Boaz Okon tried to convince us of the need for the audit. The State's Attorney then Moses for a generation.

I have proposed, and still suggest, eight areas where much criticism is needed: 1. Overseeing the fateful decision to prosecute, which could destroy the life of the accused even if acquitted; 2. Supervision of the plea bargain industry, the vast majority of which are convicted within the framework, without clarification of guilt and without proof of offense; 3. Supervision of the disclosure of the investigation material by the Prosecutor's Office, since without full disclosure, no proper protection can be provided; 4. Supervision of the relationship between the State Prosecutor's Office and the police, including effective supervision of the investigators, the denial of the police authority to prosecute and the separation of the forensic laboratories from the police; 5. Monitoring the leaks to the media, during the investigation and trial, designed to pressure defendants to admit; 6. Supervising the training provided by the plaintiffs, seeking to create an ethos of assisting judges in revealing the truth rather than conviction at all costs; 7. Supervision of procrastination in criminal case management; 8. Oversight of multiple arrest requests. As a general rule, the Attorney General should be required to formulate and publish policies regarding the important types of decisions made therein (such as prosecution, plea bargains, detention requests, etc.), and this policy should be effectively monitored.

However, the State Attorney for the then generation and Shi Nitzan who entered his shoes did not want to be criticized. I remember that the above conference argued to a generation that because the prosecutor's office employs about 800 professional attorneys, who spend many days safeguarding public interests without considering foreign considerations, including political considerations, there is no need to establish an audit body. This argument has been heard repeatedly over the years, until the last week.

According to media reports, senior attorneys have criticized Dan Eldad's decision to take on the role of State Attorney, contrary to Mandelblit's opinion. "State Attorney's Office" were quoted as saying about Eldad: "Trojan horse entering the prosecution system" (but there was decades ...); "We became Turkey, slave slave"; "The Minister of Justice appointed a State Attorney and a week after delivers the goods," referring to Eldad's decision to open an investigation into the "fifth dimension" affair.

First of all, who has repeatedly recommended in recent months the opening of the investigation is Attorney Shlomo Lamberger, who remembers the best of Mendelblit's recommendation and only on him. Isn't he from the "good"? Second and most interesting of all: Do senior prosecutors blame Eldad for political considerations? If they are right, and the State Prosecutor's Office is also considering political considerations, how do we decide that the decisions to delay the interrogation in the "fifth dimension" case (which it looks most serious about) were not political? And how do we decide that in recent years the decisions to devote enormous resources to the PM's investigations, while exerting massive pressure on state witnesses and using improper methods of inquiry, are not political considerations? Indeed, I have so far criticized that the police and the prosecution have shown excessive eagerness in these investigations. It is precisely the "senior prosecutor's office" that creates concern that the prosecutor's office also considered political considerations.

Prof. Sanjero teaches at the Law and Business Academic Center and at Sapir Academic College, founder of the site "Review of the Criminal Justice System"