Overview

• Israeli police detained a 36-year-old Jerusalem resident on suspicion of threatening Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara’s life.
• Investigators launched a probe after receiving a letter with an explicit death threat against a senior official, then tracked and arrested the suspect within hours.
• Authorities say the man allegedly approached former Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef for a psak declaring the attorney general a rodef, a request that was relayed via Religious Affairs Ministry director-general Yehuda Avidan to police.
• Law enforcement highlighted the gravity of invoking din rodef, noting its association with Yigal Amir’s justification for assassinating Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
• Baharav-Miara remains in office under a High Court freeze on the government’s recent vote to remove her, as tensions over conscription and subsidies involving the ultra-Orthodox community continue.