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Discussion in State Audit Committee: Promotion and Appointment of Senior Police Officers by Ben Gvir

On March 12, 2025, a discussion was held in the State Audit Committee regarding the promotion and appointment of senior police officers by Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

Watch the incisive remarks made by Zulat’s CEO Einat Ovadia in the discussion:

“We submitted a Freedom of Information request, through Attorney Itay Mack, to understand the scope of the phenomenon of intervention by former Minister Ben Gvir in the appointment of Police officers. This matter requires, in our view, a very thorough examination by the State Comptroller’s Office, because it had a direct impact on the way Ben Gvir gave direct orders to officers in the field, and bypassed the professional ranks and the Police Commissioner.

“This had very serious implications for how freedom of protest and democracy in Israel were protected – and this is something we need to take into account. We have had two years of very intensive, very violent protests – and this violence stemmed primarily from the direct connection between the officers operating in the field and Minister Ben Gvir, who had political motives to suppress protests in Israel.

“Thus, we see a phenomenon where officers and police in the field feel they can physically beat hostages’ families and bereaved families instead of protecting them, and this seeps into the Knesset of Israel as well. This is the perception. Therefore, we approached the committee, we also sent a letter to the State Comptroller, and we are asking him to review the manner in which officers were appointed by the Minister.”

Following the discussion, a representative of the State Comptroller’s Office said he would forward the request to the Comptroller and update the committee. MK Merav Ben Ari said that the committee would send a letter to the State Comptroller demanding an investigation into the appointment procedures during the tenure of Minister Ben Gvir.

Watch (Hebrew, no subtitles):

 

 

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Dr. Maha Sabbah Karkabi

 

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Tel Aviv University (2015), a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London (2015-2016), a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University (2016-2017), and a postdoctoral fellowship Ph.D. at the Humphrey Institute for Social Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2018-2020).
Dr. Maha Karbahi’s areas of interest focus on the connection between social change, family behavior, and gender inequality in societies in the process of change and specifically in Palestinian Arab society in Israel. Her research draws attention to the study of family life and employment, using a combined “ethnic lens” and “gender lens” and paying attention to the perspective of Palestinian Arab women, a group characterized by intersections between multiple marginal locations, which over the years has remained hidden from the research eye. Dr. Karkabi-Sabah’s research is published in professional journals and chapters in scientific books that are considered pioneers in family research, work, and gender equality.

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Prof. Frances Raday

Professor Emeritus in the Lieberman Chair in Labor Law, in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University and serves as a full professor in the College of Management’s academic track, where she also serves as chair of the graduate program and as honorary president of the Concord Center for International Law Absorption. Radai was a member of a working group of the UN Human Rights Council on discrimination against women. In addition, she is a prominent and feminist human rights activist.

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Dr. Rawia Aburabia 

Faculty member of Sapir Academic College’s School of Law, received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research deals with the interface between law, gender, minorities, and human rights. Has published in leading journals on the subject of the matrimonial laws pertaining to Muslim women in Israel. Her book Under the Law, Outside Justice: Polygamy, Gendered Citizenship, and Colonialism in Israeli Law is expected to be published as part of the Gender Series of Kibbutz Meuhad Publishing House.

Dr. Aburabia has extensive experience in international human rights and public law. She has worked as a jurist for the Association for Civil Right and has been invited as a specialist to address such international forums as the United Nations and the European Parliament on the subject of indigenous communities and minority rights. She has interned with Human Rights Watch in Washington DC, and has been a member of the executive board of Amnesty International. In 2018, she was selected by the magazine Globes as one of the 40 most promising young persons in Israel under the age of 40.

 

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Ron Kessler

With over two decades of experience in the field of digital content, Ron has participated in numerous political and social campaigns. He helped run the digital activity of senior public officials, and worked in various NGOs. Ron is a fundamentally optimistic man, who believes that Israel can be changed and so can people. Lives in Tel Aviv.