Israel’s First Female Attorney General at Center of Judicial Storm
Supporters call her an iron lady. Opponents say she is what's wrong with the system.
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When Gali Baharav-Miara was appointed Israel’s attorney general two years ago, she broke a glass ceiling as the first woman in the job — but barely anybody in the country had heard of her.
Now she finds herself at the center of a heated fight over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed overhaul of the judiciary, the country’s most brutal internal debate in decades. Protected by security, she’s hailed by one side as a bulwark of democracy for standing up to the PM, while derided by the other as exactly what’s wrong with a system in need of fixing. Some of Netanyahu’s coalition partners want her fired.