The Israeli Knesset (parliament) unanimously approved on Wednesday evening a proposal to discuss the dismissal of the government's legal advisor, Gali Baharav-Miara, while the opposition boycotted the vote, according to Hebrew media.

Channel 13, a private Hebrew channel, said that 51 members of the Knesset (out of 120) supported the proposal to have the government discuss the dismissal of Mayara, while the opposition boycotted the vote.

The proposal, submitted by MK Avichai Boron of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, is titled "The Conduct of the Attorney General and Public Harm." The far-right accuses Mayara of inventing baseless legal obstacles and exceeding the limits of her legal mandate, to obstruct government policy.

In response to this, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said in a post on the X platform, "The next step is to present her dismissal to the government for discussion, and the Israeli government must make this decision."

Last week, the Israeli opposition dropped a previous proposal submitted by Boron, in which he called on the government to begin procedures to dismiss Mayara, by mobilizing its members to vote against it in a surprising manner that the government coalition, of which only 40 members out of 64 members in the Knesset were present, did not expect.

On December 3, Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi published the signatures of 13 out of 33 ministers in the Israeli government, calling for the dismissal of the government’s attorney general.

At the time, Karhi said, according to the Hebrew newspaper Maariv, that “the behavior of the attorney general deliberately obstructs the government’s policy for political reasons, while inventing baseless legal obstacles and exceeding the limits of the legal mandate granted to her.”

Ministers in the right-wing Israeli government accuse the government's attorney general of exercising her authority based on leftist views, which harms the work of the government coalition.

In early February 2023, Mayara published a legal opinion in which she expressed her opposition to the judicial reform plan presented at the time by Justice Minister Yariv Levin in agreement with Netanyahu, which the opposition described as an authoritarian coup.

Contrary to the position of the Israeli government and its president, Mayara has repeatedly demanded the formation of an official committee of inquiry into the failure of October 7, 2023, which angered Netanyahu and his party, who are demanding the formation of a "political" committee with limited powers, in the Hamas movement's attack on settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip and Israeli military sites.

More than once, the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, condemned the attacks on Miara by right-wing ministers and members of the Knesset.

Mayara has been the Israeli government's legal advisor since February 7, 2022, and is the first woman to hold the position (for a period of 6 years) by decision of the Minister of Justice, whose decision is presented to the Israeli government for approval.

The Attorney General is a civil servant who heads the law enforcement system in Israel, heads the State Prosecution Service, serves as legal advisor to the executive branch and represents it before the courts.