Mati Tuchfeld, head of C14's political desk who first revealed the Mahash separation bill three and a half years ago, said the law is 'the most important and critical' of all the judicial reform proposals on the table. He argued that Mahash has become a 'private militia' for Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and State Attorney Amit Aisman, controlling the Israel Police and Shin Bet.
Mati Tuchfeld, the C14 political desk chief who originally exposed the legislation to separate the Police Internal Investigations Department (Mahash) from the State Attorney's Office three and a half years ago, offered a stark assessment of the bill in remarks published Tuesday afternoon. He called it the single most important and critical piece among all the judicial reform proposals currently on the Knesset agenda, arguing that Mahash under its current configuration has become a tool of political control by the attorney general and state attorney rather than an independent investigative body.
The bill, advanced by MK Moshe Saada (Likud), passed its final Knesset readings earlier this week with 43 in favor and 39 opposed — a vote Saada called 'a day of good news for all of Israel.' Tuchfeld's commentary frames the legislation as the culmination of a long campaign to restructure oversight of police and Shin Bet investigations, though the law's full implications remain a subject of political debate.
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