Overview
- The court instructed the national security minister to approve Superintendent Rinat Saban’s promotion after she petitioned over a blocked advancement.
- Rinat Saban held a senior role in investigating one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s criminal cases and later testified in the proceedings.
- Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara said the delay was political and warned that the conduct raises concern about abuse of appointment authority in the police.
- Law enforcement officials said the ruling could significantly limit the minister’s control over police promotions.
- Likud MK Tali Gottlieb denounced the decision as judicial overreach and urged the minister not to approve what she called an unfit appointment.