ʻInyan la-tsibur
Subtitle: Yosef Harish : Ish shel tsdeḳ = Public interest : attorney general Joseph Harish
By: Mosheh Gorali
Publisher: Yediʻot aḥaronot
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Rishon le-Tsiyon
Language: heb
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789652013026
Subjects: Attorneys general; Biography; Procureurs généraux; Biographies
Other titles: Public interest :
Description: When Yosef Harish was appointed attorney general in 1986, the government expected and even demanded that he order the GSS investigation to be closed - but he insisted on continuing the investigation and on the other hand defended the president's authority to pardon GSS officials. The Beisky Committee recommended that the bank executives be prosecuted for regulating the shares; Harish checked and found that there was no deception in their actions; The High Court intervened, overturned his decision and ordered them to be prosecuted. After a long and expensive legal process - the mountain gave birth to a mouse, they were acquitted and it turned out that Harish was right. In the seven years of his tenure as ombudsman - justice, fairness and law, material considerations, balanced and value-based, and they alone. Without publicity and without populism, Harish stood firm in the face of pressure from politicians on the right and left, rabbis and rabbinates, the media, and sometimes even alone in front of the State Attorney's Office.