Likud MK Moshe Saada threatened Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara’s deputy during a heated Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee discussion Tuesday, as lawmakers debated a coalition bill to split up the attorney general’s role, amid ongoing attempts to fire Baharav-Miara and curb her authority.

Saada, addressing Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon directly, said, “You sit in front of me with a smile, and in your place once sat the deputy military advocate general and the military advocate general — also with a smile — and you know where they are today. You know exactly where they are today, and you, Gil, will end up in the same place.”

Former military advocate general Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned in October after admitting that she had authorized the leak of a surveillance video showing alleged abuse of a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility.

Tomer-Yerushalmi was arrested last month in connection with the leak and the subsequent investigation, and her deputy, Brig. Gen. Gal Asael, was placed under house arrest and suspended from the Military Advocate General’s Corps.

Tomer-Yerushalmi was released this week from the hospital, where she spent more than a month after an apparent suicide attempt via overdose.

Justice Minister Yariv Levin........

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