Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara accused the attorney general and state prosecutor of pursuing a politically motivated investigation aimed at harming her husband after the pair ordered police to launch an investigation into her alleged attempts to intimidate a witness in the premier’s criminal corruption trial.

“It is clear that there is a desire to… invent offenses with the clear intention of harming a sitting prime minister through improper means… in order to terrorize Israeli democracy,” wrote Sara Netanyahu’s attorney Oriel Chur Nizri in a letter to Gali Baharav-Miara and Amit Aisman, which was leaked to the media on Saturday.

The letter was titled as a warning letter ahead of legal action, but the letter’s content didn’t include such a threat, and consisted primarily of a collection of political arguments against the probe sounded by the premier’s supporters in the media and social media, with few actual legal arguments.

In any case, Israeli law doesn’t provide for individuals to sue the heads of the law enforcement system for considering a probe into their alleged wrongdoing.

On Thursday, Baharav-Miara and Aisman ordered police to investigate Sara Netanyahu after a recent investigative report indicated she had ordered Hanni Bleiweiss, her husband’s late aide, to orchestrate protests and an online........

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