{"id":253061,"date":"2026-01-23T06:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/253061\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:11:17","slug":"israels-murky-government-lays-the-groundwork-for-a-blue-and-white-stasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/253061\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Murky Government Lays the Groundwork for a Blue-and-white Stasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh xb3r6kr x103ahzr\">In the murky flow of government actions and legislation falling under the heading &#8220;the judicial overhaul,&#8221; one action slipped the public&#8217;s eye. It was the decision of the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, to transfer the authority to investigate crimes related to freedom of speech from the police&#8217;s Investigation and Intelligence Department to a junior office associated with him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the murky flow of government actions and legislation falling under the heading &#8220;the judicial overhaul,&#8221; one action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,955,85,46,1158,69730,2649,63807,954,837,953,43,19344],"class_list":{"0":"post-253061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-gadi-eisenkot","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-israel-police","13":"tag-israels-media","14":"tag-israeli-elections","15":"tag-israeli-judiciary","16":"tag-israeli-politics","17":"tag-itamar-ben-gvir","18":"tag-naftali-bennett","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-yair-lapid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}