{"id":474842,"date":"2026-06-03T22:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/474842\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:27:11","slug":"watchdog-or-lapdog-in-netanyahus-israel-personal-loyalty-tops-professionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/474842\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog or Lapdog? In Netanyahu&#8217;s Israel, Personal Loyalty Tops Professionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">The 25th Knesset has already assured itself a place in history as the worst Knesset in Israeli history. And yet, even when we have zero expectations of it, it still manages to surprise us by hitting new lows, over and over again. On Wednesday, in an all too typical farce, it approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s personal attorney, Michael Rabello, as the new state comptroller. Try to look surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 25th Knesset has already assured itself a place in history as the worst Knesset in Israeli history.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[70089,49,85,46,58195,21141,43],"class_list":["post-474842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-attorney-general-of-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-elections-2026","tag-likud","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474842","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=474842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}