{"id":488489,"date":"2026-06-12T01:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/488489\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:36:19","slug":"the-government-is-taking-revenge-on-israels-top-law-enforcement-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/488489\/","title":{"rendered":"The Government Is Taking Revenge on Israel&#8217;s Top Law Enforcement Watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">A bill that the Knesset passed Thursday will turn the Justice Ministry&#8217;s police misconduct investigation unit into Israel&#8217;s first official political investigation unit. Official because for three years now, the Israel Police has already been operating as a political police force whose leaders have resorted to every means possible to please the government and the minister who overseas the police, Itamar Ben-Gvir \u2013 from harming anti-government protests to baseless arrests and strip searches of demonstrators, to deter them from taking to the streets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bill that the Knesset passed Thursday will turn the Justice Ministry&#8217;s police misconduct investigation unit into Israel&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,85,46,1158,954,837,14406,43],"class_list":["post-488489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-israeli-politics","tag-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-knesset","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488489","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=488489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}