{"id":507677,"date":"2026-06-23T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/507677\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:46:10","slug":"police-chief-backs-station-commander-ben-gvir-sought-to-dismiss-over-route-4-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/507677\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Chief backs station commander Ben-Gvir sought to dismiss over Route 4 protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police Commissioner Danny Levy issued a statement of support for Bnei Brak-Ramat Gan Station Commander Chief Superintendent Yuval Shavit, whom National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced he is considering dismissing following the handling of the ultra-Orthodox extremist protest on Route 4 last week. Shavit was filmed tearing a protester&#8217;s pants. The police stated that Levy &#8220;spoke with the station commander, heard the sequence of events and accepted their position that under the circumstances of the serious incident, during which a major traffic artery was blocked during early morning hours while disrupting public order, significant police action was required to restore it.&#8221; It was also stated that &#8220;the Commissioner expressed his appreciation and support for the commanders and officers working in the field for public safety and maintaining public order and will continue to stand by them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Commissioner Danny Levy issued a statement of support for Bnei Brak-Ramat Gan Station Commander Chief Superintendent Yuval&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-507677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507677","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=507677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}