Otzma Yehudit Official Questioned by Police

Kroizer was summoned for questioning after Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara approved the move. His questioning focused on the circumstances of the incident and on whether he was involved in attacking the officers or, as he has claimed, was attacked himself.

Responding at the time, Kroizer said: "The political witch hunt of the attorney general and Boaz Balat has lost all restraint. This is predatory political persecution, hard-hearted and unrestrained. Police officers attacked a Knesset member, and instead of looking into his complaint, on the orders of the political attorney general who abuses her power in a criminal manner and pursues a policy of selective enforcement, they are trying to turn the victim into a suspect."

"This is a clearly political decision just before elections. While demands to investigate Knesset members from the left gather dust in the corridors of the State Attorney's Office, when it comes to an elected official from the right, the system mobilizes at record speed. This is what a system that has lost its compass and the public's trust looks like. It won't help you. On 27.10 the public will have its say at the ballot box, and immediately afterward all of you will be put on trial," he said.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir also responded at the time: "The decision of the criminal attorney general regarding MK Yitzhak Kroizer this morning raises grave concern of selective enforcement and political use of the law enforcement system on the eve of the elections."

"A Knesset member comes to the memorial service of a childhood friend who fell in battle, is, according to him, violently attacked, breaks a rib and goes to the Police Internal Investigations Department to file a complaint. Instead of looking into his complaint, they are trying to turn the complainant into a suspect. The claim that this was done on the attorney general's instructions requires immediate examination," Ben Gvir said.

"Why, in the cases of Knesset members Gilad Kariv, who leaked classified material, and Naama Lazimi, who set fires on the Ayalon a long time ago, are the decisions still being delayed, while in Kroizer's case they act with such speed? Since when does an attorney general decide to investigate a Knesset member in less than a day? The attorney general must provide answers to the public in Israel," he continued.

"It is important to emphasize: the vast majority of Israel's police officers are heroes who do sacred work. Minister Ben Gvir is the first minister who gave them backing, raised their salaries and supports them, but a police officer who acted violently and contrary to the law and allegedly attacked a Knesset member unlawfully (if this is revealed in the Police Internal Investigations Department's inquiry) must be held to account," Ben Gvir said.

"The law is not the private property of the attorney general. I demand an immediate and equal examination of the incident. We will give our answer to the criminal adviser on the 27th of the month, when Otzma Yehudit will act to remove her from her post," he added.

Otzma Yehudit officials declined to comment on Sunday's questioning.

Kroizer recently submitted Otzma Yehudit's first bill in the 26th Knesset. It would require every citizen who wishes to vote in elections, and every Knesset member, to declare loyalty to the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.

In recent weeks the party has also raised claims of suspected irregularities at polling stations in the Arab sector during the last election. Yitzhak Wasserlauf, the minister for the Negev, Galilee and national resilience, said the party received documentation and testimony on election day pointing to suspected cash payments in exchange for votes for the Ra'am party.