{"id":2357,"date":"2026-06-04T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:51:11","slug":"a-don-az-underboss-es-a-consigliere-izraelt-hivatalosan-egy-maffia-iranyitja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/a-don-az-underboss-es-a-consigliere-izraelt-hivatalosan-egy-maffia-iranyitja\/","title":{"rendered":"The Don, the Underboss, and the Consigliere: Israel Is Officially Run by the Mafia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The selection of the new head of the Israeli State Comptroller\u2019s Office\u2014a position whose mission is to uphold integrity and combat corruption\u2014was anything but clean. Michael Rabello has joined the long list of Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s dubious and deeply problematic appointments.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yossi Verter<\/strong>
June 4, 2026.<\/p>\n

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If the newly elected state auditor, Michael Rabello<\/strong> If he were a reasonable person, he would have immediately announced that he would not accept the appointment once he saw the threats and overt pressure that had clouded the vote in the Knesset.<\/p>\n

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Attorney Michael Rabello at the Supreme Court hearing in April. Source: Itay Cohen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rabello, however, is a longtime confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu, a sort of council member<\/em>\u2014who knows all the prime minister\u2019s secrets and skeletons in the closet. He is just as corrupt and depraved as his employer.<\/p>\n

The mere fact that he was willing to run as Netanyahu\u2019s candidate makes him unfit for office, not to mention the way he secured the position. A future government with a different composition\u2014if one is formed at all\u2014should exert political and moral pressure on him until he resigns voluntarily. He was elected through criminal means.<\/p>\n

Rabello\u2019s nomination is further proof of Netanyahu\u2019s unbridled audacity. In the current government, there are no longer any red lines that cannot be crossed; no norms that cannot be violated; no principles that cannot be swept aside.<\/p>\n

Still Emperor Caligula<\/strong>, who, according to legend, appointed his horse, Incitatus, as a senator, would have thought twice about appointing the same animal as the empire\u2019s comptroller. Netanyahu, however, would have done just that\u2014at least symbolically.<\/p>\n

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Over the past year, Netanyahu has carried out a veritable spate of controversial and problematic appointments: David Zini to head the Shin Bet, Roman Gofman to head the Mossad, Doron Cohen as Commissioner of Public Service, and Shmuel Ben-Ezra as National Security Advisor.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu is already thinking about the next election. If he loses, he will surround the new government with people\u2014including key figures in positions of influence\u2014who owe him a huge debt of gratitude, and whom he will be able to constantly remind of that fact.<\/p>\n

The corruption surrounding the vote in the Knesset is outrageous. A scandal like this could only happen in a dictatorship. With an \u201eoverseer\u201d like this, it might be better to abolish the institution altogether.<\/p>\n

The stench surrounding this appointment stems not only from the fact that the new auditor has a personal relationship with the very person he is supposed to be auditing.<\/p>\n

Rabello is 58 years old and has spent his entire career as a private attorney, achieving significant success through his connections with government agencies. He will serve as auditor until he is 65, after which he will return to the private sector. Why would he want to get into a conflict with the very ministries with which he may once again have business dealings in the future?<\/p>\n

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His rival for the position J\u00f3zef Elron<\/strong>, a former justice of the Supreme Court, who has deliberately stayed away from any opportunity to earn money since his retirement last year.<\/p>\n

He has no business interests, only his reputation. That is precisely why he is the kind of person Netanyahu and his ilk fear the most.<\/p>\n

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Judge Yosef Elron. Source: Oren Ben Hakoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The prime minister has often been compared to \u201ethe head of a criminal organization.\u201d The similarities are numerous. However, what happened in the Knesset on Wednesday publicly confirmed this interpretation.<\/p>\n

The structure of the \u201eorganization\u201d mirrors the classic mafia model: at the top is the Don, followed by the Underboss, then the Consigliere, and finally the rank-and-file members.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Don and the Underboss\u2014that is, Netanyahu and the Speaker of the Knesset, Amir Ohana<\/strong> \u2013 we were able to see how it works.<\/p>\n

Ohana ignored the recommendation of the parliament\u2019s legal advisor to ban the use of cell phones in voting booths. This would have been necessary because Likud lawmakers were openly instructed to record their own votes on video.<\/p>\n

We have already discussed the role of the Consigliere. The duties of the Underboss are carried out by the coalition president, Ofir Katz<\/strong> was carried out by the person who reviewed the video recordings made by the compliant representatives.<\/p>\n

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Several Likud lawmakers have publicly complained that Netanyahu is trying to exclude Mizrahi politicians from the party\u2019s next electoral list.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, those same people voted for the Ashkenazi candidate Rabello instead of the Mizrahi candidate.<\/p>\n

David Amsalem<\/strong> for example, just a few minutes after he said:<\/p>\n

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\u201eNot all Ashkenazi Jews are racist, but every racist is Ashkenazi.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2013 On the orders of the Ashkenazi Netanyahu, he voted for the Ashkenazi Rabello.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the kind of people our elected representatives are.<\/p>\n

Some of them were so eager to prove their loyalty that they didn\u2019t even turn off their phones in the voting booth. Some tried to handle the ballot and their phone at the same time, while others rushed straight to report to Katz.<\/p>\n

Keti Shitrit<\/strong> For example, he clutched the ballot in one hand and held his phone between his teeth, while his glasses fell to the ground. None of this dampened his good spirits: he remained perfectly compliant.<\/p>\n

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In the past, Netanyahu tried to cover up his misconduct\u2014which is how the cases that now form the basis of his corruption trial came about.<\/p>\n

These days, everything is done openly.<\/p>\n

Anyone who sees what happened in the Knesset as a harbinger of the upcoming election campaign is not mistaken. The process itself will, of course, be different, but the same lack of restraint, predatory exercise of power, corruption, and contempt for norms could jeopardize the integrity of the elections.<\/p>\n

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Jair Lapid<\/strong> His party, Yesh Atid, announced that it would appeal to the Supreme Court, arguing that the vote was unlawful.<\/p>\n

This is yet another ticking time bomb for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Yitzhak Amit<\/strong> at the door.<\/p>\n

Once the trial date is set, he is expected to speak out again Justice Minister Jariv Levin<\/strong>, Slomo Karhi, Minister of Communications<\/strong> and the others, claiming that they will not respect the court\u2019s decision, whatever it may be, because, in their view, the Knesset has the final say.<\/p>\n

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In another, though not entirely unrelated, matter:<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump<\/strong> On Wednesday, he confirmed press reports that he had called Netanyahu a \u201ecrazy bastard,\u201d stating that \u201ehe\u2019d be in prison by now if it weren\u2019t for me,\u201d and also said that \u201eeveryone hates Israel now.\u201d.<\/p>\n

This was literally the same as what Ravid Barak<\/strong> reported in Axios on Monday\u2014a claim that Netanyahu\u2019s office immediately denied.<\/p>\n

The rebuttal itself is not unusual. What is noteworthy, however, is that commentators close to Netanyahu, such as Jakov Bardugo<\/strong> and Jinon Magal<\/strong> They also swore that no such conversation ever took place, that Trump didn't swear, and that Ravid is lying.<\/p>\n

Then Trump himself spoke up.<\/p>\n

Maybe he's lying too?<\/p>\n

However, Netanyahu did not deny the story in a later interview on American television.<\/p>\n

In other words, he lied to his own mouthpieces, who then spread the falsehood on his behalf, thereby making fools of themselves.<\/p>\n

At least they've learned their lesson.<\/p>\n

Source: Haaretz<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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