The radical-left establishment that tried to defeat United States President Donald Trump continues to try to get rid of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The latest avenue of attack is Mr. Netanyahu’s wife.

Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara ordered a police investigation on Dec. 26, 2024, into Sara Netanyahu. Baharav-Miara accused Sara Netanyahu of harassing a witness in Mr. Netanyahu’s corruption trial. The investigation is being handled by Lahav 433, the Israel Police’s anti-corruption authority.

Baharav-Miara is using evidence from Uvda, an investigative journalism television show, as her main argument. Uvda alleged Sara Netanyahu had instructed an aid to organize demonstrations outside the home of Hadas Klein, the main prosecution witness against Benjamin Netanyahu.

Uvda accuses Sara Netanyahu of using Hanni Bleiweiss, a former aide to Benjamin Netanyahu, to organize demonstrations to harass Klein at her house. Uvda used WhatsApp texts from Bleiweiss’s phone as proof. Uvda also accused Sara Netanyahu of pettily going after rivals of her husband by organizing a protest at their private residence. Bleiweiss died in 2023. How Uvda got her private messages is a mystery.

Netanyahu’s attorney claims that Baharav-Miara is showing political bias. The attorney general’s office didn’t pursue similar investigations into reservists who refused to show up for duty out of solidarity with anti-Netanyahu protests.

Sara Netanyahu may face questioning from the police while her husband stands trial.

The prime minister called the Uvda report “biased” and “false propaganda.” He also accused the show of deliberately ignoring issues concerning left-wing figures. Justice Minister Yariv Levin said the attorney general’s actions were “extreme selective enforcement” and accused her of “opening investigations following gossip on television.” National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said, “Someone who persecutes government ministers and their families politically cannot continue to serve as attorney general.”

Such political attacks were par for the course before October 2023. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, has been a perennial bogeyman for Israel’s left. Everything from mass demonstrations to legal attacks (such as the never-ending trial claiming he accepted bribes) have been used to pressure him out of power.

The Israel-Gaza war begun on Oct. 7, 2023, put a lid on most of this pressure. Many Israelis disagree with how Netanyahu is conducting the war but agree with the general principle that Hamas needs to be completely defeated. Israel has achieved most of its goals with Hezbollah and has witnessed Bashar Assad’s exit from Syria. Hamas’s leadership has been decapitated. But Hamas hasn’t surrendered. It is still holding dozens of hostages, many of them dead. Yemen’s Houthi terrorists are still attacking Israel. Iran, the paymaster of these terrorist groups, hasn’t given up its effort to annihilate Israel.

The last thing Israel needs right now is political dysfunction. If Sara Netanyahu did anything that is illegal, that is on her. But the history of Israel’s left using any excuse necessary to remove Benjamin Netanyahu from power casts a shadow over the allegations. Netanyahu’s opponents may be so desperate to get rid of him that they’re willing to go after his wife. This may even entail relying on one media report that is potentially based on questionable evidence. How did they obtain records from the private phone of somebody who has been dead for over a year?

In 1858, Abraham Lincoln, quoting Mark 3:25, said that “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” He was referring to the divide between the North and South over slavery. At the time, the U.S. was growing economically and territorially after the Mexican-American War. The growing nation, separated by oceans on each side from its nearest geopolitical rivals, had very little to worry about from external threats. Yet three years after Lincoln gave his speech, the internal divisions he was referencing ruptured into the U.S. Civil War.

Israel may have the high ground right now in its war on Islamic terror. But domestically, its stability is on a knife’s edge. Unless enough Israelis from both sides agree to bury the hatchet, the problems will only grow deeper.

“When people openly disobey the law and even the military will no longer defend the country, the nation is in real danger,” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in “The Jewish Nation Has No Helper.” “It seems to me that civil war is looming. A few men believe they have the right to make decisions for the whole country and that no elected leaders can stop them. Democracy has been lost in Judah, just as it is being lost in America.”

Whatever happens with the Bleiweiss case, expect turbulent times in Israel unless there is soul-searching repentance among the people at large.