The publication last week of two documents: one, the State Attorney’s Office protocol suggesting a cover-up by its top members; the second, a remarkable interview with Hebrew University law professor Ruth Gavison, raises many questions about the legal system’s ethos and role. Gavison, a distinguished jurist, criticizes the legal establishment for acting as a closed guild, and for trying to impose a Western, secularist, liberal ethos on a pluralistic society. But actually, the legal establishment, especially the Justice Ministry, is thoroughly illiberal.