Excerpts from the Arutz Sheva's news report:

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A "secret document" of a meeting of General Security Service and State
Prosecution officials reveals that the two bodies made a "pact to
hide" facts about GSS agent provocateur Avishai Raviv, according to MK
Michael Eitan. It also shows that GSS agents, only a few months after
the assassination, felt that "if we had cut off our connections with
Raviv, maybe he would have turned the murderer over to us."
Television talk show host Nissim Mishal, whose guest MK Eitan was
about to reveal the contents of the document on air last night,
suddenly received instructions from Attorney-General Elyakim
Rubenstein that the document's disclosure would "endanger public
security," and was forbidden.

Both Mishal and Eitan reacted with surprise to the order, saying there
was nothing secret about the document. Eitan said, "When you try to
fight the GSS and the State Prosecution, they are just too strong -
they control things in this country that not even the Prime Minister,
or the government, or the Knesset, controls, and they ignore the
public - they claim 'public security,' when it's really only their own
internal issues." Eitan claims that Rubenstein is attempting to
prevent the revelation of a pact between the GSS and the Prosecution
to hide the fact that Raviv did not act on his own.

The document also quotes a GSS agent as telling the Attorney-General
and the others at the meeting that a previous State Prosecutor had
approved activity by Raviv at Bar Ilan University that would
incriminate "someone else." The document shows that both the
Prosecution and the GSS representatives were seeking ways to close the
investigation against Raviv, while Attorney-General Rubenstein was
against closing it.

Arutz-7's Haggai Segal notes that Rubenstein's action was fairly
unprecedented. Segal said that when two GSS agents were imprisoned in
Amman after the bungled assassination attempt of a Hamas leader, the
head of the Mossad begged the press not to publicize the news in order
not to hurt chances for a quick release - but Rubenstein did not
intervene to order or ask the media to be silent.

MK Michael Eitan reacted with bitterness to the order blocking the
publication of the document. He told Arutz-7 today, "Instead of
answering my grave complaints about the fact that the Shabak and the
State Prosecution made a pact and submitted false information to the
government ministers, and concealed information from the government
and the public - they accuse me of leaking classified information, so
that I'll have to answer their charges, instead of them answering
clearly my charges. For example, I claimed that when the head of the
GSS came before the special security cabinet forum - which I convened
when I was a government minister - to discuss indicting Raviv, the GSS
head told us clearly that the GSS decided that it should not
investigate him, and that the police found that Raviv knew nothing and
was not involved in the assassination. But I tell you that this is
totally misleading and false - the Shabak DID interrogate him, and the
whole story was meant to mislead the ministers... They simply want to
ensure that the story of Avishai Raviv not be made public... This
document contains nothing that will harm state security... Do you have
any doubt that Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein would trouble
himself to call television stations and newspapers and threaten them
if he thought that the document would not embarrass the Prosecution?!"

"The large picture," concluded Eitan, "is that this document shows
that my long-time basic assumption is correct, that there is a pact
between the GSS and the Prosecution to go above the levels responsible
for them, and even above the law. They run things as if they are above
every suspicion, and no one can ask or raise any doubts about
them... How could it be that the newspapers are not rising up against
threats by the Atty.-Gen. not to publish a document that has no
bearing on state security! [The Prosecution] doesn't want it published
because it will show how the two bodies work together to fool the
government and the public, and they don't want it publicized because
it's THEM. Civil rights of people have been trampled - trampled! And
instead of punishing those who were guilty, and instead of leading the
campaign to look out for civil rights, the Prosecution cooperated with
them, became a rubber stamp, and became their partner."

MK Benny Elon said that the document shows how anxious the relevant
bodies were to ensure that Avishai Raviv would not be tried, in order
that he not take the witness stand: "They searched for excuses not to
hold the trial, such as 'no public interest' and 'insufficient
evidence,' and Rubenstein tried to disassociate himself from these
ideas, and said that he doesn't want to be involved in closing the
file."