Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday evening that he would propose the cabinet to shoot Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar about 18 months before his term.
Netanyahu moves, while the bar examines several top helpers from Netanyahu who are involved in “Qatargate”, a saga in which they were allegedly paid by Qatar, at the same time with the treatment of sensitive hostage guidelines for the prime minister, who was also connected to Qatar.
The police usually examine alleged crimes, but in view of the national security dimensions, the Shin bet took the lead.
It was unclear whether Netanyahu would be able to shoot the bar, since the Attorney General Gali Baharav-Meara or the High Court of Justice could decide that he had a conflict of interest in releasing a law enforcement officer who examines his high-ranking consultants.
From late Sunday evening, The Jerusalem Post Understand that the Attorney General can take the time to put your position on this topic on cards.
An important problem would be if Netanyahu Bar's recent representative “M” would restore the expression of professionalism and the non-polarity of the Saga's result, since the Jerusalem post with Shin-Bet sources confirmed that M is very respected in the agency.
In fact, Netanyahu replaced the bar by M in the negotiation team with Qatar and Hamas about a month ago in relation to the Israeli hostages and seemed to signal that he was trying out as bars.
However, when Netanyahu recruits a new head from outside of the organization, whether this new chief is accepted or not whether they have at least serious defense qualifications, such as:
Although Netanyahu framed his decision as part of a “continued lack of trust” in the Shin Bet Chief, he did not talk to Qatargate in his explanation.
Last week, Netanyahu asked the bar to withdraw from his position, but he declined.
The position of Bar was that he would only withdraw before the expiry date of his five -year term, if and when: 1) all remaining Israeli hostages are returned by ham. and 2) A state investigation into Netanyahus decisions about October 7th is started.
According to the bar, Netanyahu has endangered the life of Israeli hostages several times to continue the war to preserve his coalition in view of the Minister of Finance Betzalel Smotrich, to leave the government when the war ends.
In addition, Bar said that the Shin Bet took responsibility for its numerous and huge failures on October 7 to block the Hamas invasion, but Netanyahu has prevented every attempt to examine its decisions and responsibility for colossal failure.
Bar is afraid that Netanyahu will politicize the Shin bet because the defense company is already afraid that Prime Minister Itamar Ben Gvir will have to do with the police.
During her latest controversial meeting, the Prime Minister reported that the government had “waited for the investigation of the Shin -Bet investigations, and now it is time to hand over the keys”.
In cash previously refused to step down
The bar refused to step down and said Netanyahu that he had to dismiss him if he wanted him to go, according to the N12 report.
The Prime Minister's office reacted to the N12 report with the statement that Netanyahu's decision to hire a new Shin -Bet boss was in order in his state power.
“The one who appoints the head of the Shin -Bet is the government -and not the acting Shin -Bet -Bet boss. This was always the case in a democratic state.”
Under normal circumstances, without Qatargate, this is undoubtedly true.
Whether Baharav-Miara or the High Court enter is an open question.
Sources of NGOs, which are involved in such questions, stated that their leadership discussed a possible petition at the high court in the near future.
All of this also occurs after Bars recommended him for the role, Nadav Argaman told N12 last weekend: “If I come to the conclusion that the Prime Minister has decided to act against the law, there will be no choice – I will say everything I know and have held back to now.”
Argaman's comments come in the middle of the efforts to revive the judicial revision. He said that he still had to reveal certain stressful information because he “would like to preserve the importance of the relationship between the head of the Shin Wett and the Prime Minister”.
This led to an angry reaction from Netanyahu, in which both Argaman and bar accused, although the bar later distanced itself from Argaman's comments to behave like a mafia that tried to dismiss him as the rightly elected representative of the people.
Those who defend Argaman said that he only said that he could reveal the prosecution of potential problematic allegations that he had held back due to the intimate relationships between a prime minister and his Shinwet boss.
In Israel, the Shin bet is also responsible for the secret service detail, which personally protects the prime minister.
However, Netanyahu filed a complaint with the police against Argaman, who stated that the problem was checked.
Netanyahu had shaky relationships with Bar from the beginning, both because the former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appointed him and because the bar did not violently defeated the opposition to overhaul the judiciary.
However, her relationships were frayed much more after October 7, when Netanyahu blamed both bar and the IDF for the catastrophe, which they all admit, and also politically considered political guilt as politically as useful goals.
The bar defeated the youngest former deputy Shin Bet boss in front of him, who was known in October 2021 as “R” in the main two-way race.
Before June 2021, when Netanyahu was a prime minister (the government of Bennet-Yair Lapid, who trusted him in June 2021 to December 2022), the former Senior Shin Bet Officer and Netanyahu's National Security Council boss Meir Ben-Shabbat was the favorite.
But he was never seriously considered by Bennett because of his proximity to Netanyahu and objections to his candidacy within parts of Shin -bet.
Bar had a university degree in political science and philosophy from Tel Aviv University and a master's degree in public management from Harvard University.
The bar served as part of the Elite Sayeret Matkal Reconnaissance Special Forces Unit in the IDF.
Bennett served in the same unit during his IDF service, although he is younger than bar, and some believe that this influenced the final decision.
In 2011, the bar was appointed head of the SHHER Bet operations.
Then he was promoted to the headquarters of the Shin -Bet headquarters in 2016, number three who were responsible for the establishment of Force.
In 2018, he replaced the other head of the agency.
