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Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he would release his domestic chief of spy, one of the last security officials still in the place from Hamas on October 7, in a move that deepened the crisis between the Israeli Prime Minister and the legal authorities of the country.
Netanyahu was informed by Ronen Bar, head of the Intelligence Agency for Shin Bet, at a tense meeting to remove it from a place, depending on the Government’s decision later in the week.
In a recorded video, the Prime Minister said he “had a constant lack of confidence” in a bar that “grew up only over time”.
“I am convinced that this step is crucial in order to organize the organization, achieve all our war goals and prevent the next tragedy,” Netanyahu added, an allusion to the role of Shin Bet Bet, a mass failure of the intelligence that led to Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023.
But the intended dismissal of the bar is likely to further deepen the divisions between Netanyahu and the best legal officials in the country.
State Attorney Gali Baharav-Miara In a statement on Sunday, ordered on Netanyahu that he cannot release the lawyer “until the fact” until the fact and legal basis on which your decision and your ability to deal with this question “is explained.
The tensions between Netanyahua and Bar have increased in recent weeks due to an investigation into the agency on alleged lobbying work previously taken by assistants in the Prime Minister’s Office on behalf of Qatar.
Netanyahu has also recently removed the bar and head of the Israeli side of the Mossad Spy Agency, David Barne, from a team that borrowed to negotiate a host agreement with Hamas in Gaza, claiming that they take a soft line in conversations and miss the unburdened details of the government’s position in the media.
Netanyahu tried to reject the guilt to attack the surprise by Palestinian militants on his safety bosses.
The then Minister of Defense, then Yoav galantwas discharged last November while the military boss Herzi Halevi He was forced earlier this month.
Both officials, as well as bar, publicly took responsibility for their roles in the worst security failure in the history of the country and stated that they intended to deviate when the time was appropriate.
Netanyahu, for his part, has refused to convey any guilt for more than 17 months, to resign, or to determine the date for the new elections.
In a defiant statement later on Sunday, at least he said that his public duty demanded him “continue in my position in the near future” because of the possibilities of renewed hostilities in Gaza, current waves of conversations and the need to “complete numerous sensitive investigations.”
She was also guilty of the attack on October 7 at the foot of the Netanyahu Government, who, according to the bar, laid politics on Hamas in Gaza for years before the attack and neglected Shin Bet warnings.
“The duty of the trust owed by the boss Shin Beth, above all, to the citizens of Israel..
The Government ministers praised the Prime Minister’s move, calling him a long time, while opposition politicians scored him undemocratic and illegal.
“Netanyahu released Ronen at least for one reason: the” Qatar-Gate investigation “. Netanyahu re-put his private interests above the good state and his safety,” wrote Yair Lapid, the opposition leader on the Social Media Platform X, adding that he would pray to the Supreme Court to undo the removal of the bar.
Netanyahu’s cabinet this month began a formal procedure for the independent release of Baharav-Miara, but have already indicated that they do not recognize the powers of the newly named Chief Judge of the Supreme Court and his bench for judgment in constitutional issues.
In the attack on the Hamas attack, where the militants killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostages, Israel saw nine months of direct mass streets protests because of the Netanyahua plan for overhaul of judicial institutions in the country.
The critics of the reform called him authority by the executive authority that would disrupt the powers of courts and legal servants.
