The Supreme Court of Israel provided an injunction on Friday to temporarily freeze the discharge of the head of the domestic secret service, as can be seen from a judgment published on the court’s website.
The judgment will enable the court to examine petitions against the dismissal, which was unanimously approved by the cabinet in the late Thursday, with a decision on April 8 at the latest, the declaration says.
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamim Netanyahu announced last week that he had lost the confidence in Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar and intended to relieve him, and prompted tens of thousands to accompany demonstrations in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv this week, which saw critics as an attempt to substantiate the most important state institutions.
In a letter published on Thursday, Bar said that the discharge, the weeks of tension about an investigation of allegations of bribes, in which Qatar and the helpers in Netanyah’s office were involved, was based on unfounded allegations and was motivated by other illegitimate concerns.
The protests that build on earlier waves against government demonstrations have to resume the bombing of the Palestinian enclaves with actions by supporters of the Israeli hostages that were still in Gaza and who were shocked by the decision after weeks of an armistice.
Netanyahu, with a safe majority in parliament and through the return of the Hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, were able to abbreviate the protests, but underlined divisions in Israeli society that have deepened since returning to power at the end of 2022.
The discharge of bar was followed by more than two years of hostility between Netanyahu supporters and elements of the security and defense company, which was worsened by fault of the failures, which enabled the attack on October 7, 2023 by Hamas, the worst security disaster in the history of Israel.
Before the war in Gaza, there were mass protests against Netanyahus plans to contain the power of the judiciary, a step that he justified as a necessary review of the judicial crossing, which the demonstrators regarded as a direct threat to democracy.
