The head of the Israel domestic intelligence service said on Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dismiss him, to meet his refusal to meet inquiries, which included spying on Israeli demonstrators and the disturbance of the leaders’ corruption procedure.
In an affidavit that was presented to the Supreme Court, Ronen Bar, head of Shin Bet, said that Netanyahus Marschin, to dismiss him, was not based on professional reasons, but was triggered by unfulfilled expectations of personal loyalty to the Prime Minister.
In response to this, Netanyahus office rejected the affidavit that was “full of lies”.
Netanyah’s attempt to dismiss the bar in Israel and was suspended by the Supreme Court after political guard dogs and opposition legislators argued that the discharge was illegal.
Critics say that the Israeli government undermines important state institutions and endangers the foundations of the country’s democracy. The Netanyahu Likud party has accused the bar against the prime minister and to convert parts of the Shin -Bet service into “a private militia of the deep state”.
The government of Israel supported Netanyahu, who said that he had lost confidence in the lawyer because the attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023, a security failure that led to the fatal day of the country.
But in the not classified part of his affidavit, Bar argued that the search for the attack began for more than a year. Between November 2024 and February 2025, he quoted a number of events that he said to cause the Prime Minister’s movements against him.
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This included Shin -Bet examinations for Leck’s secret army to the media and possible connections between Netanyahu helpers and Qatar as well as a Shinbette examination to their own mistakes, which also indicated that the government ignored warnings before the attack and political failure of October 7.
The bar also said that he had refused to sign a security application to prevent continuous statements from Netanyahu in his corruption procedure. Netanyahu, which contested any misconduct, began to testify in his longstanding legal proceedings in December. His office denied that he had asked for a shift.
The bar also quoted what he described as non -fulfilled requirements of Netanyahu to the secret service for the secret service against anti -government demonstrators.
Netanyah’s office said that the affidavit of Bar had confirmed that he had failed “pitifully” on October 7th. “This reason alone requires the end of its position,” it said.
It also contested that the move to the sack bar aimed to thwart the so-called “Qatargate” in investigation into allegations of financial relationships between Qatar and Netanyahu areas.
“The discharge should not prevent the examination. Rather, the examination should prevent the discharge,” it said.
The bar accepted Shin Bet’s failure to reserve the attack on October 7 and said it would resign before the end of his term.
The Supreme Court, after listening to the Wachdund and opposition lawyer on April 8, they said that the dismissal of bar was violated from the rejection of the proper procedure of conflicts of interest, does not yet have to decide on the case.
