The government of Israel Ah fired this Friday at the head of Shin Bet (The Intelligence Service), Ronen Bar, after the prime minister’s cabinet, Benjamin Netanyahuwill vote in favor of dismissal.
The last day of bar at the head of the National Intelligence Service will be April 10, since the government has advanced its dismissal after initially planning it for April 20. However, the Netanyahu office considers it It could start before that date if the ministers approved a permanent replacement.
This is the first time in the story of Israel that a government rejects the leader of Shin Bet.
The bar did not go to the meeting of his termination
The meeting to approve the dismissal lasted about three and a half hours did not already participate in the bar, who knowing that he would be fired sent a letter addressed to the ministers of the Israeli executive in which he warned him His departure was “totally contaminated by conflicts of interest” And it constituted a “basically unreally” attempt to undermine the Shin bet.
The prosecutor General of Israel, Gali Baharav-Ciara, who was present at the meeting, expressed his opposition to the measure. His office had informed Netanyahu on the same day when the government was to obtain the recommendation of a consultative committee before considering the dismissal.
The former head of the Israeli intelligence service relates to its cessation with the research done by Shin Bet The connections of the Netanyahu office with Qatar. “It smells of foreign interests and an unprecedented conflict of interest,” added the bar in the letter reproduced by the Israeli media.
In the letter, Bar criticism in Netanyahu Because, he says, the Prime Minister did not justify the reasons for his dismissal. “Despite my request, no concrete examples have been provided,” he says.
Netanyahu considered him “soft” in office
Meanwhile, Netanyahu said, according to his office, who decided to fire bars because considers it “soft” in office And that “it is not the right person to rehabilitate the organization (Shin Bet)”.
“I managed the diplomatic negotiations for many years. His approach was soft and not aggressive enough,” said Netanyahu in declarations that reproduce local media as The times of Israel.
The hours preceding the dismissal of the bar were framed by thousands of Israelis who took to the street of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to show their refusal of the dismissal, just when this body Investigate on the “catarare” scandalThe alleged payments of this country in Netanyahu ex -asters to create a favorable campaign for the Gulf country.
Years earlier, Shin Bet investigated how CATAR financed the Islamist group Hamas for yearswithout Israel prevent it.
In the streets of Jerusalem, the demonstrators repeatedly repeated that “Netanyahu is a danger to democracy”, as ex -maniembro of Likud, the party of the Israeli president in the statements collected by the local press said.
The protests also joined the forum of the relatives of the hostages and the peaceful groups that They ask for the end of the war in GazaAfter the Israeli government ordered Tuesday to resume the offensive against the Palestinian enclave, where there are still 59 hostages in the hands of Hamas.
