The days of Ronen Bar as Israel's Shin Bet chief were already numbered after Hamas's deadly attack on October 7, 2023, having ...

The law does not specify a proceeding for dismissing the head of the Shin Bet. Section 3 of the General Security Service Law ...

Bar will step down on April 10, 2025, or upon the appointment of a permanent successor, whichever occurs first.

The Israeli government unanimously approved early on Friday a proposal from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dismiss Shin ...

When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced this weekend that he was seeking to dismiss the top brass of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet, he claimed that it was down to a ...

The decision followed months of tension between Ronen Bar and Benjamin Netanyahu over a corruption investigation.

"If I come to the conclusion that the State of Israel or the prime minister himself is acting unlawfully, then, if necessary, I will disclose everything I know." ...

Mr. Netanyahu’s plan to hold a cabinet vote on the future of Ronen Bar, the head of the agency known as the Shin Bet, was announced less than a month after his government announced a similar ...

The Israeli prime minister’s effort to remove the Shin Bet chief is raising concerns about whether he was seeking to undermine the agency’s independence. By Adam Rasgon and Natan Odenheimer ...

After months of tension, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he would seek to remove the chief of the Shin Bet security service, Ronen Bar. Netanyahu met with Bar and informed ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans Sunday to remove Ronen Bar, the head of Israel's powerful Shin Bet ...