The announcement occurs in the middle of a legal battle on the government’s decision to fire the senior security official last month.
The Chief of National Security of Israel, Ronen Bar, said it would remain on June 15, after the week of boiling tensions with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who cited a lack of confidence while trying to shoot Bar in a movement that caused mass protests.
The two men have publicly negotiated accusations and contracus. There was a political agitation, but Netanyahu’s survival tactics seem to have prevailed.
“After 35 years of service, to allow an orderly process to appoint a permanent successor and for professional delivery, I will end my role on June 15, 2025,” said Shin Bet Chief a commemorative event at the Heis agency, according to a statement on Monday.
Bar had played the dismissal in a legal case that polarized the country. In a sworn statement before the Supreme Court on Sunday, Netanyahu described the bar as a “liar.”
The comment occurred almost a week after Bar made a affidavit before the court in what the prime minister accused of demanding personal loyalty and ordering him to spy on anti -government protesters.
“The accusation, according to which I allegedly demanded actions against innocent civilians, or against a non -violent and legitimate protest during the protests of 2023, is an absolute lie,” Netanyahu said in his judicial statement.
In turn, Bar denied the accusations of Netanyahu and his associates that the Shin Bet security agency had not issued timely warnings about Hamas’ unprecedented attack on October 7, 2023, against Israel that triggered the war in Gaza.
Bar argued that his expulsion was motivated by the desire to stop the “search for truth” about the events that led to October 7 and also the positions of corruption that are hung on Netanyahu in an Ontalyahu trial already long term.
Netanyahu proposes to Vice Admiral Eli Sharvit as the next Shin Bet chief, but reversed his nomination after the United States criticized the selection, a key sponsor of Israel.
Bar dismay was announced by the government last month frozen by the Supreme Court. The measure caused mass manifestations, with critics accusing Netanyahu and his government to undermine the institutions that support Israel’s democracy by seeking the elimination of bar.
Some Israelis denounced what they saw as an autocratic change for Netanyahu, who has political trial processes against several critics, including Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.
The Israeli Parliament last month approved a law that granted politicians more power over the appointment of judges, a key component of the Netanyahu Plan to review the Judicial Power of the country.
According to the Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, who sponsored the bill, the measure intended to “restore balance” between the legislative and judicial branches. Critics, however, said that the new law was a “clavo in the coffin of Israeli democracy.”
The general judicial reform package caused one of the greatest protest movements in Israel’s history in 2023 before public worry was overcome by the war in Gaza.
