Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday evening appointed a new Shin Bet chief, ignoring Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara’s directive on Wednesday banning him from being involved in the appointment.
Netanyahu announced his intention to appoint Maj.-Gen. David Zini to the position, replacing Bar, who is scheduled to resign on June 15.
“Zini has served in many operational and command positions in the IDF, including as a fighter in the Sayeret Matkal commando unit, commander of Battalion 51 in the Golani Brigade, commander of the Egoz unit, commander of the Alexandroni Brigade, founder of the Commando Brigade, and commander of the Training and Doctrine Command and commander of the General Staff Corps,” the Prime Minister’s office said.
“In March 2023, Zini prepared a report for the commander of the Gaza Division to examine the division’s preparedness for a complex surprise event, with an emphasis on a surprise raid, and to identify weaknesses. As part of the report’s conclusions, Zini wrote that it is possible to carry out a surprise raid on our forces in almost every sector.”
After the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Netanyahu’s dismissal of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar was “unlawful,” Baharav-Miara wrote a letter to the Prime Minister forbidding him from being involved in appointing the next Shin Bet chief due to what she claims are “conflicts of interest.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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For the past couple hours YWN posted a picture of person that’s yarmulke fell off and the Israeli flag has a cross of x “that religion” in the Star
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There is no bigger “unlawful” and “conflicts of interest” in the world than Baharav-Miara and the Supreme Court