25/5/2025–|Last update: 11:53 (Mecca time)
Israeli officials and senior Israeli army officers criticized the appointment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, General David Zaini, as head of the Internal Security Service (Shin Bet), and invited him to resign, while former heads of the agency called for the appointment of a transitional president.
The Israeli channel 13 quoted the Israeli army officers as saying that “decorating is inappropriate for the presidency of the Shin Bet and some of us asked him to resign.”
It also quoted them as saying that the president’s dismissed president, Ronin Bar, informed his aides that he would remain in his position if there was no candidate due to legal matters.
In turn, the Israeli public radio quoted the former Israeli chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkot, as saying that the appointment of a young president in wartime turned into a farce.
Eisenkot joined the demands of Zeni’s resignation, and said, “I invite Zeni to have responsibility and rejected the position of the Shin Bet, because his appointment is taking place from distorted considerations.”
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Meanwhile, the Israel Broadcasting Corporation reported that former heads of the Internal Security Service asked the Supreme Court to impose the appointment of Ronin Bar as head of the agency.
The authority added that the former Shin Bets of the Shin Bets requested new procedures to implement an organized and legal process to choose the chief of the Shin Bet.
Netanyahu announced last Thursday evening the appointment of David Zaini as head of the agency, succeeding the current President Ronin Bar, whose term ends on June 15.
This Netanyahu’s decision was met with criticism from Israeli judicial advisor Ghali Bahrav Mayra and the leadership of the Israeli army.
Mayara said that Netanyahu violated the legal instructions by appointing him as a new head of the Shabak, noting that there is fear of conflict of interests in this appointment, as she put it.
For its part, the Haaretz newspaper indicated that the judicial counselor recommended that a new head of the Shabak was not appointed until legal rules were established that guarantee the procedure of procedures.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said that the army leadership was surprised by the decision of Netanyahu to appoint a new chief of the Shabak, and received the announcement in disapproval, noting that the Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir was just 3 minutes before the announcement of the Netanyahu office to appoint Zeni as head of the Shabak, and he was not familiar with the decision and did not participate in it, and Netanyahu did not consult with him.
Earlier, the current president of Shabak, Ronin Bar, announced that he would leave his post in mid -June.
In March, Netanyahu decided to dismiss a bar, which led to a political and legal crisis.
In late April, the Israeli government fell from the dismissal decision after the Supreme Court suspended the decision.
