Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday (March 24, 2025) accused Israel’s inside security chief, whose dismissal was blocked by the Supreme Court, of investigating far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir without his consent.
“The claim that the Prime Minister authorised Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar to gather evidence against Minister Ben Gvir is yet another exposed lie,” Mr. Netanyahu stated in a press release issued by his workplace.
He was responding to a report that Bar’s company had spent months investigating far-right infiltration of the police and its hyperlinks to Ben Gvir.
“The published document, which contains an explicit directive from the Shin Bet chief to gather evidence against political leaders, resembles dark regimes, undermines democracy and aims to bring down a right-wing government,” the assertion added.
Ben Gvir reacted on X, calling Bar a “criminal” and a “liar” who was “trying to deny his attempted conspiracy against elected officials in a democratic country, even after the documents were exposed to the public and the world”.
On Friday, Israel’s Supreme Court froze the federal government’s unprecedented resolution to sack Bar, a transfer that deepened political divisions within the nation.
It got here hours after the federal government, one of probably the most right-wing in Israel’s historical past, backed Netanyahu’s proposal to dismiss Bar, with the prime minister saying he had misplaced confidence in him.
Published – March 24, 2025 10:35 pm IST
