Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar says that despite the many complex challenges facing the State of Israel, the security agency is currently at its best.
Speaking at a ceremony held at the Shin Bet headquarters in Tel Aviv alongside families of fallen operatives, Bar says he would not recommend that Israel’s enemies try to test the Jewish state.
“These are complicated times: very difficult disputes at home, the development of new threats abroad, a sense that different fronts are converging and challenges are mounting,” Bar says. “But this is also the time when the agency is at its best.”
Bar says that “to all those outside [Israel], who wish for a widening of the rift at home, and are even attempting to help with this and are testing us with acts of terror, incitement and indirect fire — I wouldn’t recommend counting on it.”
“And I wouldn’t count on trying to test the [security system],” he adds. “They will be met in their camps and in their homes.”
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