Deputy AG: Any move to fire Shin Bet chief necessitates legal review by attorney general

1 March 2025, 12:01 am

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Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar attends a farewell ceremony in honor of then-police chief Kobi Shabtai (not pictured), at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, on July 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Amid widespread reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking to remove Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar, Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon wrote in a missive publicized today that “such a decision relating to the head of a security body, certainly one that holds law enforcement powers, necessitates proper procedure based solely on substantive considerations.”

In his response to a query by the Civil Democracy Movement NGO, Limon added: “If such a process is considered, in order to ensure its compliance with the necessary procedural and substantive safeguards, the political leadership must first submit the matter for prior review by the attorney general before advancing it.”