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Monday, July 15, 2024
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Monday, July 15, 2024
Ex-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen said to decide not to enter politics
Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen speaks at an event in Switzerland marking 125 years since the First Zionist Congress, August 29, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/File)
Former Mossad spy agency director Yossi Cohen has decided not to enter politics, after months of speculation about whether he would form a new right-wing party at the next elections, Channel 12 news reports.
Instead, Cohen will extend his contract for two more years as director of Israel operations at SoftBank, a leading holding firm that primarily invests in companies operating in the technology, energy, and financial sectors, the report says.
Last month, polling found a right-wing alliance of Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman, former prime minister Naftali Bennett, New Hope head Gideon Sa’ar, and former Mossad director Yossi Cohen would be the largest faction in the Knesset if elections were held today, winning 25 seats.
