Former Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen is set to join Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party, according to the Arutz Sheva news outlet.
The report does not indicate which spot Cohen would take on the Yashar electoral list.
It also says that Ram Ben Barak, a former deputy Mossad director and current Yesh Atid MK, will move over to Eisenkot’s slate.
Cohen served as head of the Shin Bet from 2011 to 2016 under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and has since become a fierce critic of the sitting premier.
Last year, Cohen said Netanyahu once asked him to “disqualify” his political rival Naftali Bennett from his security cabinet by revoking his security clearance, citing a case of an unspecified “loyalty problem” while Bennett was serving in the army.
Netanyahu’s office denied the story and accused Cohen of making it up.
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