Ex-Tel Aviv top cop says he was dismissed for failing to carry out Ben Gvir’s agenda

8 August 2025, 9:14 pm

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Tel Aviv District Commander of the Police Amichai Eshed holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, announcing his resignation, on July 5, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

The former Tel Aviv District commander, Amichai Eshed, says he was removed from his position amid 2023 protests against the government’s controversial judicial overhaul proposals because he did not carry out National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s agenda.

“I am no longer in the police because I didn’t succeed in carrying out the agenda, not the political, or the operational, of the national security minister,” he tells Channel 12 news.

He says that he felt compelled to be very aggressive against the protesters, as if to show that “someone was taking control of those Tel Avivians.”

He describes the departure from his role as a “dismissal.”