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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Israel Police official says Macron complaint was to Shin Bet, not police
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA spokesperson for the Israel Police says the Israeli security agents who aroused French President Emmanuel Macron’s ire at a Jerusalem church earlier today were not from the Israel Police, but from the Shin Bet agency.
The Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, has a unit charged with protecting the top officials of the state and the most senior of visiting leaders.
Macron was angry that Israeli officers assigned to protect him as he toured the Old City of Jerusalem followed him into the Church of St. Anne on the Via Dolorosa, a French territory where Israeli security services have no jurisdiction.
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