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Lapid urges PM’s Shin Bet appointee not to accept role
Opposition leader Yair Lapid urges Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pick to head the Shin Ben domestic security agency to turn down the appointment, saying the process was tainted by conflict of interest.
Lapid in a statement calls on David Zini “to announce that he cannot accept his appointment until the Supreme Court rules on the matter,” adding that “Netanyahu has a serious conflict of interest in the matter of appointing a Shin Bet chief due to the Qatargate scandal in which the people closest to him received money from an Arab country that supports terrorism.”
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