Levin against the attorney general: Government has authority to fire Shin Bet chief

Justice Minister Yariv Levin slaps back at the attorney general’s determination that the Shin Ber chief cannot be removed prior to a legal review by her office.

“The Shin Bet Law explicitly states that the government has the authority to terminate the service of the head of the agency before the end of their term. This law should be known to the attorney general as well. In case anyone is confused, Israel is a democracy, and everyone in it, including the attorney general, is subject to the law.”

He says the government “must not surrender to threats or attempts to strip the government of its authority,” and claims that “the capitulation to violence and [military] refusal in March 2023” in response to his highly divisive judicial overhaul plan “is what brought us to the current state of lack of governance. Now is a moment of truth for all of us.”