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Netanyahu expresses support for Shin Bet amid onslaught from his coalition
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, at a pre-Passover toast on April 4, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the head of the Shin Bet security service Ronen Bar to back him in the wake of an onslaught of criticism from far-right members of the government.
Netanyahu expressed “his support for him and the members of the service for the important work they do around the clock for the security of the people of Israel,” says a terse statement from Netanyahu’s office.
The statement comes after several coalition lawmakers denounced Bar for reportedly warning that terrorist acts by Jewish Israelis are fueling Palestinian terrorism, asserting that “ideas of the left have reached the top” of the security agency and that senior defense officials do not know how to “distinguish between the enemy and your own people.”
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