Amid his continued push to oust Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses the domestic security agency of “persecuting right-wing activists.”
In a post on X right before the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu shares a recording of a conversation between the head of the Shin Bet’s Jewish Division and a senior police officer in the West Bank, during which the former discusses wanting to use a controversial practice to detain a suspect without charge.
The conversation ends with the police officer, Cdr. Avishai Muallem, telling the Shin Bet agent that “you have nothing on [the suspect].”
The recording comes several weeks after the release of an earlier tape of the Shin Bet official and Muallem — who is suspected of ignoring Jewish nationalist attacks to curry favor with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir — generated outcry over the agent’s description of radical settler youths as “shmucks,” leading him to suspend himself.
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