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Report: Past and current Shin Bet chiefs and IDF hostage point man to be questioned in Qatargate
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFormer Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon, the IDF’s point man on hostage negotiations, and the current interim Shin Bet chief — whose name is not public — are all reportedly set to be summoned for questioning in the ongoing Qatargate probe.
According to a report on Channel 13 news, the three figures are set to be summoned by police following the interrogation of Maj. Gen. (res) Yoav “Poli” Mordechai last week.
Mordechai, Alon’s deputy, was suspended from Israel’s hostage negotiating team following his police questioning. The report claims that Mordechai told police that the three named figures knew about his ongoing business dealings with Qatar while he was serving as part of the hostage team.
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