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Shin Bet accepts Lapid request to relieve him of security detail
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA ministerial panel on the Shin Bet security agency’s operations has accepted opposition leader Yair Lapid’s request to relieve him of security guards when he is outside his home, reports Channel 12.
Security detail will no longer accompany Lapid, with some exceptions, though the security agency will still secure his home.
The decision can be reversed at his request, the report says.
Channel 12 also reports that the three most threatened figures in Israel, based on Shin Bet data and online incitement to violence, are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
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