Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar will resign mid-May, TV report says

Shin Bet security service head Ronen Bar will resign in mid-May, either on the 16th, 17th or 18th of the month, Channel 12 reports.

The report says it does not know if Bar will announce his resignation tomorrow, when he is scheduled to present an affidavit to the High Court of Justice, which earlier this month froze the government’s firing of him.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted in March to fire Bar, citing a breakdown in trust. The unprecedented ouster — which came amid a high-profile, ongoing Shin Bet investigation into several of Netanyahu’s close aides — was immediately challenged. The court ruled two weeks ago that, while a compromise is being sought on the procedure used to fire Bar, he cannot in the meantime be removed from his position.