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Shin Bet chief said ignoring AG’s instruction not to carry out requests from PM that could impact graft trial
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Shin Bet chief David Zini attends the state memorial ceremony marking 30 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, November 3, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
Shin Bet chief David Zini has been ignoring a letter from Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara instructing him that any requests he receives from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that could impact the premier’s corruption trial be referred to the security agency’s legal adviser, Channel 12 news reports.
The network says the letter cites previous “improper requests” by Netanyahu and tells Zini to ask the Shin Bet legal adviser for a legal opinion, but notes Zini didn’t do so when he told the court that the prime minister cannot attend the hearings in his criminal trial due to security threats against him.
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