State Comptroller’s Office summons two former senior Shin Bet officials to meet over October 7 probe

The director of the State Comptroller’s Office Yishai Vaknin issues a summons to two former senior officials in the Shin Ben for them to meet with State Comptroller agents and present documents relating to the office’s wide-ranging probe into the multi-level failures surrounding the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion and massacre.

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman and his office have been conducting a broad investigation into these failures, and says in a statement to the press that this includes examining the role of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence and security agency.

The agency says it has written to the lawyers of the two former senior officials protesting their failure to answer previous requests for meetings, and issues the new summons under a clause of the Law for the State Comptroller empowering that office to impose sanctions on an individual failing to comply with such a summons, which includes a prison sentence of up to two years.

According to the State Comptroller’s Office, requests for meetings were sent to the two former officials in July this year, but the two failed to coordinate with the agency’s officials, despite an agreement worked out by the High Court of Justice with the IDF and the Shin Bet enabling the State Comptroller’s probe into those two security bodies.