‘There will be no civil war,’ Netanyahu tweets; insists gov’t decides who heads the Shin Bet

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweets, “There will be no civil war!” hours after Israel’s most revered jurist, former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, expressed his fear that the country is heading in that direction due to the government’s recent efforts to fire the head of the Shin Bet security agency and the attorney general.

“The State of Israel is a country of law and according to the law, the Israeli government decides who will be the head of the Shin Bet,” Netanyahu tweets, before adding, “Shabbat Shalom.”

Critics have argued that the government in charge during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught should not be the one replacing Bar. Moreover, they fear that Netanyahu will appoint a loyalist to head the agency, as the premier intensifies his conspiratorial criticism of the “leftist deep state” in Israel.