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(Top L) Nadav Argaman at the Knesset, November 6, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90) and (Top R) Ami Ayalon on March 27, 2023 (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90) and (Bottom L) Yoram Cohen in Jerusalem, April 8, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90) and (Bottom R) Carmi Gillon in Jerusalem, December 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 13, 2026, 7:52 pm
Ex-Shin Bet chiefs, top brass decry ‘unprecedented attacks’ on agency by PM and allies
36 former officials accuse Netanyahu and his associates of attempting to absolve him of responsibility for Oct. 7 and convince his base there’s no need for state commission
By ToI Staff
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)
November 13, 2025, 4:25 am
Zini asks court to reject petition against his appointment from ex-Shin Bet chiefs
Shin Bet head says predecessors looking to ‘police opinions,’ says accusations of being ‘messianic’ are ‘derogatory,’ used against ‘anyone who dares to be proud of their Judaism’
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
David Zini at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on August 6, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 17, 2025, 12:47 pm
4 ex-Shin Bet heads file objections to appointment of Zini as security agency chief
Nadav Argaman, Ami Ayalon, Yoram Cohen, Carmi Gillon send separate letters to appointments panel day after 260 officials said to warn Zini may trample democracy
By ToI Staff
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 23, 2025, 12:44 pm
Government seeking to operate ‘above the law,’ AG charges ahead of no-confidence vote
Baharav-Miara says motion aims to promote loyalty to politicians; retired Supreme Court justices warn her dismissal ‘would seriously endanger Israel’s status as a nation of laws’
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Head of the Otzma Yehudit party National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
August 29, 2023, 12:30 pm
Ben Gvir bars cops from ‘radical left’ Wexner Foundation leadership program
Alongside police, all National Security Ministry employees also prohibited from participating in vaunted fellowship that allows Israeli civil servants to study policy at Harvard
By Canaan Lidor
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (center), Justice Uzi Vogelman (left) and Justice Isaac Amit (right) at a hearing of the High Court of Justice on petitions against the appointment of Shas party leader Aryeh Deri as a minister due to his recent conviction for tax offenses, January 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 19, 2023, 8:05 pm
High Court sets September date to hear petition demanding Netanyahu ouster
September 12 hearing on alleged conflict of interest breach to be presided over by Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, Justice Uzi Vogelman and Justice Isaac Amit
By ToI Staff
Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 8, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 21, 2023, 2:29 pm
Over 400 ex-Shin Bet agents urge Likud minister Dichter to abandon judicial overhaul
Security service veterans warn former agency chief, now agriculture minister, that legislation is ‘coup’ against democracy; among signatories, 3 other past leaders of organization
By ToI Staff
Arab Israelis protest rising violence, organized crime and recent killings in their communities, in the Arab town of Majd al-Krum in northern Israel. October 3, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)
October 3, 2021, 7:48 pm
Government move to enlist Shin Bet to fight rising crime splits Arab Israelis
As murders sweep Arab cities, state hopes to bring the secretive agency into the fight. Some worry about cost to civil liberties
By Aaron Boxerman
Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin speaks in Tel Aviv in 2012. (Tali Mayer/Flash90)
February 28, 2020, 6:12 am
Former Mossad, Shin Bet heads call Netanyahu ‘a danger’ who puts country at risk
In video, six ex-security chiefs say prime minister has lost right to lead country, uses sensitive classified information for personal gain
By ToI Staff
Former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 1, 2018, 5:46 pm
Former Shin Bet chief pleads with president to not sign nation-state law
Ami Ayalon tells Rivlin his ‘hand will tremble’ if he moves to approve controversial legislation, warns it will deepen rifts between Israeli ‘tribes’
By ToI Staff
Retired IDF major general Amnon Reshef of the Commanders for Israel's Security group seen at press conference in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2015, where the group criticized the security and political conduct of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)
January 15, 2017, 11:39 am
Advertising in Arabic, ex-generals urge separation from Palestinians
Group warns in full-page poster that lack of Palestinian state threatens Israel’s security and Jewish character
By ToI Staff
The West Bank settlement of Eli, north of Ramallah. (Akivapath/Wikipedia/CC BY 3.0)
September 5, 2016, 10:40 pm
Ex-security men urge referendum on fate of West Bank territories
Activist group led by Ami Aylon, Amram Mitzna issues plea to Netanyahu ahead of next year’s 50th Six Day War anniversary
By AP
An Israeli Navy ship during a major exercise held in the Red Sea off the coast of Eilat, March 2016. (IDF spokesperson)
September 2, 2016, 7:42 pm
Can Israel become a maritime power?
A commission of former Israeli and American navy admirals and policymakers is calling for the Jewish state to take a far greater role in securing and administering the Eastern Mediterranean, so the US doesn’t have to
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Moshe Ya'alon in the Knesset on March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 25, 2016, 7:26 pm
Ya’alon rips coalition chair for scorning security chiefs as ‘leftist’
Ousted defense minister says Likud MK David Bitan enabling ‘dangerous political attempts to destroy the security establishment’
By ToI Staff
Coalition Chairman MK David Bitan on January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 25, 2016, 2:12 pm
Coalition chair: Security chiefs ‘all become leftists’ on the job
Likud MK David Bitan says ‘there’s a problem’ with officials that lead Mossad, Shin Bet, as their positions take them left over time
By ToI Staff
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