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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 572

Jeremy Sharon

Jeremy Sharon

Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announces that he will step down from his position on June 15, in an address at a memorial event for fallen Shin Bet personnel, April 28, 2025 (Screenshot)
April 29, 2025, 9:07 pm
Government cancels decision to fire Shin Bet chief Bar in wake of his resignation
Watchdog group calls decision ‘a cynical and transparent trick’ to stop High Court ruling on allegations Bar was fired for PM’s personal and political purposes
By Jeremy Sharon
Moti Maman, accused of being recruited by Iran to advance an assassination plot of the prime minister, defense minister, or the head of the Shin Bet, is seen in a court in Beersheba on September 19, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
April 29, 2025, 2:39 pm
Israeli convicted of plotting assassinations for Iran sentenced to 10 years
Court notes Moti Maman twice traveled to Iran while Israel was fighting Iranian proxies; defense says it will appeal ‘disproportionate’ sentence
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announces that he will step down from his position on June 15, in an address at a memorial event for fallen Shin Bet personnel, April 28, 2025. (Screenshot)
April 29, 2025, 12:38 am
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announces he will step down from his role on June 15
Bar, whom cabinet voted last month to fire, sparking ongoing legal battle, says ‘all’ who failed on Oct. 7 must go, stresses need for security agency’s continued independence
By Stav Levaton, Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar attends a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, April 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 28, 2025, 12:59 pm
Bar doubles down on claims, says Netanyahu’s affidavit ‘full of inaccuracies’
Shin Bet chief says premier omitted details about night before Oct 7, ‘never took responsibility’ for funds transferred to Hamas; repeats allegation PM wanted him to act unlawfully
By Jeremy Sharon
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)
April 28, 2025, 1:39 am
Citing transcripts, PM calls Bar’s claim he was fired for political reasons ‘total lies’
Netanyahu denies seeking to use Shin Bet to target protesters or to evade his trial testimony; skirts claim he wanted Bar to obey him rather than High Court; Shin Bet chief slams PM’s ‘inaccuracies, half-truths’
By Jeremy Sharon
Israelis on the beach in Hadera on April 26, 2025, where a man was attacked and killed by a shark during Passover (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
April 27, 2025, 4:18 pm
Daily Briefing Apr. 27: Day 569 – Legal wrangles at ICC, shark attack in Hadera
Legal correspondent Jeremy Sharon discusses latest on war crimes case, and that of Ronen Bar; reporter Sue Surkes reviews Hadera shark attack and community in Ofakim since Oct. 7
By Jessica Steinberg, Jeremy Sharon and Sue Surkes
Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators block a road and clash with police during a protest against the Haredi draft, on Route 4, outside the city of Bnei Brak, May 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 27, 2025, 3:25 pm
High Court orders government to explain failure to draft Haredi men despite 2024 ruling
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students yet to be sent military conscription orders, while response rate to such orders is minimal and IDF’s manpower shortage is acute
By Jeremy Sharon
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (left) Netanyahu at the Knesset, November 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); An exterior view of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024. (AP/Peter Dejong); Then-defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a press conference at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, on November 5, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 25, 2025, 12:35 am
ICC Appeals Chamber rules lower court must hear Israel’s challenge to jurisdiction
Despite a procedural victory for Israel, officials in Jerusalem condemn the fact that court did not cancel the arrest warrants for war crimes charges against Netanyahu and Gallant
By Jeremy Sharon and Nava Freiberg
Members of the Palestinian Red Crescent and other emergency services pray by the bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 31, 2025. Israel has said at least six were Hamas operatives. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
April 24, 2025, 6:39 pm
Rights group petitions High Court to compel IDF to give info on detained Gaza medic
NGO files petition after military says paramedic Asaad Nasasra can’t access lawyer until May 7, Nasasra was arrested during incident in which troops killed 15 rescue workers
By Jeremy Sharon
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the opening ceremony of the Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
April 24, 2025, 5:17 pm
PM granted extension to respond to claims he improperly pressured Shin Bet chief
Netanyahu given until Sunday to file affidavit to High Court on Ronen Bar firing, day after leveling fresh attack against security agency on eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
A fire burns at the Palestinian village of Bardala, April 24, 2025. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 24, 2025, 2:42 pm
Settlers accused of attacking Palestinians, torching buildings in West Bank village
Two people lightly injured by gunfire from Israeli assailants, local resident says, after latest in spate of fiery rampages; no arrests reported
By Nurit Yohanan, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Ronen Bar, chief of Israel's domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool photo via AP)
April 23, 2025, 7:14 pm
Bar’s allegations against Netanyahu have raised the risk of a constitutional crisis
High Court was inclined to simply remedy procedural problems with the Shin Bet chief’s dismissal, but accusations he was fired for political reasons are far more difficult to ignore
By Jeremy Sharon
Gonen Ben Yitzhak is taken by police during demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on July 18, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
April 23, 2025, 2:31 am
Netanyahu reportedly asked Ronen Bar to act against protest leader Gonen Ben Yitzhak
PM’s office calls report that the ‘Crime Minister’ activist was among those Netanyahu wanted Shin Bet to act against ‘another lie’; denies loyalty raised in interviews for Bar’s replacement
By Jeremy Sharon
Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security service, attends a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 22, 2025, 5:52 pm
Ronen Bar said to have told bereaved families he’s ‘committed to resigning’ by May 15
Law enforcement agencies may examine whether Bar’s explosive affidavit over his dismissal by the government raises suspicion of criminal wrongdoing by Netanyahu, Hebrew media reports
By Jeremy Sharon
Rescue forces near the scene where young Israelis were swept away in the flooding of the Tzafit riverbed near the Dead Sea in southern Israel, on April 26, 2018. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)
April 22, 2025, 12:07 pm
Educators sentenced to 7 years over deaths of 10 students in flash flood disaster
Judge links 2018 Tzafit riverbed incident to Oct. 7 massacre, saying those responsible must shoulder the blame for such disasters; father of victim says prison terms too lenient
By Jeremy Sharon
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