Israel’s authorities introduced Tuesday it had reversed the choice to dismiss home safety chief Ronen Bar, a day after he stated he would resign following weeks of tensions with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The government has decided to revoke its decision of March 20, 2025” to sack Bar, it stated in a doc submitted to the Supreme Court, a replica of which was obtained by AFP.
The authorities’s transfer to fireplace Bar, head of the Shin Bet safety company, had been frozen by the highest courtroom and triggered mass protests.
Bar has contested his sacking in a authorized case that has divided the nation and introduced out conflicting testimonies of occasions main as much as Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 assault.
Israeli left-leaning newspaper Haaretz reported that the most recent transfer to revoke the dismissal seems “aimed at preempting a potentially precedent-setting high court ruling on petitions challenging Bar’s ouster.”
Bar on Monday stated he would stand down on June 15.
In a current sworn assertion to the Supreme Court, he accused Netanyahu of demanding private loyalty and ordering him to spy on anti-government protesters.
On Sunday, Netanyahu filed an affidavit of his personal to the courtroom calling Bar a “liar.”
Source: www.dailysabah.com