The head of Israeli intelligence says Netanyahu ordered the higher court

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Israeli’s internal intelligence head accused Benjamin Netanyahu of demanding that he be ready to abandon the Supreme Court of the country when he had outlined a number of claims against the Prime Minister, with whom he was recorded in a legal battle.

In a sworn statement in the Supreme Court on Monday, Beta head Ronne Bar said he was also asked to use his spy agency’s powers to control anti-government protesters and stop the current lawsuit against the Prime Minister’s corruption.

The document was filed before further reflections by the judges on whether there is Netanyahu Can legally dismiss the chief of the spy. Its government Fired Bar last month But the Supreme Court issued a ban, stopping the removal until its legality is resolved.

This happened amid a broader collision between the government and the Israeli judicial authorities. The bar stated in a statement that Netanyahu demanded that any future constitutional confrontation “I (should) obey the Prime Minister, not the Supreme Court.”

As this demand has been made, concern has increased that the shooting at the bar could become a trigger for the constitutional crisis if the Netanyahu government refused to comply with the Supreme Court ruling.

In the document, the Shin Bet leader said Netanyahu tried to politicize the internal intelligence service for his personal and political goals, adding that the break of the two men had followed from the lawyer’s refusal.

“The origin (from my shooting) was not in a professional dimension, but rather … expectation of personal loyalty to me to the Prime Minister,” the bar wrote.

The bar said at the end of last year he refused to push Netanyahu a substantiation of security, as Israel participated in numerous conflicts to allow the prime ministers to avoid testimony in his long corruption lawsuits.

He also refused to use the powerful reconnaissance instruments of his agency to spy on the protesters against the government, wrote in a public statement, which was subjected to a dozen pages, including the united parts that were not published.

The bar said the full document included evidence of all its claims.

Netanyahu said in the office: “Ronne Bar’s testimony is full of lies and reveals his failures.”

Netanyahu Allies in the government and social media, including his son Jair, have in recent weeks, have strengthened attacks on the college, accusing him of treason and management of the “secret police” and “private police”, which they compared to East German Stasi.

These attacks are part of a broader public attack on the part of the government on what Netanyahu called the “deep state”Including an attempt to put the only guilt for the devastating attack of Hamas on October 7, 2023 on the security heads.

Israeli legal authorities, including Shin Bet, also investigated Netanyahu’s chief assistants for allegedly conducting paid lobbying Name of Qatar and leakage of classified documents.

In addition to the lawyer, the government tried to withdraw the Prosecutor General and refused to recognize the appointment of a modern Supreme Court, while the Chief of Staff of the military and the Minister of Defense had already been removed from his post.

Netanyahu’s Allies even raised the conspiracy theories that believe that the bar, along with other security chiefs, simply allowed to attack Southern Israel on October 7 in Israel in an attempt to abandon the Prime Minister.

The bar, in his statement, called such allegations “lies, which represent no less than the institutional incitement to me and (Shin Bet).”

He said that more than an hour before Hamas’s devastating attack, he ordered that Netanyahu military secretary was reported by irregular intelligence signs coming out of Gaza.

Netanyahu said on Monday that his military assistant was reported only minutes ahead of the Palestinian militants’ attack on October 7. He denied that he asked for measures to delay the trial or addressed “illegal action” against anti -government protesters.

“Ronne Bar is the father of failure (October 7) and he has to go home,” Netanyahu added.

The Prime Minister invariably refused to express any appointment for the worst loss of life in the history of Israel and stopped the creation of the National Investigation Commission to complete the attack.

On Sunday, the opposition leader Yair Lapid warned against the target, citing “the level of incitement and madness that are unprecedented.”

Lapid added: “If we do not stop it, there will be a political murder. Perhaps more than one. Jews will kill Jews.”

Earlier, the bar recognized the responsibility for the failures that allowed Hamas to attack and stated that he intended to leave the post by the end of his term.

In a statement, he said that he would “assign his departure in the near future, but stated that the court hearing was crucial in order for his successor to remain non -political, professional and law -abiding.