Taking on the ‘deep state’ or paving the way to autocracy? Why PM Netanyahu wants to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar

Taking on the ‘deep state’ or paving the way to autocracy? Why PM Netanyahu wants to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar (Image source: Flash90 edited by All Israel News Staff)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to dismiss the director of the domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, and the fierce opposition to it, threatens to plunge Israel back into the days of daily mass protests and ominous warnings of civil war. So, what happened?

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