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The commitment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dismiss a senior security official has threatened to submerge Israel in a deep political crisis, with the opponents on Monday organizing protests and a former court president warning against the “dangerous” movement.

Netanyahu cited a “lack of continuous confidence” on Sunday as the reason to move to Sack Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet’s internal security agency, after a similar government offer to expel the attorney general.

Bar, who has participated in a public dispute with Netanyahu in recent weeks about the reforms to the agency, suggested that there were political reasons behind the decision of the prime minister to ask the government to fire him.

Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara is the main legal advisor of the Executive who often took positions that faced those of the Netanyahu government, said that the measure had no precedents “and that his legality should be evaluated.

Bar said he arose from his own refusal to meet Netanyahu’s demands of “personal loyalty.”

The agency led by Bar has been accused of not avoiding Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.

The reports of the Israeli media say that Shin Bet was also investigating some of Netanyahu’s assistants for allegedly receiving Qatar payments, which houses the leaders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, even when Gaza’s War broke out.

Several opposition parties have already announced that they will jointly request the Superior Court against the dismissal of Bar, and the Attorney General said in a letter to Netanyahu that he could not initiate the process “until the factual and legal basis of his decision is completely clarified.”

Baharav Miara is threatened with a motion of non -confidence presented by Justice Minister Yariv Levin, who has headed efforts to reform the Judiciary and stop the powers of the Court a plan that caused important protests before stopping abruptly with the 2023 attack of Hamas.

Levin has accused Baharav Miara, a fierce accused of the independence of the Judiciary, of “inappropriate conduct” and cited “significant and prolonged disagreements between the government and the attorney general.”

The procedure against the two figures promises to be long, risking a repetition of the 2023 protest movement that was one of the most significant in Israel’s history and had fractured deeply to the country.

Kaplan’s force, a liberal umbrella organization that led the fight against judicial reform, announced demonstrations in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv this week to protest the dismissal of Shin Bet’s head.

The move to Sack Bar, which has been involved in negotiations on the high fragile fire in Gaza, arrives at a crucial moment for conversations.

The truce has remained largely since January 19 despite a dead point in the efforts to extend it.

Since the Gaza War began, Netanyahu has fired its Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, while several senior military officials resigned, including the head of the Army Herzi Halevi.

Benny Gantz, an opposition figure that once served as a defense minister under Netanyahu, said in X that “the dismissal of the head of Shin’s bet is a direct blow to national security and a dismantling of unity within Israeli society, driven by political and personal considerations.”

The former president of the Supreme Court, Dorit Beinisch, told Kan Public Radio that Netanyahu led “processes that are dangerous to society.”

“We need to wake up and wake up on time,” he said.

For Netanyahu’s allies, the movement against the bar falls within the normal rights of the head of government.

“In which normal country is a special reason necessary to eliminate the head of an intelligence organization that is personally responsible for a failure of massive intelligence that led to the greatest disaster in the history of Israel?” The Minister of Finance of the extreme right, Bezalel Smotrich, wrote in Telegram.

Nahum Barnea, columnist of the Daily Yidth Ahronoth, warned of the dangers derived from the clash between Netanyahu and Bar.

“A prime minister who has lost the brakes will rule as he considers it convenient, and his failed government will continue in his path,” he wrote.

“Little by little it is bringing us closer to a form of civil war … in which there is no trust and a refusal to obey in security organizations.”

To Amir Tibon, writing for the Journal of Left Haretz, “Israeli democracy is now in serious danger.”

“It is up to the Israelis to decide whether they will accept the hostile-harassment of Hostile Power of Netyahu and how far they will come to stop it.”

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