The Israeli Supreme Court deems « law » The dismissal of Ronen Bar, the head of internal security – Liberation
An announcement that still thwarts the will of Benyamin Netanyahu. The Israeli Supreme Court judged this Wednesday that the Decision made in March by the government to dismiss the head of the internal security agency – The Shin Bet –Ronen Bar, was « Contrary to the law », According to this 58 -page judgment formulated in response to calls against this measure, the high court statue « That the government’s decision to put an end to the mandate of the chief of the Shin Bet was taken according to an irregular procedure ”.
This judgment marks the end of a juridico-political saga which rocked Israel following the announcement of the dismissal of Ronen Bar on March 21. The decision, against the background of a personal dispute between the chief of the Shin Bet and the Prime Minister Netanyahu, had been immediately frozen by the Supreme Court, Seizure of several appeals, opposition, NGOs and the country’s general prosecutor, disputing an illegal decision and seriously threatening democracy.
The government of Benyamin Netanyahu, one of the most on the right in the history of Israel, had then announced that he renounced the dismissal of Ronen Bar, the day after the announcement at the end of April, that he would leave his duties on June 15. This Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled on the very principle of dismissal.
Detailing the faults committed by the government according to the Court, the judgment evokes « Irregularities » in the process as well as « Abandonment of fundamental principles concerning the internal security service ».
The dismissal of Ronen Bar was notably challenged by the opposition, who saw it as a sign of an autocratic drift of power. He rekindled the divisions of Israeli society in the middle of a war against Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, And resulted in renewed demonstrations against the executive.
Netanyahu said that the government could decide to appoint and return the chief of Shin Bet, to whom he criticized the failure to prevent the bloody attack of Hamas having triggered the war on October 7, 2023.
