Despite a temporary injunction against the dismissal of Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Ronen Bar, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named Vice-Admiral (ret.) Eli Sharvit, former head ...

Israel named former naval commander Eliyahu Sharvit as the new head of the country’s domestic-intelligence agency after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed his predecessor over a series of ...

It was recalled that another ex-Navy chief outsider, Ami Ayalon, took over the agency in 1995, in the wake of its failure to prevent the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. It has been ...

we have now – this week – marked 29 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, an event that rocked Israeli society a generation ago, shaking it to its core. In the ...