Israel’s Cabinet votes to sack head of internal security service

Ronen Bar, chief of Israel’s domestic Shin Bet security agency (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool photo via AP)

Israel’s Cabinet has approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to sack the head of the country’s Shin Bet internal security service.

The late-night decision to sack Ronen Bar deepens a power struggle focused largely over who bears responsibility for the October 7 2023 Hamas attack that sparked the war in Gaza.