Ronen Bar's titanic battle with Bibi after the latter fired him will continue to echo through Israeli society
Going, going … and after holding on to the reins for months, Ronen Bar was finally gone. The disgraced Shabak chief who failed to warn of the impending attack on October 7 despite the warning signs hours before, may finally have resigned on the eve of Israel’s Remembrance Day.
But his titanic battle with Bibi after the latter fired him — a struggle that played out in court — will continue to echo through Israeli society as all involved attempt to evade responsibility.
Ahead of former Shin Bet head Ronen Bar’s High Court affidavit last week, Binyamin Netanyahu, with the help of his de facto legal advisor, cabinet secretary Yossi Fuchs, desperately maneuvered to reach an understanding that would bury the damning document — but by that point, the writing was on the wall.
I spoke with Yossi Fuchs moments after the High Court session, which he attended to whisper in the ear of Netanyahu’s able criminal defense attorney, Zion Amir. It was a short trip from the prime minister’s office to the courtroom for Fuchs, who lives and breathes administrative law.
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