Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is increasingly clashing with state institutions, including the police, the domestic spy agency, state prosecutors and even the Supreme Court, NYT reports.
Against that backdrop, he pressed ahead yesterday with efforts to replace a senior intelligence chief, Ronen Bar, who had helped to instigate an investigation of the prime minister’s aides. Netanyahu’s nomination of Eli Sharvit, a former Navy commander, to replace Bar as head of the Shin Bet, the domestic security agency, tests a Supreme Court order that suspended Bar’s dismissal until April 8.
All the while, Netanyahu continues to oversee Israel’s longest-ever war. The Israeli military issued a sweeping evacuation order for the southern Gaza Strip, signaling that it could resume intensive assaults there.
Early this today, the Israeli military said it had conducted a strike on the southern outskirts of Beirut, the second attack near Lebanon’s capital in less than a week.
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