Israeli Defence Forces launched a new rocket weapon in Gaza on April 28 amid ceasefire talks with Hamas. IDF said fired "bar" rocket for the first time. The Bar rockets, developed by Elbit, were ...

TEL AVIV—The head of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency ... The announcement by Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet, that he would step down in mid-June, came after Netanyahu tried to fire ...

Israel's domestic security chief Ronen Bar said Monday he would stand down on June 15 following weeks of tension with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose decision to fire him was frozen by ...

TEL AVIV — The head of Israel’s internal security service says he will resign in June over his agency’s failure to warn of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks — defusing an escalating battle ...

The Israeli PM's plan to dismiss Mr Bar was met with uproar in Israel because the agency is investigating ties between the leader's office and Qatar. Critics said the firing was meant to derail ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Ronen Bar, the head of Israel's domestic security agency the Shin Bet, of lying to the country's top court late on Sunday, and of trying to evade ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved to fire Bar last month over what he said was a crisis of confidence surrounding the Hamas-led terrorist attack. Israel’s Supreme Court froze the firing ...

Mr. Bar has said that the decision to remove him stemmed not from professional considerations, but from “an expectation of personal loyalty.” The case has roiled Israel, epitomizing a long ...

Israel's delayed and impersonal condolences following Pope Francis's death, combined with a low-level funeral delegation and the deletion of a tribute, highlight the political rift rooted in his ...

All the petitioners expressed concern that Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving premier, had used his executive powers to subvert the Israeli democratic system for his own ends. Bar, in a written ...