Netanyahu’s party steps up pressure for Shin Bet head to go – Middle East Monitor

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party today accused the head of the domestic intelligence agency of turning parts of the service into “a private militia of the Deep State” and called for him to go, amid a deepening political crisis around the agency, Reuters has reported.

The accusation against Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, who is resisting an order for his dismissal, followed the arrest of an agency official on suspicion of leaking…