After months of tension, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he would seek to remove the chief of the Shin Bet security service, Ronen Bar. Netanyahu met with Bar and informed him that he would propose his removal to the government this week,

The Israeli prime minister’s effort to remove the Shin Bet chief is raising concerns about whether he was seeking to undermine the agency’s independence.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will seek the dismissal of the director of the Shin Bet internal security service this week, following a power struggle over the Hamas attack that sparked the war in Gaza.