Former Shin Bet chief sues Netanyahu for defamation, says he warned him more than 20 times about Hamas

Former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar filed a defamation lawsuit against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Tel Aviv District Court on Wednesday, seeking three million shekels in damages over allegations concerning intelligence failures preceding the 7th October 2023 Hamas attack. The lawsuit follows a 28th September post on X in which Netanyahu accused Bar of deliberately withholding intelligence from him on the eve of the attack and alleged that the former security chief had committed “failures and offenses.” In the filing, Bar accused Netanyahu of spreading what he described as a “blood libel” against him in an attempt to shift responsibility for the failures that preceded the attack. Bar said he had repeatedly warned Netanyahu about Hamas’s growing […]