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Ronen Bar

Ronen Bar is the current head of the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), the country's primary internal security service.

(L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar

High Court rejects gov't request to cancel order on Shin Bet chief's dismissal

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Systemic Shin Bet leaks are erosion of security services integrity, apolitical nature

By JPOST EDITORIAL
ILLUSTRATION: Benjamin Netanyahu and Ronen Bar

Gov't seeks to cancel interim order preventing it from firing Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar

By BINI ASHKENAZI , JERUSALEM POST STAFF
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 24, 2025

Ben-Gvir: Shin Bet head is trying to overthrow a democratically elected gov't
By 103FM
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Gaza Strip. April 16, 2025.

Shin Bet official excluded from Netanyahu's Gaza visit
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

What are Israel's next steps after new Shin Bet leak rocks tensions with the gov't?
By ELIAV BREUER
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, December 31, 2024

Netanyahu cancels briefing with Shin Bet chief due to Smotrich boycott
By AMICHAI STEIN , JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A protest against the firing of Shin Bet head Ronen Bar.

Qatargate: A timeline of the scandal plaguing Israel, Netanyahu, and the PMO
By TAMAR URIEL-BEERI
Portrait of former Deputy Director of Shin Bet Yisrael Hasson, January 15, 2024.

Ex-Shin Bet deputy chief: Netanyahu failed to act as 'responsible adult' when dismissing Ronen Bar
By 103FM
FORMER SHIN BET director Yoram Cohen receives protection amid a stormy scene at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, as the High Court holds a hearing on the cabinet’s firing of the current Israel Security Agency chief, Ronen Bar. Cohen alleges that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked of the Shin Bet

Politicizing the Shin Bet endangers Israel's national security
By ERAN SHAMIR-BORER , AMICHAI COHEN
A Palestinian Hamas terrorist speaks with a Stephanie Eller before the release of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 15, 2025.

Almost half of Israelis do not think you can remove Hamas and release hostages
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
MK Tally Gotliv speaks outside the court in Tel Aviv during a case against Eli Feldstein, November 21, 2024

How Israeli lawmakers from the Right and Left view High Court’s ruling on Shin Bet head
By Gabriel Colodro/The Media Line
MK Almog Cohen reacts during a discussion and a vote in the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on February 22, 2023.

MKs cannot disrupt court proceedings, says court legal advisor
By ELIAV BREUER
Illustrative image of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar superimposed on an image of Israelis protesting judicial reform.

Netanyahu must choose compromise to preserve Israel's democracy
By JPOST EDITORIAL
Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security services and Mossad chief David Barnea attend a farewell ceremony in his honor, at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, on July 14, 2024.

IDF, Mossad, Shin Bet heads not invited to security cabinet discussion
By AMICHAI STEIN , JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the District court in Tel Aviv, as part of the criminal trial against him, April 2, 2025

Netanyahu 'puzzled' by court decision to freeze firing of Ronen Bar
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Illustrative image of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ronen Bar

High Court, Shin Bet chief and the fate of Israeli democracy
By YONAH JEREMY BOB
Israeli public opinion the government following the High Courts ruling on the firing of Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar.

Israeli public divided on government obeying High Court's Shin Bet ruling
By JOANIE MARGULIES
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