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The Council of Ministers in Israel voted to vote the head of the Internal Security Agency for a bet, in a move that is likely to intensify the confrontation between the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s legal authorities.

Thousands of demonstrators outside the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem, in the early hours of Friday, challenged the cabinet unanimously to dismiss Ronin Bar, after Netanyahu said he lost confidence in the local espionage president.

“Ronin Barr will end his role in the role of Shin B on April 10, 2025 or when a permanent bet is set – whichever comes first,” the Netanyahu office said in a brief statement.

Tensions have collapsed between Netanyahu and Bar since the devastating Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel, which is widely seen as the worst failure of security and intelligence in Israeli history.

Netanyahu fought to avoid the general investigation of the events that led to Hamas’s attack, and sought to blame the security leaders of the security. Herzi Halevi, head of the army, was forced out earlier this month.

Like senior security officials who were in the Post on October 7, Bar, who took office in 2021, acknowledged his responsibility for the failures that allowed the attack, and indicated his intention to step down before the end of his term.

But he also accused Netanyahu of failures, as he issued a challenging statement this week on the pretext that Netanyahu’s governments have defined Hamas’s policy for years before the attack and ignored the warnings of Shin Pitt.

The tensions between the two men have also exacerbated in recent weeks, as Shane Beit has continued to investigate the pressure on behalf of Qatar, which was claimed by assistants at the Prime Minister’s office.

Netanyahu refused to investigate as political motives. But in a letter to the ministers published by the Israeli media on Thursday evening, Bar warned that his dismissal now may “endanger” the investigation, which he said would be a threat to Israel’s security.

Netanyahu announced his intention to remove the tape SundayThis prompted the Israeli public prosecutor, Galle Baharav Mayra-who is also trying to dismiss-to warn the Prime Minister that he cannot do this “until the real and legal basis on which your decision is based and your ability to deal with this issue is clarified.”

But the government refused to warn Baharrav Mayra, as the government secretary accused her of “overcoming its authority” in a letter published by the Netanyahu office on Thursday.

The dispute comes above the righteous exit amid a broader conflict between the right -wing Netanyahu government and the Israeli judicial and legal authorities, which began when the government began a controversial attempt to limit the judiciary in 2023, and it erupted again in recent weeks.

Netanyahu’s Minister of Justice refused to recognize the authority of the new president of the Supreme Court, which the government was late for more than a year in the hope of establishing a different appointment. The government is also submitting legislation designed to grant it greater control of the appointment of the Supreme Court judges.

Meanwhile, Baharaf Mayara, the country’s largest legal official, who has repeatedly clashed with the government on issues ranging from political appointments to judicial reform.

The SACK Bar plan sparked protests throughout the week, as tens of thousands of people joined the gatherings in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the police collided with the demonstrators near Netanyahu’s house during another protest on Thursday.

Aharon Barak, the former president of the Supreme Court, said he feared that the confrontation between the government and the legal and judicial institutions of Israel would create a catastrophic dispute in Israeli society.

He said in an interview with the Israeli Ynet website: “In the end, I am afraid that it will be like a train that starts from the tracks and drowns in a gap that causes a civil war.” “We have to prevent the tyranny of the majority.”