The affidavit submitted by Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar to the High Court of Justice on Monday is a thunderous alarm call for the Israeli public.

The head of one of the country's central security agencies officially and explicitly informed the court that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded personal loyalty from him - to obey the prime minister, that is, rather than the law or the courts - and that Netanyahu systematically sought to harness the Shin Bet's far-reaching capabilities for his personal and political benefit.

Following Bar's submission, Netanyahu's office was quick to issue a statement declaring: "Ronen Bar submitted a false affidavit to the Supreme Court, which will be disproved in detail soon." However, the statement did not commit to presenting that refutation within Netanyahu's own affidavit.

Leaving aside Bar's classified 31-page document, his public affidavit alone is enough to leave readers stunned.
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Many of the allegations he makes against Netanyahu have been raised in public discourse over recent years, but this is an entirely different situation. The accusations are now being made explicitly and openly by the Shin Bet chief himself, and are presented in a signed affidavit to the court - carrying the weight of sworn testimony.

Every key accusation included by Bar is a bombshell that ought to shake the foundations of Israeli public life:

• Netanyahu made clear to Bar that, in the event of a constitutional crisis, he expects the Shin Bet chief to obey the prime minister, not the High Court. If Netanyahu indeed made such a demand, the very act of making it constitutes a serious criminal offense that warrants investigation.
• Netanyahu repeatedly pressured Bar to issue a security decree that would effectively prevent the prime minister from testifying in his ongoing criminal trial. A draft of such an opinion, prepared by someone within Netanyahu's circle, was passed to Bar for signature - but he refused.
• Netanyahu asked Bar to deploy the Shin Bet's surveillance tools against Israeli citizens - specifically, the leaders of the 2023 protest movement against the government's judicial overhaul - citing alleged "subversion." In so doing, he disregarded the Shin Bet's own criteria for deploying its powers in such cases, including the balance between preventing subversion and upholding the rights to protest and free expression, as well as the principle of keeping the Shin Bet out of the political arena.
• Netanyahu delivered these requests orally, at the end of work meetings, after sending out his military secretary and the stenographer operating the recording device - in an apparent effort to avoid documentation.
• Bar sent a letter to Netanyahu and Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs, in which he detailed the national security importance of establishing a state commission of inquiry into the events surrounding Hamas's October 7 invasion and massacre - not only because it would be the right thing to do from a governance standpoint, but because the security establishment requires such a process to draw conclusions and implement structural reforms in doctrine and operations. Netanyahu continues insistently to resist such a probe.

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