Yet another Shin Bet affair was revealed on Tuesday morning when an Israeli court lifted the gag order on the case, which began when the Shin Bet leadership and Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara threw a senior Shin Bet agent into jail without access to a lawyer for exposing information that embarrassed them. Several weeks ago, Israeli media outlets reported that Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar had launched a probe into the infiltration of Kahanism into the Israel Police against National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and senior police officials. According to leaked documents, Bar launched the probe even after he was told by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Attorney General Gali Barahav-Miara that there was no legal basis for the investigation. Bar denied launching the probe when confronted by Ben-Gvir, but was then publicly humiliated when Ben-Gvir presented him with an internal Shin Bet document proving that Bar had launched the investigation. A Shin Bet official is now being investigated for “harming state security” for leaking classified information about the probe to Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli and Channel 12 News reporter Amit Segal. He also revealed information about the internal Shin Bet report regarding its failures on October 7 that was hidden from the public to Yisrael Hayom reporter Shirat Avitan. The suspect, who has served in the Shin Bet for decades and returned to service following the October 7 massacre, was thrown into prison without access to a lawyer for eight days. Segal responded to the exposure of the affair by slamming Bar and Baharav-Miara, explaining: “The story is ultimately very simple. Ronen Bar told the Attorney General a chilling story about the Kahanist takeover of the police as it was expressed on Tisha B’Av on Har Habayit. The Attorney General rushed to investigate, and then, much to her embarrassment, it became clear from Bar’s subordinates that it never happened.” “Bar, in an attempt to restore his standing with her and his people, opened a secret and unprecedented investigation of the police, on suspicion of ‘the spread of Kahanism on the police’ and ordered ‘to bring some findings.’ This investigation also ended with nothing. This did not bother the Attorney General, and she included the false classified information as part of her justifications [for freezing Bar’s dismissal] to the Supreme Court without disclosing that, in professional slang, it was nonsense.” “I exposed this story and it embarrassed them very much. So far, a total failure. But Bar and Baharav-Miara have tools to hunt down whoever exposed their nakedness and so they threw him into custody without a lawyer. Why? For obstructing a probe? How can you obstruct an investigation that ended in nothing? Will it expose Shin Bet sources? When there are no sources, it is difficult to locate them.” “In a climate where people care, even reluctantly, about appearances and freedom of the press, you don’t conduct a hunt for sources for personal reasons. A serious organization would be busy with a deep internal investigation into what caused it to dive headfirst into a sham investigation, not double down on it.” The suspect’s lawyers stated: “Our client, who served in the Shin Bet for decades with great dedication and professionalism, passed on information of enormous public importance in order to bring it to the public’s attention, while taking care not to […]