‘A tangible, immediate danger’: Ex-police chiefs call to remove Ben Gvir as minister

Six former police chiefs and over three dozen deputy police commissioners have called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remove far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir as national security minister, warning that he poses “a tangible and immediate danger to the security of the State of Israel.”

In a letter to the premier, who heads the right-wing and far-right coalition in which Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party is a key partner, the six ex-police commissioners and 42 deputy commissioners cautioned against the “impending collapse of the Israel Police” and said the minister was a “central part” of the problems plaguing the force, according to the Ynet news site on Friday.

The signatories include former police chiefs Yohanan Danino, who served from 2011 to 2015, Dudi Cohen (2007-2011), Moshe Karadi (2004-2007), Shlomo Aharonishki (2001-2004), Asaf Hefetz (1994-1997), and Rafi Peled (1993-1994). READ MORE