“I will dedicate the coming weeks to a comprehensive and orderly handover, and to concluding a number of issues on the agenda,” Ushpiz wrote in a letter to Foreign Ministry staff.
Ushpiz will be handing his duties over to Ronen Levy, a veteran of the Shin Bet security service and the National Security Council, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen announced.
Levy, 48, who spend two decades in the Shin Bet dealing with the Gaza Strip, had his name and photograph released officially for the first time in Sunday’s announcement from Cohen’s office.
Levy rose through the ranks of the Shin Bet, working his way up from a field operative to head of the Gaza Strip area, before being taken into the National Security Council by his boss Meir Ben-Shabbat, a senior Shin Bet official in southern Israel who became Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser in 2017. READ MORE
