Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Government to approve political-security cabinet

The government will convene on Tuesday for a meeting in which it will approve the composition of the ministers who will make up the political-security cabinet, as well as the chairmanship of the Shin Bet Affairs Committee.

In addition to the ministers who are required to be members of it by law - the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of National Security - the political-security cabinet will also include Ministers Aryeh Deri, Avi Dichter, Ron Dermer, Yisrael Katz and Miri Regev.

The ministers will be asked to approve a motion that Minister Yariv Levin chair the Shin Bet Affairs Committee, and not Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel, who entered the government at the last minute. READ MORE