Overview

• Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara told ministers there was no legal impediment to the appointment and instructed Zini to seek the Shin Bet legal adviser’s guidance on any prime ministerial requests touching personal, political, or criminal matters.
• Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon provided the senior appointments committee with sensitive information about Zini before it approved the nomination.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly backed Zini, praising his critical thinking and outside perspective and calling him the right person to lead the service.
• Zini is scheduled to assume the post on October 5 as debate continues over the shake-up of Shin Bet leadership, with critics warning of politicization and opposition figures split between vows to remove him and calls to respect the appointment.
• Former Shin Bet official Yossi Amrosi urged immediate steps to rebuild public and internal trust, set a long-term work plan, revisit incomplete inquiries, and prioritize threats including Gaza missile infrastructure, potential rocket and tunnel development in the West Bank, and Iranian espionage.