30.03.2011                      24.Adar ll, 5771

Analyse:

New security bosses will face sharper challenges

Analysis: Shin Bet appointment concludes personnel changes at top of Mossad, IDF, Military Intelligence, Police, and Prisons Service.

Prime Minister Binjamin Netanjahu's announcement on Monday that Yoram Cohen would serve as the next head of the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) brings an end to the sweeping personnel changes at the top of Israel’s various defense, security and intelligence agencies.
In the past four months, the heads of the Mossad, IDF, Military Intelligence, Israel Police, Prisons Service and now the Shin Bet have all either been replaced or had the identity of their successors announced….