Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request by the Israeli government to rescind a temporary freeze on the ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) hurled rare criticism against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for tapping a critic of President Trump to helm one of the Jewish state’s top three spy agencies.

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For now, Israel’s institutions are holding the line. But how long they can continue to do so under such relentless pressure ...

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s political allies at home and a White House-allied American legislator, Senator Graham, seem to have killed a nomination to head Israel’s internal security agency. The ...

On March 31, he announced that Eli Sharvit, a vice admiral in Israel’s navy, would be the next Shin Bet chief. The ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on April 1 he had reversed a decision to appoint former navy commander Vice-Admiral Eli Sharvit as security agency chief following ...

It remains unclear when and how Eli Sharvit could officially take charge as the court's ruling on the removal of the current ...

(res.) Eli Sharvit as the new director of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), less than 24 hours after announcing the nomination. Netanyahu thanked Sharvit for his readiness to take on the role ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn his nomination of former navy chief Eli Sharvit to lead the domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet only a day after making it, a statement from ...