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Dec. 18, 2020
Before he was tapped as the next police commissioner, Border Police commander Kobi Shabtai paused all training so that all border policemen could watch an investigative report on Channel 13 TV about policemen accused of looting and acting violently against Palestinians. His move was not an obvious one. Perhaps Public Security Minister Amir Ohana has chosen a person worthy of being commissioner. We’ll find out soon enough. However, we should be hearing by now more about the designated commissioner’s views regarding the police force. What does he think about the militarization it has undergone and about its conversion into a Mossad-like institution? What does he think about the police spying on the online activity of civilians?