Public Security Minister Amir Ohana holds a press conference in Jerusalem, on July 15, 2020. (FLASH90)
The appointments must now be approved by the cabinet to take effect.
Ohana, whose ministry oversees the police and prisons service, hailed the committee’s approval of the nominees.
“I’ll immediately bring a proposal for government approval and I expect all members to approve them without delay,” he wrote on Twitter.
Ohana also said Shabtai was facing “burning, difficult and urgent problems to deal with” as the designated police chief, without giving further details. The approval of Shabtai’s nomination came amid frequent clashes between police and protesters on a number of issues, including the death of a young settler in a car crash last week while fleeing police after allegedly throwing stones at Palestinians.
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The weekly cabinet meeting, which had been pushed off this week to tomorrow, faces an additional delay until Thursday amid disagreements between the Likud and Blue and White parties over the agenda, Hebrew-language media reports.
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The United States places a pro-Iranian group based in Bahrain on its global terror blacklist, accusing it of plotting attacks on US troops in the tiny Gulf kingdom.
The group, Saraya al-Mukhtar, poses a “significant risk of committing acts of terrorism that threaten the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says in a statement.
“Saraya al-Mukhtar is an Iran-backed terrorist organization based in Bahrain, reportedly receiving financial and logistic support from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” Pompeo says.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been on the US “Designated Global Terrorist” list since 2019.
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The daughter of a 74-year-old Austrian citizen imprisoned in Iran has told of her fears for her father’s health after he started displaying coronavirus symptoms.
“He started suffering from fever last Thursday, but he doesn’t get the medical attention he needs, and he was denied a COVID test,” Fanak Mani, daughter of Massud Mossaheb, tells AFP of her father’s treatment in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.
Mossaheb was detained while traveling in Iran with a delegation from an Austrian research center in January 2019 and in August it was announced that he had been jailed for 10 years on charges of spying for Israel and Germany.
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Outgoing Acting Israel Police Commissioner Motti Cohen announces that he will quit the organization following the nomination of Yaakov Shabtai as permanent police chief, and accuses decision-makers of “ulterior motives” in the failure to appoint his replacement until now.
Cohen, who has served in his interim position for two years during an extended political crisis, makes the announcement in a letter sent to fellow officers and commanders.
He also writes that he has lately faced “attempts to intervene in the work of the Israel Police, intervention that has no place in the organization and which I didn’t allow.”