The Left's Resistance: Former Shin Bet chiefs are leading a campaign against the appointment of David Zini to the position of head of the General Security Service.
Channel 12 reported that Nadav Argaman, Ami Ayalon, Yoram Cohen and Carmi Gillon submitted objections to the Grunis Committee's appointment of Zini to the position.
This, after yesterday 260 former Shin Bet employees sent a letter to the committee, in which they also opposed the appointment.
On the other hand, Brigadier General Ofer Winter, a reserve, also addressed the Grunis Committee - and expressed support for Zini. He wrote to the committee members: This is "a moral, professional officer, a man without a flaw, a Zionist and honest as a ruler.".
The director general of the Religious Zionist Party, Yehuda Wald, wrote in response to the move by the former Shin Bet chiefs on his X account: "They would have done it even if it wasn't David Zini. Even if it was Ofer Winter or Avi Balut or Dado Bar Khalifa, or any other officer who has a knitted kippah on his head, who grew up in a national religious education, who was in Bnei Akiva, who puts on tefillin and kisses a mezuzah, whose father was a rabbi, and whose children are in my father's mechinate or in a Heder yeshiva.".
""Anyone who does not come from the correct and enlightened camp, from their perspective, is a threat and a danger to the country that they think belongs only to them. This dark minority must not be allowed to win.".
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forwarded Zini's name to the advisory committee for senior appointments, the Grunis Committee, which is supposed to provide an opinion regarding the appointment.
The committee's role is to examine the integrity of the most senior positions in the public service, including the Chief of Staff, the Commissioner-General, and the head of the Mossad.
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