Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published this evening (Sunday) the full opinion of the chairman of the Advisory Committee for Appointments to Senior Positions, retired Supreme Court President Prof. Asher Grunis, who opposes the appointment of Major General Roman Gofman as head of the Mossad.
The opinion states that although the other committee members found no fault with the appointment, in Grunis' opinion there was a flaw in the candidate's moral integrity.
Mossad head Dedi Barnea testified before the Grunis Committee and addressed in detail the conduct of Major General Roman Gofman and his ability to serve in senior positions in the defense establishment.
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""When a commander decides to violate the army's procedures, and decides to take matters into his own hands and do something he is not supposed to do, it has many implications," Barnea stated to the committee members.
The head of the Mossad made it clear that, in his opinion, an officer's command history must be clean of corruption in order for him to be able to advance to the most senior ranks: "Any command remark disqualifies a promotion, certainly a promotion to the head of the Mossad.".
