The appointment of Maj. Gen. David Zini to head Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, still faces a fraught legal process.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday appointed a new head of the Shin-Bet domestic intelligence agency, ignoring his own attorney general’s legal guidance and exacerbating a weeks-long battle over the previous chief’s ouster.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday appointed Maj. Gen. David Zini as the next director of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency, defying a warning from Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and drawing immediate backlash.

For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the shooting of two young embassy staffers at a Jewish event in Washington was a horrific example of the antisemitism that has flared across the world since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned a deadly shooting in Washington, D.C., where a young couple, Yaron Lischinsky and Sara Milgrim, were murdered. He emphasized that the attack was not random but motivated by antisemitism.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials are reacting with outrage to the fatal shootings of embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington,