Word: shin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under an arrangement worked out during an all-night meeting, Avraham Shalom, the central figure in the controversy, resigned as director of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security agency. He was immediately granted a pardon by President Chaim Herzog...
...organization's role before two official investigations into the killings. Rising calls for a new probe were opposed by both Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the Likud bloc in Israel's national unity coalition. They insisted that an inquiry into Shin Bet's role in the deaths could expose state secrets...
Both Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, his Likud-bloc partner in the ruling coalition, continue to oppose any investigation that might reveal the ( inner workings of the Shin Bet. "The Shin Bet," said Shamir last week, "can be examined," but "without revealing its secrets." Harish is shortly expected to appoint an investigator or a small commission of inquiry. One crucial question will be how much of the findings will be made public...
Zamir, meanwhile, was accused of trying to push the probe along by leaking details of the case to reporters. Israeli newspapers quoted a "senior judicial source" as saying that the two Palestinians were killed in a "lynching" by five Shin Bet agents on the orders of Director Avraham Shalom. Two Likud members of parliament and a dozen lawyers have filed police complaints against Zamir identifying him as the source. The former Attorney General denied any impropriety. The press reported that the three former Shin Bet officials who sparked the affair by going to Zamir with the cover-up story have...
While the government continues to be under pressure to make a clean breast of the Shin Bet scandal, the public is ambivalent. A poll published last week by the Tel Aviv newspaper Hadashot showed that 47.6% of those questioned opposed an inquiry of any kind, while 28.8% were in favor and 19.4% supported a secret investigation...