This time it did not take long for the law enforcement system to take action.
Only a few months passed from the time the head of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen, finished his job until it was decided that the police would open an investigation into his case.
It is also difficult to say that this is a particularly surprising move.
From the moment Cohen left the office of the head of the Mossad, mysterious reports began to be published on behalf of unknown sources, because Cohen was targeted in four different and strange cases.
At first it was Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, whose associates knew how to tell the court journalist that he was considering how to treat Cohen.
When he finished his examination, the ball was handed over to the State Attorney, Amit Isman, who also dealt with a thorough examination, and after Isman finished, the ball landed this week in the Israeli police field, which will check whether there is room for a criminal investigation against Cohen.
Everything, of course, is done in public through leaks and media briefings.
In this legal case, his potential criminal acts were diluted from four cases to one, in which Cohen received $ 20,000 in cash from businessman James Packer as a gift for his daughter's wedding, and with that gift the police will focus their investigation.
It is important to emphasize - Cohen is not expected, at least at this stage, to be questioned, and he is not a suspect, or at least not suspected of criminal acts, but unfortunately he is suspected of much more serious things, and they are the real reason for the test fever in his case.
The outgoing head of the Mossad committed the most serious crime of all - he dared to follow a crooked path, contrary to what is customary in the circles of the sons of light. Cohen did not end his role in an interview in which he lamented with a wrinkled face about the state of the state and the functioning of the leadership. Worse, Cohen dared to scatter hints that if he decided to enter the political world, it would be in the wrong bloc and on the wrong side of the map. It is clear, then, why the system had no choice. Spreading criminal slime and spreading a criminal aroma around it are the order of the day. A former head of an institution squinting to the right is a problem that is important to kill quickly when it is small.
The State Attorney's Office, the police and the Attorney General's Office have known for a long time about the 20,000 dollars that Cohen received. It was not a state secret, and no one saw a reason to do anything. In the time that has passed, Cohen could have disrupted and torpedoed any chance of an investigation. They also knew in the Ministry of Justice that Cohen had received approval from the institution's legal counsel to receive the gift. Still, in a cosmic coincidence they suddenly decided that it was worth checking out, leaking to the press and labeling a man, who was released after decades of contributing to the state, as a criminal.
Cohen has reason to be concerned, at least as long as he continues to cling to his devious path, but there is also an opening for hope: if he only understands the signal from the justice system, his sins will be whitened, he will be included in the list of interrogators, the wedding gift will be forgotten. All he needs is to straighten in the direction of the furrow and stop deviating from the chorus line.