"A great guy, a great talent," defines former MK Doron Avital, a General Staff patrolman, Ronen Bar, the designated GSS chief who is expected to take office in the coming days. "He served with me as a fighter in a number of operations.
You could say he is quiet, calm at work and very organized.
I'm not surprised he got where he went, he always had perseverance. "
Among the graduates of the General Staff Reconnaissance Regiment, the announcement of Bar's appointment was happily received. Both Ronen Bar and R., who competed for the position, are both graduates of the Regiment, and according to their acquaintances, the two candidates were worthy of the position. Barnea, head of the new institution.
The new head of the GSS enlisted in the General Staff patrol in 1983 and served there for four years.
In 1993, he began his service as a fighter in the GSS Operations Unit and even performed an operational mission on behalf of the Mossad. As an instructor at the National Security College, he returned to service as head of the Operations Division, most recently serving as deputy head of the Shin Bet and in charge of operational activities.
"He is a very focused person, with quiet charisma. He is simply a leader," says Giora Levy, who served as a team commander in the General Staff Reconnaissance Squadron. Because Bar was also in some of these operations. "He is an amazing guy with amazing energy, always one who pushes forward, unusually creative and very brave.
"If Ronen knows that there is someone to trust and that things will be done in the best and most accurate way, he is a cannon, there is no other definition."
Ronen Bar with former Deputy Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, Photo: Yossi Zeliger
As commander of a battalion of fighters in the Duvdevan unit, Levy worked in cooperation with Bar, when it was at the beginning of his career in the operational unit, under the outgoing GSS chief Nadav Argaman. Did not materialize. "The idea was that I would lead a combined force of the flotilla and the unit to rescue Gilad Shalit, and Ronen led the whole issue from the GSS operational unit - to bring the indication that he was there. The operation did not materialize, "he says.
"I was not surprised when I heard that he would be appointed to the position," Levy concludes.
"The people of Israel won people like Ronen and R., and one had to be elected. Each of them was a worthy and excellent choice for the State of Israel. Together with David Barnea as head of the Mossad, he also leaves the patrol, the people of Israel have someone to trust."
