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The Netanyahu family wants to extend close security: "There are new and up-to-date threats"
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The close security of the former prime minister's wife and children is expected to end next month after 12 years, according to the GSS recommendation and the government decision.
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Monday, 15 November 2021, 14:26 Updated: 14:48
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The family of opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu wants to extend the close security services of the family members, which according to the GSS recommendation and the government's decision are due to end next month. the last 12 years by guards suite and a car at the expense of the state.
with the establishment of the new government decided to remove the security over the Netanyahu family after six months from the end of his term - the second week in December. Walla! has learned that in recent days representatives of the family turned to the head of security The Prime Minister's Office, Alon Haliva, has requested that the Ministerial Committee for GSS, which approves the security arrangements of the Prime Minister, the ministers and his family, convene to reconsider the decision. But did not rule out the possibility that he would later apply to convene the Ministerial Committee.
The tight security is expected to end next month.
The Netanyahu family (Photo: Government Press Office, Photo: Roi Avraham)
Last week, Netanyahu uploaded a video on social media documenting some of the threats and incitement calls he and his family received in the past year, in demonstrations against him in court and outside the prime minister's residence in Balfour.
Among other things, the video shows Haim Shadmi, one of the leaders of the Balfour protest, documented last year threatening Yair Netanyahu: "Yair will remember our promise ... one day you will be without security guards."
At the time, Netanyahu filed a complaint with the police against Shadmi, who has even been charged with making threats.
Yair Netanyahu also recently re-posted on social media posts about what former journalist Buki Na'a wrote against him last year, in which he called "give him a stab in the butt. Ten GSS security guards will not help him either." Netanyahu Jr. wrote that He was strangely closed against him, without Buki Na'a being summoned for questioning even once or being warned in any way. "
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After 12 years: The close security of the Netanyahu family will be removed in about a month
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The Netanyahu family's security arrangements attracted a great deal of public attention during his years as prime minister, including the fact that Yair and Avner Netanyahu were the first children of the prime minister to enjoy close security, which continued even when they were adults leaving the prime minister's residence on Balfour Street. Their security is carried out by the Magen unit - the unit for securing personalities in the Prime Minister's Office, which also secured Sarah Netanyahu and is also responsible for the security of ministers in the government. A storm broke out in 2018 after former GSS chief Yoram Cohen said in an interview that he did not think Netanyahu's children needed permanent security, but over the years the family claimed that due to the threats they needed the security envelope, and the security department in the prime minister's office recommended accordingly.
Netanyahu himself is entitled by virtue of being a former prime minister to close security and an armored vehicle with a driver for 20 years from the end of his term.
In January of this year, the Ministerial Committee on GSS Affairs, then headed by former Minister Eli Cohen, actually extended the security period for members of the prime minister's family - to one year from the end of his term, even though the GSS position was only six months.
With the entry of the new government, the Ministerial Committee convened again, and decided to shorten the security period to six months, in accordance with the GSS recommendation.
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