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The government is expected to approve at its upcoming meeting on Sunday the closing of the Ministry of Intelligence Affairs, as part of a round of cases in the government, in which the Minister of Intelligence Gamaliel revealed a picture to the Minister of Science and Innovation instead of Minister Ofir Akunis, who was appointed to be Consul General in New York.
The proposal to close the Ministry of Intelligence and to appoint Gamaliel to the Minister of Innovation and Science was circulated a short time ago for the references of the ministers.
The Ministry of Intelligence was first established in 2009 for former minister Dan Meridor, but the ministry never received real powers over the intelligence bodies in Israel that are subordinate to the IDF and the Prime Minister. Over the years, the ministry was merged into the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and split again, and became mainly a political work arrangement, in which they served Among others, ministers Yuval Steinitz, Israel Katz, Eli Cohen and Eleazar Stern.
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Gamaliel was appointed Minister of Intelligence upon the formation of the 37th government, and served in the ministry for more than a year - until Netanyahu decided to transfer her to the Ministry of Science and Innovation instead of Akunis, who was sent on a diplomatic mission;
His appointment as consul general in New York will also be approved by the government this coming Sunday.
According to the decision-makers' proposal that was forwarded to the ministers for consideration, the Ministry of Intelligence will be abolished altogether - except for one wing that will be transferred to the Prime Minister's Office.
The Ministry of Intelligence is the third invented ministry that the government has closed in recent months, following the Ministry of Information - from which Minister Galit Distal resigned at the beginning of the war, and the Ministry for the Status of Women of Mai Golan - which was integrated into the Ministry for Social Equality, where Minister Amichai Shikli previously sat, who gave up the ministry and was left with only a portfolio the diaspora
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