Israel to remove security detail for Netanyahu family

JERUSALEM — An Israeli parliamentary committee voted Sunday to halt providing idiosyncratic information for erstwhile premier curate Benjamin Netanyahu’s woman and big sons, six months aft the longtime person was ousted from power.

The decision, which goes into effect Monday, came contempt pleas from Netanyahu that his household is regularly subjected to threats connected their lives.

Netanyahu was unseated from the premier minister’s bureau successful June aft a constellation of governmental parties agreed successful their absorption to him succeeded successful forming a authorities without his long-ruling Likud party. The one-time leader, who served arsenic premier curate for 12 consecutive years, is present the absorption person and continues to person a state-issued information detail.

Under modular procedures, information and a chauffeured conveyance are granted to the household of a erstwhile premier curate for the archetypal six months aft helium leaves office. But successful January, astatine Netanyahu’s insistence, that bounds was extended by a ministerial committee to 1 year.

On Sunday, the aforesaid ministerial committee adopted a proposal from the Shin Bet information work to trim the play backmost to six months.

It said determination were nary imminent threats to Netanyahu’s woman oregon children. Netanyahu’s sons Yair and Avner, and woman Sara, volition suffer their information item connected Monday.

“When the Shin Bet, Israel Police, and the Mossad accidental that determination is nary menace to the Netanyahu family, the determination is easy,” Public Security Minister Omer Barlev tweeted pursuing the vote. “I americium counting connected the Shin Bet and constabulary that if determination is specified a threat, it volition beryllium uncovered and dealt with.”

Netanyahu criticized the anticipated determination arsenic governmental successful a Facebook video released Friday, saying determination were regular threats made against the lives of his household and that “the penning is connected the wall.” He called connected members of the committee, which included information officials, not to “abandon the information of my woman and children.”