Ben-Gvir's Ministry Runs 'Like a Crime Organization Has Taken Over'

The security minister casts fear over his employees and interferes incessantly with their work to promote his political interests, sources say. He surrounds himself with senior police officers to bolster his public image and is 'obsessed with the media', another source describes

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At the end of the month, Itamar Ben-Gvir will conclude a year in the National Security Ministry – with the entire brass of the ministry gone. The esteemed director-general he brought in as a professional left after incessant intervention by the minister. A replacement Ben-Gvir dropped in, contrary to the position of the Civil Service Commission, was made to leave, having been found to fall short of the most basic criteria for the position.

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