> the ministerial committee for legislation is slated to discuss a bill on sunday establishing a new intelligence oversight body directly under the authority of prime minister benjamin netanyahu, despite an ongoing investigation into the alleged systematic theft of classified intelligence documents from idf databases and the transfer of those files to people in the prime ministers office. > the bill seeks to create a so-called ifcha mistabra (devils advocate) unit reporting directly to netanyahu that will be given the authority to demand intelligence information from any intelligence body or any other state institution in israel. this would include military intelligence, the shin bet, mossad and national security council. > according to the bill, the new unit would be tasked with synthesizing and analyzing this information and providing the prime minister, defense minister and intelligence agencies with alternate takes on security challenges. it would also be required to report regularly to the knesset foreign affairs and defense committee   ush-bill-to-create-new-intelligence -oversight-body-under-netanyahu/ a week old but i feel this didn't get the coverage it deserved.
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