Israeli cabinet sacks head of Shin Bet intelligence agency

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Israel’s cabinet has voted to sack the head of the Shin Bet internal security agency, in a move likely to intensify the stand-off between Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and the country’s legal authorities.

Defying thousands of protesters outside the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem, in the early hours of Friday the cabinet voted unanimously to dismiss Ronen…