Shin Bet to Join Arab-Crime Fight Under Ben Gvir Plan
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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir formally announced that Shin Bet will enter the fight against crime in Israel's Arab community. The move, advanced with Social Equality Minister May Golan, is expected to go to the government for approval on Sunday and would fund Shin Bet, police and prison-service enforcement, intelligence and operational capabilities from Program 550 money. Current reporting says David Zini's Shin Bet will set up a separate department and recruit about 500 workers for the mission. The move shifts a domestic-crime campaign toward national-security tools after years of murders, weapons trafficking and protection rackets inside Israeli towns.
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Sources agree on the core facts: Ben Gvir announced that Shin Bet will join the fight against crime in Israel's Arab community, the government is expected to approve the move on Sunday, David Zini's Shin Bet is more willing than Ronen Bar's was to take on the mission, and the plan includes a separate Shin Bet track with roughly 500 new workers. They factually diverge on funding: Channel 13 says the dedicated budget is half a billion shekels, Ynet's flash says half a million shekels, and Times of Israel's earlier background report says the expected funding was NIS 1-1.3 billion.
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