Summary
Attorney General of Israel (1931-) who, in the Shin Bet Affair as Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine presents it, held up the law against Prime Minister Shimon Peres’s shielding of the Shin Bet (PDF p.88-95).
Details
- Suspicious of Shin Bet chief Avraham Shalom’s insertion of Yossi Genossar into the Zorea commission, Zamir appointed the Blatman investigation team on June 4, 1984 despite Shalom’s pressure to terminate all inquiries (PDF p.88-89).
- Convinced by the three Shin Bet dissidents that Shalom had intentionally misled two investigation committees to evade responsibility for the order to kill two captive Palestinians, Zamir prompted Peres to dismiss the four directly involved in the attempted cover-up; Peres refused (PDF p.91).
- Zamir declared: “Things have been done for which someone must be held accountable, so that something like this does not happen again. Such cover-up maneuvers before the judicial branch must never happen again” (PDF p.93).
- He filed a suit with the police against Shalom and other Shin Bet members, told the press on May 30, 1986 that withholding the facts violated “essential aspects of democratic rules”, and was ousted on June 1, 1986 (PDF p.94-95).