Roni Alsheikh

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Roni Alsheikh
Paratroopers
Israel Shin Bet
Years of service1981–1988
RankPolice: Rav Nitzav (Commissioner) Army parallel -
Lieutenant General)
Battles/wars1982 Lebanon War

Roni Alsheikh (or Roni Alsheich, Hebrew: רוני אלשיך, born 20 March 1963) is an Israeli former intelligence officer and head of the Israel Police. After serving as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, Alsheikh joined Shin Bet and rose to become its deputy head before being appointed General Commissioner of the Israel Police, serving in the role from 2015 to 2018.

Biography

Alsheikh was born in 1963 in

Paratroopers Brigade. Alsheikh went on the serve as a commander of the brigade's Engineer Company[2] and as deputy-commander of the 50th battalion of the Nahal Brigade. Alsheikh fought in the 1982 Lebanon War, and participated in Operation Law and Order in 1988. He left the Israel Defense Forces in 1988 with the rank of Rav Seren (Major)
.

Alsheikh studied

Mercaz HaRav Kook, a prominent yeshiva
in Jerusalem.

Alsheikh joined the

Minister of Public Security, Gilad Erdan announced Alsheikh's nomination to be the 18th General Commissioner of the Israel Police.[3][4][5] He served in the role for three years. During his time as Police Commissioner, he oversaw criminal investigations into then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over corruption allegations. The investigations eventually resulted in the indictment and Trial of Benjamin Netanyahu. Alsheikh's term as Police Commissioner ended after three years. It was not extended to a fourth year as is usually customary. The refusal to extend his term was widely seen as an act of retaliation by Netanyahu over the corruption probes.[6]

NSO violations of civil rights

Alsheikh is implicated in starting an illegal surveillance program in the Israeli police and using undemocratic and illegal surveillance software to break into civilians phones and extracting information without the authorization of judges and without proper legislation.[7] However, the subsequent Marari report found that in all the technological systems used for tapping communications between computers in the hands of the police that were examined, there was no indication that police operated to tap mobile phones without a judicial warrant. Also, no indication was found that it used NSO's Pegasus without a judicial warrant to penetrate the phones of the names published in Calcalist.[8]

Personal life

Alsheikh is married. He is the father of seven children, and is a grandfather. He currently resides in

Givat Shmuel, having previously lived in the Israeli settlements of Kokhav HaShahar and Kiryat Arba
.

References

  1. ^ "רוני אלשיך קיבל דרגת רב ניצב ומונה למפכ"ל המשטרה ה-18 - כיכר השבת". כיכר השבת. 3 December 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-02-03. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
  2. ^ Deleted the Village, Deleted Ron Arad Archived 2015-09-29 at the Wayback Machine Amir Rapaport, 19 July 2008, NRG (in Hebrew)
  3. ^ Security service bigwig to head Israel Police Archived 2015-09-26 at the Wayback Machine 25 September 2015, JTA
  4. ^ Shin Bet Deputy Chief Nominated as Next Israel Police Chief Archived 2015-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Yaniv Kubovich and Amos Harel, 25 September 2015, Haaretz
  5. ^ Deputy Shin Bet chief tapped as new police commissioner Archived 2015-09-26 at the Wayback Machine Marissa Newman, 25 September 2015, Times of Israel
  6. ^ Police chief Alsheich to be replaced after sparring with PM over probes
  7. ^ "Police targeted activist with NSO software, saved info on his sex life — report". Times of Israel.
  8. ^ Ganon, Tomer (August 2, 2022). "Marari report: "Police exceeded its authority. Failings in the use of tapping systems"". Calcalist. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
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