{"id":2000108448,"date":"2026-04-13T10:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000108448"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:27:39","slug":"israel-appoints-new-mossad-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/israel-appoints-new-mossad-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel appoints new Mossad chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The office said Netanyahu signed the appointment letter following approval by an advisory committee.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gofman is set to assume the role on June 2 for a five-year term, after current director David Barnea completes his tenure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The appointment has drawn criticism, including from current and former Mossad officials who raised concerns over Gofman&#8217;s lack of intelligence experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The advisory committee, which reviews senior government appointments in Israel, voted 3-1 in favor of the appointment, with its chairman, former Supreme Court president Asher Grunis, voting against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In light of the integrity-related shortcomings for which Maj. 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Gofman is responsible, it is not appropriate to appoint him to the position of head of the Mossad,&#8221; Grunis wrote in an appendix to the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/oop.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2000108450\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed his military secretary, Roman Gofman, as the next head of the Mossad intelligence agency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed his military secretary, Roman Gofman, as the next head of the Mossad intelligence agency, the prime minister&#8217;s office said Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000108449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000108448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000108449,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lpo.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1000,"height":563,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lpo.jpg","width":150,"height":84},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lpo.jpg","width":300,"height":169},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lpo.jpg","width":768,"height":432},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lpo.jpg","width":1000,"height":563},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lpo.jpg","width":1000,"height":563}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000108448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000108448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000108448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000108452,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000108448\/revisions\/2000108452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000108449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000108448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000108448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000108448"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000108448"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000108448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}