The following is the text of Shin Bet head Ronen Bar’s resignation letter submitted to the prime minister on April 29, 2025. This Times of Israel translation retains the original document’s format and wording.

I am informing you of my decision to terminate my role as head of the General Security Service on June 15, 2025.

I do this with a bowed head to the murdered, the dead, the wounded, the hostages and their families, to whom we did not provide security on that day.

Along with the deep pain and the failure of the service in not giving warning of an attack of this magnitude, the men and women of the Shin Bet fought alongside the IDF in all........

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