The Shin Bet and the Justice Ministry’s Department of Internal Police Investigations are looking into a new affair related to national security, according to multiple reports in Hebrew media Monday.

A sweeping gag order has been placed on details of the case, which is reportedly related to an event that took place during the war.

According to the reports, the affair is likely to increase tensions between the country’s law enforcement agencies and the political echelon, already at the boiling point with the government’s move to begin a process of firing Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, as well as investigations into the so-called Qatargate affair.

The latter affair involves suspicions that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s close aides Jonatan Urich and Eli Feldstein committed multiple corruption offenses tied to their alleged work for a pro-Qatar lobbying firm while working for the prime minister, including contact with a foreign agent. Police also want to question........

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