Ronen Bar, director of Israel's Shin Bet's internal security department, said he will resign in less than two months after weeks of nervousness with Benjamin Netanyahu, who tried to fire him to bring Israel to the brink of a constitutional crisis.

“After serving for 35 years, I will end my position on June 15, 2025 in order to allow an orderly process for appointing permanent successors, for professional exchanges,” Bar said at a Shin Bet Memorial event on Monday.

The battle between Netanyahu and Barr has intensified after the Supreme Court blocked the cabinet's decision to fire the lawyer from his post - the first person in charge of sacking the shin betting.

Netanyahu said he lost trust in Bar's ability to lead Shin Bet and accused him of conflicts of interest and politicizing institutions.

The decision of the lawyers’ committee to resign will now waive the Supreme Court from potentially split and controversial judgments.

Last week, the 59-year-old bar association claimed in a 31-page affidavit to the Supreme Court that Netanyahu had tried to fire him because he refused to promise loyalty to the prime minister and tried to use the agency to monitor anti-government protesters.

Netanyahu responded to the court on Sunday, rejecting the bar association's allegations. He repeatedly refers to Israel’s “deep state”, claiming to try to stop democratically elected leaders and undermine elected governments.

Netanyahu and Bar, a former Special Forces soldier who holds degrees from Tel Aviv and Harvard University, had a worsening relationship after a filing was published in March in a report on the Shin BET report on the attack on Hamas militants in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. The department admitted to making mistakes but criticized the Netanyahu government's policies saying it allowed Hamas to build power in Gaza and capture Israel in surprise.

Netanyahu has never accepted any responsibility for Israel's worst national security disaster, which killed 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and resulted in 251 people being kidnapped and hostages in Gaza. Eighteen months after the attack, many senior officials at the time resigned or were forced to resign. Netanyahu seems unlikely to leave power before the second half of next year's election and may move forward.

BAR authorized Shin Bet to conduct two investigations into Netanyahu's closure aides, including one allegedly paid from Qatar to promote its interests in Israel, while Qatar was partially raised by Hamas in Gaza, widely known as its motive for its dismissal. Netanyahu has faced numerous corruption charges in court, with political opponents claiming that the prime minister wants to be removed from office to undermine the investigation.

Netanyahu has been denied any inappropriate or ulterior motives in the shooting bar.

"To this day, the reason why I fired was not clear," Bell wrote in the Supreme Court affidavit. "But... it originated not from any professional indicators, but from Netanyahu's expectations, and I personally would be loyal to him."

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid praised Ball's decision and criticized Netanyahu. "Of course there is only one persistent chairman among those responsible for the biggest failures in the country's history," Rapid said.

Shin Bet’s top priority is counter-terrorism, but the service also investigates espionage, manages security permits for thousands of sensitive positions, and has a legal obligation to defend Israel’s democratic system.

The Bar Association took over the service in 2021, which was appointed by then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and is expected to be in office for five years.

The Bar Association was one of the earliest senior security officials to take responsibility for many of the failures that led to the 2023 attacks and made it clear that he intends to resign.

Colleagues and supporters said last month that he had been staying for so long, committed to freeing Hamas' hostages in Gaza and protecting Shin Bet from political action.