Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under fierce criticism from the opposition for failing to prevent the Oct 7 attack ahead of an Oct 27 election. (EPA Images pic)JERUSALEM: The former head of Israel's Shin Bet domestic security agency on Wednesday sued Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for defamation weeks before elections in a row over responsibility for Hamas's Oct 7, 2023 attack.
Netanyahu, who polls show in a tight race to stay in power in the Oct 27 election, has been hammered by the opposition for failing to prevent the attack, the deadliest day in Israeli history.
Netanyahu, who has cast himself as a guarantor of Israel's security over his decades-long career, has insisted that he could have stopped the attack had the Shin Bet's then director, Ronen Bar, or military leaders called to wake him up the day of the early-morning attack.
