The chief of Israel’s Shin Bet security service stepped down. Avi Dichter, who took over the Shin Bet just a few months before the outbreak of the Palestinian intifada in September 2000, formally ended his tenure Wednesday with an appearance at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
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