Public outrage surrounds the choice of his successor, Prisons Service Commissioner Yaakov Ganot, reports the Israeli daily Haaretz. In the 1990s, Ganot was suspended from the police force for three years for “taking bribes, fraud, breach of trust and abuse of police power”, writes Haaretz.

Security Minister Avi Ditcher made it clear at a press conference that “the police just hasn’t been delivering the good for too long… The public just don’t have a feeling of safety at home and on the streets”, explains the Jerusalem Post.

The appointment of Ganot comes at a sensitive time for Israel. when, according American Jewish newspaper The Forward, “the president, prime minister, defence minister, justice minister, finance minister, military chief of staff and Tax Authority director are, or were, under investigation”.