High Court Hands Down Decision on a Former Shin Bet Operative
The Supreme Court handed down a decision Wednesday in the case
of former Shin Bet operative Rafi Malka who brought charges
against his former chief, Avraham Shalom. But the nature of the
ruling was not disclosed. The court hearings which began last
month have been held in tight secrecy.  Malka was suing for re-
instatement in Israel’s top secret internal security service
from which he had been dismissed by Shalom. He is one of three
former Shin Bet agents who accused Shalom of ordering the murder
of two Palestinian bus hijackers in custoday of security agents
in April 1984 and later engaging in an elaborate cover-up.  It
was those accusatios that brought what has become known as the
Shin Bet affair into the public domain, the end result of which
was a decision by Attorney General Yosef Harish to order a
police investigation of the entire matter. The Cabinet, by
majority vote Monday, refused to establish a judicial commission
for that purpose.  Hari