Prior to Netanyahu's trip, a new Israeli peace initiative calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital, was presented by 50 prominent figures, including former Shin Bet (Israeli internal security service) heads Yaakov Perry and Ami Ayalon, ex-Mossad chief Danny Yatom and former IDF Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak.
Some donors are thought to have asked Mr Kibaki to sack the education minister, George Saitoti, a hangover from the Moi era, and to demote Chris Murungaru, the inept but powerful internal security minister who heads the Mount Kenya group.If Mr Kibaki can keep the donors happy, it will help fill a cavernous hole in the budget, currently running at about 5% of GDP.
One newspaper quotes him as saying that he, as head of Mossad, Yuval Diskin, the head of Sin Bet – the internal security agency, and Gabi Ashkenazi, the head of the army, could prevent Netanyahu and Barak from making mistakes but all three have left their positions and have been replaced by men chosen by the current government.
In July 2015, the government got rid of three security chiefs, including the heads of internal security and counter-intelligence, and the chief of presidential security.
As chief of Israeli internal security at the time, Mr. Ben-Ami was head of Israel's police.
Scappaticci rose through the republican movement to head its internal security unit or "headhunters".
Luo Gan, the party's head of internal security and a protégé of Li Peng, is also a strong candidate.
The loathed and feared head of internal security was Ali Saad al-Majaab, who residents say sought protection from his tribe soon after the uprising began.
In the frontline Iraqi town of Dibis near Kirkuk, the head of internal security Ali Mohammad is responsible for processing those who flee Isis controlled areas.
Lebanon was on the brink after the Syrian regime was widely blamed for a huge bomb in Beirut that killed Brigadier-General Wissam Hassan, the head of internal security, and seven others.
