A former Mossad head harshly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a posthumousinterview published Monday, accusing him of putting personal interests above national concerns, AFP reports.
Meir Dagan, who died aged 71 on March 17, led the Mossad from 2002 through 2010, notably working to thwart Iran's nuclear program while also opposing a military strike against it.
He held a series of conversations with a journalist from Yediot Aharonot before his death that were withheld until Monday.
"I knew a lot of prime ministers," he said. "None of them were saintly types. But they had one shared trait: When they reached the point in which their personal interest intersected with the national interest, the national interest always prevailed. There are only two I can't say that about - Bibi and Barak."