Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government's request to overturn the decision to freeze the dismissal of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar.

The official Israeli Broadcasting Authority said that the Supreme Court rejected the government's request to overturn the decision to freeze Bar's dismissal.

According to the Supreme Court's ruling, "Ronen Bar will continue to perform his duties without prejudice to his powers, and no action will be taken to terminate his term."

The commission noted on Wednesday that the government had filed a petition with the Supreme Court requesting that the temporary freeze order be overturned, arguing that the court ruling "poses a threat to the principle of separation of powers."

The petition stated that "the ultimate authority to manage state security affairs rests with the government," warning that "Supreme Court decisions that strip it of this authority create a dangerous situation."

The government also considered that "imposing the continued tenure of a failed and untrustworthy security chief solely on the basis of a temporary court order constitutes a serious institutional flaw."

The authority indicated that the court "rejected the government's petition today, Thursday."

"The Supreme Court rejected the government's request to lift the temporary injunction currently preventing the dismissal of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar," she said.

The court judges were quoted as saying in their ruling: "There is no basis for the allegation of a violation of the government's powers in the security sector," noting that the government "is responsible for making political and security decisions."

They added that "the existence of a judicial review of the appointment, regardless of the rank, does not detract from this in the slightest, as was made clear during the session," which examined petitions opposing the dismissal decision.

Relations between the Supreme Court and the Israeli government have been highly tense following the government's attempts to limit the powers of the Israeli judiciary, particularly following the court's decision to freeze Bar's dismissal.

On March 20, the government unanimously approved Netanyahu's proposal to dismiss Bar, the first such decision in Israel's history, despite thousands of protests.

Hours after the government's decision, the Supreme Court froze Barr's dismissal pending appeals from opposition parties, and government officials indicated they planned not to respect the court's ruling.

Later, on April 8, the Israeli Supreme Court decided to prevent the government from implementing the decision to dismiss Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar, which was scheduled to take effect on April 10, or announcing a replacement for him, pending the conclusion of the case.

Netanyahu justified his decision to dismiss Bar as a "failure," but Bar attributed the decisions to disagreements with Netanyahu and the Shin Bet investigation into officials in the Israeli president's office on charges of contact with a foreign government.