ISRAELI CABINET SHIFT NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL WANTS QUIET PROBE OF SECURITY CHIEF.(Main)

Byline: William Claiborne

Washington Post

JERUSALEM - Israel's Cabinet, in a move that appeared to be designed to defuse a major political controversy surrounding the chief of the secret security service, named a new attorney general Sunday to replace Yitzhak Zamir.

Zamir, who had pressed for a police investigation of charges that the security head attempted to cover up the 1984 beating deaths of two captured Arab hijackers, had said in February that he wanted to resign but would remain in the job until a successor was named.

After hearing a report by Prime Minister Shimon Peres on the allegations against Avraham Shalom, chief of the Shin Bet, the secret security service, the Cabinet named a Tel Aviv judge, Yosef …