Itay Ben Horin, who serves as a strategic advisor to some of the protest organizations against the legal reform, told business leaders last night that, "on Wednesday there will be an event during which representatives of reserve soldiers will announce that they will no longer volunteer for the IDF." Kan Reshet Bet revealed that Ben Horin claimed that soldiers refusing to serve represent a "large mass of reservists." Ben Horin said this at a gathering of business executives in Tel Aviv designed to harness them to join the protest against the government's proposed legal reform. The conference featured an extraordinary statement by Uri Levin, former CEO of Discount Bank and current CEO of Tidhar Real Estate Group. Levin said protest leaders could hold talks with the coalition because "we also talked with Arafat." According to him, "I think we need to decide what we do when they cross a red line. But for that matter, if the committee for selecting judges is changed tomorrow and only coalition representatives are there - we need to decide what to do. We are not brave enough to shut down the economy right now. We can decide whether the red line is the cancellation of the reasonableness cause or something else. There could be a call for talks. We also talked with Arafat." Harel Wiesel, Co-Founder and CEO of Fox Wizel Ltd, claimed that Union Chairman Arnon Bar-David told him that Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, threatened him so that he would not join the protest movement. "I am in contact with the chairman of the Histadrut all the time. He keeps telling me that he has an agreement with Smotrich which entails 600,000 employees and keeps receiving threats that if he acts against the reform, the Finance Ministry won't sign it," said Wiesel. Dana Azrieli, owner of the Azrieli Group, said at the meeting: "Not everyone supports the protest." Regarding reservists refusing to serve, she said: "Many people - at least 50 percent of them, don't believe it's the way to go."
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374258
Comments
0 comment