The head of the Eshkol Regional Council, Gadi Yarkoni, was outraged on Tuesday by the decision to split the council in two regarding budgets, compensation and rights. According to the government's decision, communities located 0-4 kilometers from Gaza will receive compensation of one amount, while communities located 4-7 kilometers will receive lower compensation. "They don't understand what we said on the seventh of October. The Eshkol Regional Council will not be able to return without this decision. The entire cabinet understood this, only the prime minister didn't accept it," Yarkoni raged, "I'm going to sleep in Jerusalem until they change it. I suggest to the State of Israel to see what this government has done to Eshkol."
Yarkoni added: "It's not enough that Hamas did to us what it did to us and we were alone. Today, the Israeli government has proven that they don't understand. For small money, 210 people are killed in a council where 100 people have died, <> people have been kidnapped and there are more missing. All the way they smeared us, if they think that because I'm not not a Likudnik, they won't listen to me and I don't have votes in the primaries, they're wrong. It's over that they don't listen to the Eshkol Regional Council."
Cabinet meeting this morning, photo: Haim Tzach/GPO
As noted, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting today (Tuesday) with mayors from the southern command base, together with members of the cabinet for managing the war: Defense Minister Galant, Minister Gantz, Minister Eisenkot, Minister of Strategic Affairs Dermer and MK Deri.
Prime Minister Netanyahu to the mayors at the start of the meeting: "We are determined to rehabilitate the communities and kibbutzim, in the so-called 'Gaza envelope,' to return the residents to their homes and to bring prosperity and prosperity far beyond what existed even before the war. For this purpose, we must first achieve victory over Hamas, but also take the necessary civilian actions, and for this we convened today the War Management Cabinet together with the ministerial team."
Ruins of Kibbutz Be'eri (archive), photo: Moshe Shai
"We rely on our heroic soldiers and excellent commanders to achieve the military objective. At the same time, we also rely on your leadership, the heads of the communities, to work together with the government ministries, in order to achieve the same rehabilitation, the same prosperity and the same prosperity."
The mayors who attended the meeting: Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi, Sdot Negev Council Rabbi Tamir Idan, Ashkelon Beach Council Rabbi Itamar Revivo, Eshkol Council Rabbi Gadi Yarkoni, Deputy Mayor Shaar Hanegev Yossi Keren and Shai Hajaj Merhavim Council.
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