Miri Regev of Business: On the Surprising Appointment of Avi Gabay

Just at a time when everyone was upset by the leaks of Miri Regev and Yuval Steinitz from the Likud faction meeting, the announcement was made about the appointment of Avi Gabay - once Bezeq, once all of us, once Labor, once Cellcom - as Partner CEO, after he was a partner in its acquisition. Not in politics and not in business

Liat Ron

24/05/2022

Tuesday, 24 May 2022, 13:29 Updated: 13:45

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Miri Regev proved yesterday that politics is not just "the art of the possible", but that in politics anything is possible and appallingly cynical, when a recording says at a Likud faction meeting, "There is no such thing as abdominal pain on soldiers, women, battered women or rape cases." Conscience and compassion, the main thing is to overthrow the government.

Regev does this, as usual, with great noise, without reckoning, and while causing severe embarrassment to her party.

Right at the same time, but in a quiet and elegant way, a friend of former Mishkan, Avi Gabay, was appointed yesterday as Partner's CEO, Regev's cynical and cold model for the world of economics. There are no ideals, no worldviews, At its best.

It was not for nothing that it was Gabay who published his biographical book "Everything is Possible" in 2019, when he headed the Labor Party, in which he outlined his social-democratic doctrine.

It turned out that "anything is possible" according to Gabay, is not just a title for the way he made his way from the transition in Jerusalem to the Israeli government (well done, no cynicism), but to everything related to adopting new ideologies, zigzagging from business to politics and back to business. His main competitor without blinking (business chalantorism, if to compare for a moment between the two worlds).

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A flash to all of us, from her to the Labor Party, from there to Cellcom and from there to Partner.

Avi Gabay during his time as CEO of Cellcom (Photo: Amir Ghanaim)

Upon entering politics, many were surprised that Gabay, who served six years as CEO of Bezeq, the largest media monopoly in the State of Israel, and left with a fantastic sum of NIS 50 million, joined the "All of Us" party led by the tycoons, Moshe Kahlon, and became a fighter in monopolies - Only a few years earlier had one of them served faithfully.Cynicism

died of shame when the socialist Robin Hood, after discriminating at the ballot box, cut back on business, was appointed CEO of Cellcom, and she overturned in the grave when she learned he had moved from there to the difficult rival Partner.

The conscientious objector who revealed in an interview in "Fact" the shame of decision-makers, smeared them with tar and feathers and stepped on them to shine in his integrity and cleanliness, criticized the tycoons who recruit officials and managers from the public sector for their own interests.

Perhaps he forgot for a moment that he himself was an official in the Ministry of Finance, before being appointed CEO of Bezeq, and later he was head of a party and minister and was appointed CEO of Cellcom.

As time went on, his boundaries eroded to the point.

After two years in office, he surprisingly announced his resignation from Cellcom, and Hope, within a second, learned that he was a member of a group of investors that acquired Partner, Cellcom's direct competitor for $ 300 million, and became one of its owners.

Miri Regev.

Its contempt is already better than its seemingly-elegant sophistication (Photo: Screenshot, GPO)

The outgoing Cellcom CEO is the incoming owner of Partner

It will be said immediately: the CEO is allowed to move to competitors. It is less common for a CEO to engage, ostensibly, in acquiring a competing company during his tenure.

Presumably, the politician Gabay, who prided

himself on being a benchmark for public honesty, must have had something to say to Gabay, the overturning CEO, after all, he was an ideologue.

The agreement, and may have contributed to the fact that Cellcom's board decided to shorten the cooling-off year set for it by half and bring about his appointment as the competing CEO. In any case, this move is perceived in the business world as a kind of extreme act

. Between Regev's conduct and Gabay's, there is an unequivocal conclusion: Miri Regev's humiliation is preferable to Gabay's seemingly elegant sophistication

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