Minister Galant called on blue and white chairman to unveil Mizrachi report on Ashkenazi affair • “Did you understand that the document was behind the fake?” • Tonight, PM will make a statement on Ashkenazi recordings

• Galant v. Ashkenazi: "Followed IDF Champions" // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon and Gideon Markovich

Immigration and absorption minister Yoav Galant continued on Tuesday against former chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi. In a tweet posted on Twitter, the minister claimed: "Gantz - during your time as chief of staff, a shaky commander's report on the Ashkenazi affair was written. The report was hidden. Among the findings: Ashkenazi followed IDF champions; Enlisted the head of the MLB to gather information on the Minister of Defense

Galant added: "Did you realize then that Ashkenazi was behind the fake document? My son, we both know who the man is - expose Ashkenazi's dark behavior, find out what's in the report."

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Netanyahu will deliver a statement on Gabi Ashkenazi recordings at the Likud conference at Migdal Haemek tonight.

The Likud even issued a statement today attacking Gantz's promise to appoint Ashkenazi to the defense minister: "Gantz's promise to appoint Ashkenazi to the UAE is empty. Anyone who has heard the Ashkenazi-Mandelblit recordings knows that he will not be able to serve as defense minister for even a minute. Immediately unveiling the recordings, ”the statement read.

"Ashkenazi must retire"

This is not the first time that the Minister of Immigration and Absorption has been disseminating clues and criticizing Blue and White senior Gabi Ashkenazi regarding the Harpaz document. Just five days ago, in an interview here, B called on Ashkenazi to retire, saying: "I know and remember well what was a decade ago in the Harpaz affair. To whom did we entrust the fate of our sons? It's severe and the recordings need to be revealed. "

He added: "Ashkenazi is unworthy and should be withdrawn from Israeli public. This is a man who distributed a fake document, followed the defense minister and officers and sold political information to unauthorized entities."

On that day, he also posted a tweet in his Twitter account, stating: "I know well a decade ago what was mistakenly known as the Harpaz affair but should be called the Ashkenazi affair. After the publication of the prohibition order, there will be an earthquake in the State of Israel in connection with the Ashkenazi conduct. Mothers will ask themselves whether this is the chief of staff in which we have entrusted the fate of our sons. Stop whitewashing and exposing the truth. "

"Galant Document" - which became the "Harpaz document"

Recall that the Harpaz document, first known as the "Galant Document," was unveiled in Channel 2's "Studio Six" program in 2010, with guidelines for building a positive image for one of the chief of staff's current chief of staff, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yoav Galant The document, which rolls over a single sheet of paper (on both sides) and whose public disclosure provoked a public outcry, turned out to be a fake, thus only exacerbating the storm due to the serious act of forgery and the lack of clarity about the chain of events surrounding it.

Initially, the document became known as the "Galant document," but after it was published that the document was forged by Boaz Harpaz, the media's reference to it as the "Harpaz document" grew. The document, written at a time when there was a great deal of tension between Defense Minister Ehud Barak and his bureau chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi and his bureau, led to a conflict between the defense minister and the chief of staff, who suspected each other that the document was written at the instruction of the other, Harpaz's motives remained unclear.

In January 2016, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein decided to close the case in the case against Gabi Ashkenazi, Erez Wiener and Avi Benayahu. Harpaz was indicted for falsifying the document, convicted of falsifying and using a forged document, and was sentenced to 220 hours of service work.