Opposition Chairman Lapid announced an initiative to examine the political echelon's conduct in the affair, but Knesset Speaker declared: "I will not approve raising the issue for the Knesset plenum"

The Knesset will not discuss Opposition Speaker MK Yair Lapid to establish an inquiry committee on the subject of submarines - Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin announced today.

Following the request of Opposition Speaker and Chairman of the Meretz faction to set up a parliamentary commission of inquiry into "Corruption in Transactions in Security Procurement", Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin announced Sunday that he would not approve raising the issue for the Knesset plenum. This is in accordance with the Knesset's bylaws, since it has not been a month since the issue was discussed last time in the plenum.

Remember, shortly after the proposal was rejected to set up an inquiry committee to examine the judges' conflicts of interest in the Knesset plenum, Opposition MK MK Yair Lapid said he intended to promote an initiative to examine the conduct of the political echelon in general, and the conduct of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular, in what became known Nicknamed the "submarine affair".

Motion for Judicial Conflict of Inquiry Committee Rejects Proposal // Photo: Knesset Channel

MK Yair Lapid wrote in his account on the Twitter network: "There is a future that will result in the establishment of a subcommittee on submarines."

Next week there is a future that will result in the establishment of a submarine inquiry committee.

- Yair Lapid - Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) July 8, 2020

The proposal could have embarrassed the Likud-blue-white government. By raising the proposal for the agenda, the opposition could force Knesset members to vote for the establishment of an inquiry committee on the issue - a decision that would put them on an immediate clash with Likud members, or against the establishment of an inquiry committee - a step that would completely abandon one of the election promises The Significance and Majority of Blue and White in Recent Elections. 

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Replacement Prime Minister and current Defense Minister MK Benny Gantz spoke just a few months ago about the importance of setting up an investigative committee in the submarine affair. In late February, just days before the 23rd Knesset elections, Gantz wrote in his Twitter account: It is the most serious security corruption case in the history of the country. I pledge to set up a state commission of inquiry to make sure they never trade in Israeli security again. "

The submarine affair is the most serious security corruption case in the history of the country. I pledge to set up a state commission of inquiry to make sure they never trade in Israeli security again.



Netanyahu must explain to the public how he earned NIS 16 million in the submarine and stock affair.

- Benny Gantz - Benny Gantz (@gantzbe) February 27, 2020

Contrary to what the Prime Minister said during the campaign for the 23rd Knesset as a politician, former Chief of Staff Gantz said other things about the conduct of the political echelon in the affair. In January 2018, Gantz addressed the affair at the Herods Hotel Corporation Conference in Eilat, saying that he believed the political echelons were motivated: "I am convinced, from the political echelon, that there was no corruption in this affair."