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Conflicts in meetings and personal attacks from Netanyahu: The conflict that led to Meridor's resignation

The head of the budget department did not spare criticism from Minister Katz in the scathing resignation letter he wrote, which in fact summed up four months of conflicts that led the senior official to decide to end his term. Distrust of Katz, the corona crisis, and the campaign against it by the Prime Minister: this is how relations at the top of the treasury deteriorated

• Ministry of Finance
• Shaul Meridor
• Israel Katz
• Benjamin Netanyahu

Dana Yarkatzi

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In the long letter of resignation submitted yesterday (Sunday) by Finance Minister Shaul Meridor to Finance Minister Israel Katz, he spared no criticism of him for managing the crisis - one of the largest in Israel. In the letter, Meridor spoke about how decisions are made in the ministry, which he claims are influenced by narrow interests, how the budget framework changes without long-term discussion or thinking, and the attacks by Likud and the minister himself against him and his colleagues.

In fact, in his letter, the budget commissioner summed up four months of difficult clashes in the ministry, which were known to everyone. This, along with an aggressive campaign led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against the son of his former political rival Dan Meridor.

Despite the sensitive timing in the midst of crisis management, there were those who were not surprised by Meridor's letter. "I am surprised that so far this has not happened," said a source present at the finance meetings. "For four months now there has been a complete lack of trust between them in the meetings. Katz consults other people, does not consult members of the budget department and not at all with Shaul. In the meetings they both attended, Katz ignored Shaul's statements, there was insane tension between them, Israel is not a person being told No, because whoever opposes his views is immediately considered a suspect, it started there. "

Katz was briefed before entering the office. Shaul Meridor (Photo: Adina Wallman, Knesset Spokeswoman)

But it seems that it was not just the centralized style of the finance minister that created the tensions between the two. Katz entered his office after a series of briefings, including on the part of former Minister Moshe Kahlon, who claimed that Meridor was torpedoing decisions for him. The bad temper continued in front of him in a fierce campaign led by the prime minister against Meridor "the son of" a senior Likud prince, who defected in support of blue and white.

In contrast to Kahlon, who despite the battles with the budget department used to remain open to different opinions of his office staff and let everyone express their opinion, Katz used to make decisions on his own, which left the budget department able to express a position. Some in the Treasury believe that Katz entered a briefed office, so that if he had to get rid of someone, that person would be from Shaul Meridor.

But the public rift began when Meridor was critical of the political echelon in charge of his office. During a discussion at the Aaron Institute at the Tiomkin School of Economics, at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, he said about the grant program for families presented by Netanyahu and Katz that "we will implement the policy we decide on and will not stop voicing our position even if we do not like it."

Meridor added, "Reliability is something that has been built over time, and destroyed pretty quickly. The government passes a law in the Knesset on a certain framework for the economic plan and in the evening announces another framework (the NIS 6 billion grant program) - we as a government must declare plans that see all considerations "And not those who chase after each other, and try and arrange it in a slightly more orderly way."

"We will not accept this." The post of MK Qarai who shares on Netanyahu's Facebook page

As a result, on the same day, the Prime Minister shared a post by MK Shlomo Qarai from his party against Shaul Meridor, in which he wrote: "It is inconceivable that officials are briefed against decisions made in the government and are working to thwart them. We will not accept this. "

Netanyahu's campaign against Meridor could have been seen even earlier, on the Instagram account of his son, Yair Netanyahu, in which he wrote in a post he called the finance officials" terrorists. " To stir up the people, "the prime minister's son wrote at the time. Meridor mentioned this attack in his letter as part of the attacks against him and his employees in the Ministry of Finance that had to be dealt with.

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But the clashes in the Ministry of Finance were not just Meridor's concern. The director general of the ministry, the Turner-Eyal Foundation, which is a personal appointment of the minister and is considered a servant in a position of trust, issued a statement of support for the head of the department. She was later reprimanded by Minister Katz. the treasury's budget Shaul Meridor, including discussion of the gods really developing social networks, "wrote Turner-Isle.

" it's important for me to mention - the role of each level of professional cabinet is to assist in the design and formulation of public policy, including to strive for. "Katz responded to:" It is not your job to react and quarrel and defend officials in front of the political echelon, regardless of the content of things. Your job is to make the decisions of the political echelon. As Minister of Finance, I have the ultimate responsibility for office activities and I knew and will continue to clearly defend the positive contribution of the professional factors in the Ministry of Finance to the success and implementation of economic programs. "This reprimand was not the only one. .

At the moment, it is not certain that Meridor will be the only one to submit a letter of dismissal in his office, in which they tell of a very tense and difficult atmosphere, when under Minister Katz there is no room for professionals to voice their opinions, grow, build plans and processes. "The last period was difficult, everyone was shouting," said officials at the Ministry of Finance. "At the end of the day, no one really has the ability to influence. Shaul understood this and resigned in time."

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