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2021-02-24T17:01:52.136Z


| In the country The Negev Bedouin Settlement Authority has complained about a contractor hired by a guard from a crime family - while its representatives allegedly came to a hearing on protection with a criminal record holder The scene of the robbery at the construction site in the village of Umm Batin Last Thursday, engineering tools were stolen from a construction site in the village of Umm Batin in the Nege


The Negev Bedouin Settlement Authority has complained about a contractor hired by a guard from a crime family - while its representatives allegedly came to a hearing on protection with a criminal record holder

  • The scene of the robbery at the construction site in the village of Umm Batin

Last Thursday, engineering tools were stolen from a construction site in the village of Umm Batin in the Negev.

Ironically, it turned out that the theft was carried out even though the contractor hired to guard one of the brothers of a known criminal from the area, who made it difficult to carry out the work from the beginning.

"Israel Today" has learned that the contractor Shimon Hadad hired these guard services, which in all practical respects are actually considered as protection fees, after no other party agreed to guard the site, and he was left alone in the face of threats from criminals.

It was also learned that the Bedouin Settlement Authority in the Negev and the police knew about it all along, but did not object. 

A publication in "Israel Today" earlier this week quoted the regulation authority, which placed the responsibility for what happened to the contractor: "Strangely and strangely, he decided to hire the services of a criminal belonging to a criminal gang as a guard for his IDF compound," the authority said in a statement. The responsibility for the contractor caused a stir, and government and other bodies expressed resentment.

However, it now turns out that the person who came into contact with the offender in question in the first place was the authority for the regulation itself.

Israel Today has learned that when the work began about two years ago, it was the Bedouin Settlement Authority in the Negev that recommended the contractor set up his engineering tool complex near the offender's house, claiming that under his auspices it would be easier to move forward and prevent problems. 

Not only that, about a year ago, when frictions began with the offender and his demands for various payments increased, plus a number of incidents of threats and arguments that led to work breaks, it was senior PA officials who went to meet him at Aroma Restaurant in Be'er Sheva, trying to straighten things out.

If that was not enough, even when the police intervened and started an undercover operation that eventually led to the arrest of the offender last December (since he was released under house arrest), PA representatives continued to meet with him and try to reach agreements with him. 

"Israel Today" learned that last August, PA officials met with the contractor at the home of one of his wives, a Jew of Russian descent who lives in the Ramot neighborhood of Be'er Sheva, for a lunch known as the "couscous meeting."

At this meeting, works on the site for the construction of an industrial area in the village of Umm Batin were discussed, works managed by another contractor, in this case a Bedouin, who in the meantime gave up and abandoned the project. 

During this meeting, the authority's representatives tried to please the offender, and to reach agreements with him on conditions for the continued development and maintenance of the site.

"They came out of these meetings feeling good," the source said in detail.

"They thought they could talk to him, please him and that they could buy their quiet with money."

According to them, after the connections with the offender in question had already been established, which began as stated in the authority's recommendation, the contractor was left with no choice.

In this context, the fact that the Director General of the Regulatory Authority, Yair Maayan, places full responsibility on the contractor, arouses great anger. “They were the first to succumb to blackmail and protectionism.

So now that it's exploded on them are they abandoning the contractor like that? ", The source wondered.

The Negev Bedouin Settlement Authority responded: "All PA and contractor projects in the Bedouin localities require the organization of the organization complex. Projects, the first project was carried out near the house of the offender in question, so the contractor was offered to place the contractor's compound near his house and keep the engineering tools. Later it turned out that he was the offender, and the authority filed several complaints against the police and prosecutor about a year and a half ago.

"Thus began a police investigation against him, which led to the arrest of all members of his gang."

"After the gang members were arrested, one of its members was recently released, who a few months ago tried to extort sponsorship fees from the contractor, for which the police investigation took place. The contractor returned it to keep his tools, while PA employees did not recommend taking him as a guard, as he tried to extort the contractor. "In the past. The authority does not allow the collection of sponsorship fees and certainly does not act that way. The work in the industrial area is carried out by the Ministry of Economy and not by the Bedouin Authority. We do not sell a meeting at Aroma or at the house of the same criminal."

Source: israelhayom

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