Yesterday we revealed the saga for the first time: The Ministry of Defense claims that Shas is failing the law due to the closure of a bread bakery in the north • Ganz: "The law is stuck due to political blackmail"
The signal of the campaign is in danger because of political accounts
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Mickey French, "In Camp"
The president, who is on a state visit to Germany, today (Wednesday) addressed Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, asking him that Shas take responsibility and not prevent the passage of the law from awarding a battle signal to SLA members for political motives.
Rivlin spoke with him following a request from Chief of Staff Kochavi who is with him in Germany.
Defense Minister Gantz addressed the issue this morning, saying: "IDF and IDF fighters should know that the Likud, Gafni and Deri are preventing them from receiving the signal for fighting in the security zone only for political reasons. I know how important this signal is to fighters, and the law that will allow us to grant it "Stuck because of political blackmail and lies. There are things that are above politics. I call on them to recover immediately."
As mentioned, yesterday we revealed for the first time that giving the battle signal for fighting in southern Lebanon is in danger.
The Ministry of Defense claims that Shas refuses to put to the vote the law awarding the battle signal to SLA members.
If the law is not passed today, the signaling to SLA personnel will be postponed to the next government, and it is likely that the defense establishment will wait with the signal distribution to all combatants in order to grant them to SLA fighters and personnel together.
Israel Today has learned that MK Yinon Azulai of Shas yesterday submitted a revision (request for a new discussion) on the Finance Committee's decision to award the battle signal to the SLA members.
As a result, the law has not yet been approved, and if there is no change, it will not be possible to give the signal in time to SLA members during the current government, and most likely not even on the upcoming Memorial Day.
As stated, the defense establishment will have to consider whether to award the signal to the fighters in the security strip without SLA personnel, or, more likely, the granting of the entire signal will be postponed at this stage.
The defense establishment believes that the reason why Shas decided not to put the law to a vote yesterday was the closure of the bakery in Kiryat Shmona.
In light of the desire to pass the law to award the battle signal, the Ministry of Defense issued an unusual announcement yesterday that "at the request of the Ministry of Economy and in an attempt to assist bakery employees, the Ministry of Defense procrastinated until the end of April 2021. Pastry for the IDF.
This is to enable the Ministry of Economy to exhaust the examination of possibilities to help the spatial mafia in Kiryat Shmona continue to operate. "
A spokesman for the chairman of the Finance Committee, MK Moshe Gafni, said: "At the end of this morning's discussion in the committee, the law was approved for a second and third reading and will go to a vote in the Knesset plenum tomorrow."
A spokesman for MK Azulai said: "MK Azulai submitted the revision following the conduct of the Ministry of Defense towards 120 employees of the Spatial Bakery in Kiryat Shmona.
Following the submission of the revision, the Ministry of Defense announced unilaterally that it was suspending the tender for the supply of bread to the IDF for another month until April.
"If it was important to the defense minister from 150 families of the bakery workers, no less than SLA members, this would have taken place in peace, but unfortunately so far the ministry has chosen not to contact us on the matter but to issue a press release.
MK Azoulay sees great importance in promoting the law as a sign of recognition for SLA members.
"However, MK Azulai is extremely concerned that 150 families on Passover eve will be fired and left without a piece of bread. If their demand is accepted, MK Azulai will remove the revision and push for the law to be approved by the committee," it said.