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An associate of the commissioner and the factory that was disqualified: This is how they tried to sell unnecessary weapons to the police during the "Wall Guard" - Walla! News

2021-12-06T11:23:15.722Z


One morning in May, a former senior police officer entered the office of his friend Saturn. After a few minutes, he met with the head of the AJM and asked to promote the sale of rifles from a factory that had previously been disqualified from approaching a police tender - and was rejected outright: "Like an attempt to pressure professionals, it must be investigated."


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An associate of the commissioner and the factory that was disqualified: this is how they tried to sell unnecessary weapons to the police during the "guard of the walls"

One morning in May, a former senior police officer entered the office of his friend Saturn.

After a few minutes, he met with the head of the AJM and asked to promote the sale of rifles from a factory that had previously been disqualified from approaching a police tender - and was rejected outright: "Like an attempt to pressure professionals, it must be investigated."

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In the video: The commissioner clarifies that the police have achieved control and calm in all sectors of the riots in the country (Photo: Yotam Ronen, Editing: Aviad Ballali)

Walla! Shows that the former border guard commander retired Commander Amos Yaakov, a close associate of the chief of police Kobi Shabtai, allegedly tried to promote a deal to purchase guns for the Israeli police even though there was no need, the factory was disqualified in 2015 from approaching a police auction.



Jacob relations exist and Saturn Yaakov even described in the past how he saved Shabtai's life in January 2003, when the two chased a squad of terrorists who infiltrated Gadish in the Gilboa Regional Council, murdered the security patrol and wounded fighters. Saturn then shot at one of them and wounded him - but he himself was hit by a bullet. Yaakov then made contact and hit one of the terrorists.



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It appears that last May, at the end of Operation Wall Guard, the former superintendent arrived at the Tel Aviv District Commissioner's office early in the morning, and the two met in private for a few minutes. , And there he sat for a meeting with Superintendent Avi Bitton, who was then commander of the police operations division.

The meeting was scheduled in advance the day before.

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Amos Yaakov and Kobi Shabtai at the 2016 Border Police Change of Command Ceremony (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

Senior police sources say that Yaakov allegedly wanted to promote the sale of M-16 rifles from the "Emetan" factory in Karmiel, which deals with the development and production of weapons.

The factory works with the Border Police, but was disqualified in 2015 from submitting a police tender for the purchase of rifles, since the factory did not meet the quantitative criteria defined by the police. L "Emetan" explained in a conversation with Walla!

Because he decided to withdraw the petition after realizing that he had no chance of winning it.



Bitton immediately made it clear that the police have no need for this.

Sources involved in the details told Walla!

Because at the end of the meeting, Superintendent Bitton felt uncomfortable in the face of the situation, in which an associate of the commissioner, a former superintendent of police, tries to promote an unnecessary arms deal with a disqualified company.

Police take shelter in Lod, May 2021 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Senior police officers said in a conversation with Walla!

Because at the beginning of the riots in the cities involved, the police discovered significant deficiencies in means of dispersing riots such as stun grenades and rubber bullets, and came out with a massive purchase for an emergency - a situation that does not require a tender.

Police officials were exposed details were shocked, they say, the way in which Jacob, near the well-known individual commissioner, seeks to promote the alleged arms deal without tender under the understatement of emergency, even though that was not necessary.



"It felt like an attempt to pressure the authorities profession "To carry out an arms deal with a company that did not meet the threshold set by the police in the past, then a former senior police officer under the auspices of the 'Wall Guard' arrives and tries to promote an unnecessary arms deal at the back door," he told a Walla! .

That's just the tip of the iceberg in this story. "

Yaakov: "Draw a picture that has nothing to do with reality"

Retired Superintendent Amos Yaakov initially denied having a meeting with the Israel Police and claimed that he had nothing to do with the issue, and even went on to say that he "does not sell deadly weapons." He later changed his version and admitted that he did indeed advise an arms company, but claimed that it was a different company. Senior police sources stressed in a conversation with Walla! Because contrary to the claim of retired Chief of Staff Yaakov, he did talk to Chief of Staff Avi Bitton about the "Emetan" company and not about another company. At the "Emetan" factory, they denied and claimed that retired superintendent Yaakov was not working for them.



Yaakov rejected the allegations in the investigation. "First, I never denied anything that was. The truth was and still is a candle to my feet after decades of security service and the decoration of courage I received for maintaining Israel's security. Your first address to me was full of mistakes and incorrect facts. And as I said I never represented 'Truth'"I did not meet with her or on her behalf with anyone in the police and I stand behind my words," he said.



"I met regarding a tender of another company that I represent, which supplies weapons to the IDF and the security forces.

Its disqualification on the basis of one test during the trials of one of the weapons not according to the rules of the tender as issued and written by the Israel Police, raised a 'strange smell' and therefore I asked to point this out to the then head of the AJM. The Planning and Organization Division of the police thus ended a meeting of a few minutes.

"I referred in a conversation with the head of the AJM to a test performed on one of the weapons, when the test did not meet the test procedure as written by the Israel Police itself," he added.

"Feeling uncomfortable in the face of the situation."

Superintendent Avi Bitton (Photo: Israel Police Spokeswoman)

Regarding the meeting with the commissioner, Yaakov emphasized that there is no connection between the things. "On that occasion, I took advantage of my arrival in the Tel Aviv district on the day the commissioner was assessed. Of The Guardian of the Walls.

There is an attempt here to link different information details from different transactions and different tenders and to paint a picture that has nothing to do with reality. "The



Israel Police stated that" as is customary in the defense system, And according to all the requirements, and also in the case in question the issue will be examined and therefore excluded by the police.

"We emphasize that no police source has tried to promote the purchase of weapons that are not subject to police procedures, and any attempt by unknown sources to attribute such a thing, even if not explicitly, is a sin against the truth and harms the police."

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