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Volunteers or militias: The debate between Bennett, Shaked and Bar-Lev over the National Guard - Walla! news

2022-05-12T19:00:38.768Z


The ministers debated the involvement of the Hashomer Hahadash organization with the security forces. The organization, some of whose members are close to Bennett and Shaked, has long been pushing to operate as a separate body within the police. Bar-Lev objected: "Flow them to the police like any other volunteer." Bennett: "Find a way to tell them 'yes''"


Volunteers or militias: The debate between Bennett, Shaked and Bar-Lev over the National Guard

The ministers debated the involvement of the Hashomer Hahadash organization with the security forces.

The organization, some of whose members are close to Bennett and Shaked, has long been pushing to operate as a separate body within the police.

Bar-Lev objected: "Flow them to the police like any other volunteer."

Bennett: "Find a way to tell them 'yes''"

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12/05/2022

Thursday, May 12, 2022, 9:48 p.m.

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During the discussion held today by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on the issue of establishing a "National Guard", which will be responsible for internal security, a debate took place regarding the involvement of the "New Guard" organization in the activities of the new body to be established.

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why is it important:

Some of the members of Hashomer Hahadash have been close to Bennett and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked for years.

The members of the organization have been pushing for a long time to allow them to operate as a separate and independent body within the arrays of the police and the Border Police. However, the Ministry of Internal Security, the police and the Border Police oppose this.

Want to operate as a separate and independent body within the arrays of the police and the Border Police (Photo: Reuters)

Behind the Scenes:

  • A source who participated in the discussion noted that Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked and the director general of her office, who are close to Hashomer Hahadash members, came to the hearing even though he did not directly touch on their area of ​​concern.

  • Interior Minister Shaked said at the meeting that she met the Hashomer Hahadash members and they told her that they had thousands of volunteers but that the police were not willing to take them into its ranks.

    "How is it that there are organizations or volunteers who really want to be active and are not given in," Shaked said, according to three sources mentioned in the contents of the meeting.

  • Homeland Security Minister Amar Bar-Lev replied to Shaked that "he has no problem with the Hashomer Hahadash people, but the goal is to stream them to the police and the border like any other volunteer." "We do not want to create militias," Bar-Lev said according to the three sources. .

"The way to strengthen the 'National Guard' is not to produce separate units," Bar-Lev (Photo: GSS)

  • A source who attended the meeting said that the Minister of Internal Security and his office presented data according to which out of 8,000 volunteers in the police and the Border Police, only about 300 are members of the new guard.

  • Representatives of the Ministry of Homeland Security argued that Hashomer Hahadash members demand to volunteer as police officers in their own separate units, at the times they choose and on specific tasks assigned to them - and in fact not be subordinate to police station commanders like other volunteers.

  • Prime Minister Naftali Bennett responded to Bar-Lev's remarks and said that "I also do not want militias but also do not want there to be a situation where there are thousands of people who want to volunteer and you in the police say no."

    Bennett added: "Find a way to say yes to them, do not blame the volunteers. For me, a specific organization of one kind or another is less important, the new guard is only one option. The goal is for it to exist."

  • The Minister of Internal Security said that the "National Guard" is a border and the way to strengthen it is not to produce new separate units or privatize it but to improve the volunteering processes. "This is what was done," he said.

What next:

At the conclusion of the discussion, it was decided to accept the position presented by the Ministry of Internal Security, according to which the Border Police will be the "National Guard."

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