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The Board of the Airports Authority today (Thursday) approved the removal of the CEO of the Airport Authority, Major General Hagai Topolansky.
He was appointed by the previous Minister of Transportation, Merav Michaeli, and took up his position only seven months ago, and is already considered a successful CEO. During the short time he has been managing the authority, the lines at the security check in the National Airport have been shortened dramatically, the flights from Ramon Airport have been regulated and expanded, and the proportion of international flights that take off on time The number of civilians increased by about 30% to about 60%.
Topolansky, a former fighter pilot, commander of squadrons and bases, deputy commander of the Air Force and head of the personnel department in the IDF, was appointed to his position after being selected for the position by a search committee.
All this did not help him from the moment Miri Regev returned to the office of the Minister of Transportation, and began going over the lists of appointments made during the Michaeli period.
Major General Hagai Topolansky (Photo: IDF Spokesman)
Officially, the impeachment initiative was led by the Chairman of the Airports Authority Alof Yitzhak Gershon, who was appointed by Regev in her previous term. Relations between Gershon and Topolansky were correct until the upheaval in the elections, and became hostile on Gershon's part with Regev's return to the office. As published yesterday in Vala, in
addition Gershon now has eight members on the authority's board of directors, of which four are government officials, two of whom report directly to Regev, and four external directors. The list of government officials includes Avner Flor, appointed by Regev to the position of Director General of the Ministry of Transportation, as a mentor to its former chief of staff Danny Ben Zaken. Another member is Noa Litmanovich, head of the economics department at the Public Transportation Authority in the ministry.
Two other representatives come from government ministries that are not subject to Regev: Merav Dadosh from the Tax Authority, deputy assessor 1 in Tel Aviv, and Yasmin Abu Paul from the Ministry of Justice, a senior official at the state's attorney's office in the district Haifa.
The external directors of the council are Vared Svid, Anat Cohen Shephacht, Ayelet Eisen and Gabi Knafo.
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Minister of Transportation, Regev (Photo: Government Press Office, Miri Shimonovitz, Chief Minister)
The Board of the Airports Authority decided to remove Topolonsky from the position of Director General of the Authority. According to the Board's announcement at the end of the hearing: "The Board listened extensively to the Director General's answers to the claims made against him in writing and discussed with his attorney and with him the depth of matters. After that, a long and substantive discussion took place in The Council, accompanied by legal advice and accompanied by the Internal Auditor of the Israel Defense Forces, and at the end of it, the Council decided, by a majority vote, to recommend to the Minister of Transportation and Road Safety the termination of his work as CEO of the Airports Authority.
Following the recommendation, Topolansky announced his resignation.
His lawyer, Ila Honigman, said that "less than four hours had passed since the hearing, during which a lot of claims and information were presented, and the chairman had already informed the CEO that it had been decided to recommend to the Minister for his dismissal. This clearly shows the extraneous considerations in the process. The CEO's resignation letter" The one that was delivered a few minutes ago speaks for itself."
"Regev uses the Ministry of Transportation to bring jobs to associates", Merav Michaeli (Photo: Reuven Castro)
In his resignation letter, Topolansky charged: "Recently, I have seen how politics, threats, foreign considerations and improper processes outweigh performance, values of the public good and the general good."
Merav Michaeli, who appointed Toponalski to his position, said in response to the removal that "It took me a long time as Minister of Transportation to clean the office of unprofessional political appointments and bring in professionals who will serve the public properly. Regev issues a contract for those professionals and uses the Ministry of Transportation to bring in jobs To the insiders. Just like in the regime coup - a government that only cares about itself, and to hell with the state and the public."
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