Two days before National Resistance Day, members of the Business Sector Forum will convene in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening for a secret meeting to which the chairman of the state camp, Benny Gantz, was also invited. The forum includes the heads of large companies such as Fox owner Harel Wiesel, controlling shareholder and chairman of Ofer Investments and Melisron, Liora Ofer, CEOs of the large banks and more.
Demonstrators block the Ayalon Highway on the day of the disruption, photo: Coco
According to estimates by sources close to the government, members of the Economic Forum will try to pressure Gantz to enter Netanyahu's government in the hope that some of the right-wing parties that make up the government will emerge from it and a unity/centrist government will be formed.
At the same time, members of the Business Forum continue to exert pressure on Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar-David in order to get him off the fence and shut down the economy in order to prevent the unilateral advancement of legal legislation.
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It should be recalled that senior economic officials did not cooperate last week with the attempts of the open mall company BIG to shut down operations last Tuesday, partly due to the lack of Histadrut support.
"Accepting the demonstrations with understanding"
Over the weekend, demonstrations were held in front of Bar-David's home in an attempt to enlist him in the struggle against advancing the legal legislation unilaterally. Sources close to Bar-David told Israel Hayom that "the Histadrut chairman accepts the demonstrations with understanding," and that there is nothing new at this stage. Last week, Bar-David noted that as far as he was concerned, "the red line is the committee for selecting judges."
Chairman of the Histadrut Arnon Bar-David, Photo: Gideon Markowitz
The Histadrut chairman addressed the upheaval and said that he would use the Histadrut's power when he decided that a decision had to be made. "Shutting down the economy is not child's play," he said at a conference of committee leaders in Tel Aviv last week.
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