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After revealing that Education Minister Yoav Kish decided to cancel the awarding of most Israel awards this year, except for the award that will be dedicated to bravery, the journalist Ben Caspit attacked Kish in a post he wrote in X and stated: "He is a wretched man."
According to the publication, Kish's decision came after the committee authorized to choose the winner of the entrepreneurship award decided to award it to businessman Eyal Waldman, who is considered a prominent opponent of the legal revolution, and even publicly protested against it.
"The man who came to politics on the wings of 'burden equality' has become a worm's tail who sells his soul for nothing and nothing. I prefer to him types like Dodi Amsalem and even Itamar Ben-Gvir. There are no expectations from them. One is a businessman, the other an extreme ideologue. Kish came in disguise of a liberal. He also lies," Caspit wrote in response to Kish, who denied the publication.
"The committee that was established to award the Israel Prize for Entrepreneurs of the Year sat on the dais for many weeks. It was around December. There were many meetings. There was someone who wrote down the main points. Two worthy and honorable candidates reached the final," Caspit began to explain.
Eyal Waldman (Melanox) and Dov Moran (inventor of the on-key disk).
The committee gave ratings on quite a few criteria.
Waldman was elected."
"As soon as this became known to the 'Minister of Education', a secret storm broke out," Caspit claimed. "He tried to convince them to get rid of Waldman.
Did not succeed.
There were those who suggested an alternative name: Prof. Shulamit Levenberg, one of the inventors of genetically engineered meat.
Beyond her rights (and they are many), Levenberg belongs to religious Zionism.
She will not 'be ashamed'"
Ben Caspit, January 1, 2023/photo processing, Reuven Castro
As mentioned, Waldman was chosen by a majority of votes to receive the Israel Prize for Entrepreneurship by a special committee established to select the winner.
The committee was chaired by Ami Appelbaum, who until recently was the chief scientist, and besides him there were two other members.
"The committee did not give up. Waldman was elected. With all due respect to Lebenberg (who is not aware of all this dancing around her, of course), this is about entrepreneurship and not science. Lebenberg is at the beginning of the road. Waldman brought billions of shekels into the country, he employs thousands of workers, Mellanox's technology One of the secrets of NVIDIA's current success and has elevated Israel to the top league of the world of technology. What did the 'Minister of Education' do when he saw that he was unable to sway the professional committee? He canceled everything."
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"The members of the award committee took precautions before deciding: they contacted all three candidates who reached the final stage and asked them to commit that they would not use the award or the status of its award for any political acts. All of them committed. Including Waldman."
"According to quite a few testimonies, the intervention in the procedure and the final cancellation of all the awards were not the initiative of the 'Minister of Education', but came about through external intervention. I leave it to you to imagine whose. In my opinion, Waldman did not know until my first tweet that he had indeed won the award at the end of He did know that he was one of the candidates. I am told that he is on a long flight to the West Coast and therefore cannot respond," Caspis signed the text he wrote.
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