Eyal Veldman shares his feelings about the disqualification of the Israel Prize in the Knesset/Knesset Channel
The Prime Minister's wife, Sara Netanyahu, was outraged last week over Education Minister Yoav Kish's decision to hold the Israel Awards ceremony on the planned Independence Day, and to award the award to entrepreneur Eyal Waldman.
According to sources close to the Prime Minister, Sara Netanyahu asked those close to the Prime Minister to convey angry messages to Kish and express her displeasure with the decision.
Kish announced last week that, contrary to his initial decision, the Israel Awards ceremony will be held this year on Independence Day as usual, and prizes will be awarded to winners in all categories, including a Israel for Innovation to Waldman, the founder of Mellanox and one of the leaders of the Israeli high-tech world, who honored his daughter Daniel at the Nova party on October 7. This, after in early March Kish ordered the cancellation of the awarding of the award, citing the adaptation of the ceremony to the war situation. However, Ben Caspit revealed that the decision to cancel the awards It was received after Lakish learned of the award committee's selection of Boldman, who is known to be opposed to the Netanyahu government and the legal revolution, as the winner of the Israel Prize for Innovation.
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Yoav Kish and Sarah Netanyahu/photo processing, photo: Liron Moldovan/Flash 90, Rami Shloush
In recent weeks, Kish has denied Waldman's claim, according to which he did not act on his own accord but according to instructions from above and from the Prime Minister's entourage.
"According to what I was told, the person who disputed the decision to actually disqualify my candidacy is one, Mr. Shlomi Vogel, a well-known businessman close to the Prime Minister and his wife," Waldman said at the beginning of this month in a hearing in the Knesset.
Despite the public criticism and indignation, the Minister of Education persisted in his position not to award the Israel Awards in the usual categories but only in two special categories of heroism related to the war, but last week he announced that he withdrew when he realized that he would not receive legal backing at the High Court.
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Eil Waldman in a debate in the Knesset/official website, photo: Noam Moshkowitz, spokeswoman for the Knesset
However, despite Kish's vehement denials about the involvement of anyone from Netanyahu's circle in his decisions, sources close to the prime minister told Walla!
Because Sara Netanyahu was outraged by the decision to hold the ceremony and award the prize to Waldman and wanted to convey angry and disappointed messages to him.
The office of the Minister of Education Kish stated in response: "All decisions regarding the Israel Prize were made by Minister Kish in consultation with the professionals of the profession only. All along the way there were no inquiries of any kind from any party."
On behalf of Sara Netanyahu, it was stated: "The news is false and made up from start to finish. Sara Netanyahu never spoke with Minister Kish or anyone on his behalf on the issue. The trend of the media to invent lies about Sara Netanyahu and to hide behind the secrecy of sources who define themselves as 'closers' has continued for many years in a cynical manner And the most evil. If the media had exposed those 'closers', the public would have been exposed to the big bluff of the industry of serial fabrication of lies about Sarah Netanyahu."
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