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Businessman Ilan Shiloh, who accompanies the protest against the current Netanyahu government as a campaigner, tells Guy Rolnik in a rare interview that "spies were sent to him".
In an interview that will be broadcast tonight (Sunday), in the final episode of the investigative program "Rolnik Report" at 21:30 on Kan 11, Shiloh talks about the reasons he joined the struggle, and about his anger towards Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his government.
Watch a short preview of the episode here.
"I haven't been interviewed in 15 years," says Shiloh, who usually expresses himself on Twitter, quoting what he wrote the day after the government was sworn in: "Dawn of a Black Day. The people chose religious ultra-Orthodox racists and bibists. The losers: secularists, women, LGBTs, the justice system and democracy. Israel is marching to power Masculine, racist, ultra religious."
Rolnik asks if among Netanyahu's staff, "the number one wanted is Ilan Shiloh."
"I may be one of the most wanted, yes, certainly in the first 20," the latter replies, and claims: "I know they sent me spies as well."
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"Since the protest, I started smoking, a pack a day. Until I was 60 years old, I never touched a cigarette in my life, I lost it," says Shiloh, who says he hasn't slept since last January.
"Everything is doomed if we don't stop it, today we understand that we have to fight for a country that we lost in the last 30 years when we drank coffee, traveled abroad, made careers, went to high-tech, and little by little they took the country from us with the Salami method. Right now We are at war to stop what is happening, but the implication is that the government needs to be overthrown to change the... where we are going and it will take many years to restore everything that was here."
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