Today (Sunday), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a hotel in Eilat on the occasion of the opening of the industry using the green label and participated in the state ceremony marking the liberation of Eilat and the hoisting of the 72nd ink flag.
Earlier today, Netanyahu and Minister of Environmental Protection Gila Gamliel toured the beach in Ashdod in light of the ecological tar hazard. The tour was also attended by Ashdod Mayor Dr. Yehiel Lasri, Bat Yam Mayor Zvika Brut, Ashkelon Mayor Tomer Glam, Acting Prime Minister Tzachi Braverman, Director General of the Ministry of Environmental Protection David Yahalomi and Prime Minister Adviser on Rights Ltd. Tal Gilboa.
Benjamin Netanyahu and Gila Gamliel at the beach (Photo: Kobi Gideon, GPO)Netanyahu said: “I was very impressed by the volunteering of the citizens who came to clean the beaches, this is an example and a model. We must preserve our beaches, our country, the environment. Minister Gamliel will bring a plan to the government tomorrow with a budget to clean the beaches. I am very impressed by work. “The Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Nature and Citizens Protection Authority. Citizenship is the most endearing thing, very impressive and touching. There is a lot of work to be done here.”
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Minister Gamliel said: “In order to overcome the battle, we need to raise tens of millions of shekels that will be invested in cleaning the beaches. We have the option to sue the insurance company of the ship responsible for the pollution, and we will do everything to locate it. Our moral duty to the public and the environment is to locate those responsible for the event. Our goal is to open the bathing season on time. We need to look to the future – this event and other events in the world teach us how necessary it is to get rid of the polluting fuels and move to renewable energies. “
“I wish for the day when the State of Israel will be a country that returns to sanity”
Mayor of Eilat, Meir Yitzhak Halevi, Spoke with Ben Caspit and Aryeh Eldad on 103FM ahead of the ceremony, and after the mayor wrote an angry post when he learned that the prime minister had joined the ceremony at the last minute. “The prime minister has decided to do as usual and turn the event from a clean, sterile, dignified event into an event that is all about politics,” said Yitzhak Halevi.
You wrote a very angry post today. Were supposed to be President Rivlin and you as mayor. A state ceremony that does not involve politics. Netanyahu stepped inside at the last minute. But even in 2017 he arrived.
“There is no problem with him coming, this year I will stand on stage for the 18th time as mayor And there has never been a situation where three days before a ceremony, the whole order is changed. I in early January received a state-national event, I received approval from the Presidential Office that he would attend, it was very important to me at this time that the President of the country would come because he is free of any political color and he approved, and so we organized. “In invitations issued to the public, our country’s president Reuven Ruby Rivlin appears there and three days before the event, the Prime Minister’s Office announces that he has decided to come. As a result, what happened and both the president and Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot chose not to come.”
Maybe they are the problem? Boycott it.
“We have been running the event for many years, let’s not be naive. Such an event is not scheduled two or three days before. This morning I got up and was informed that they had changed the order of the speakers, does that make sense? We live in hallucinatory worlds? Since when has the Prime Minister’s Office intervened? Has the information provided? For me the state ceremony is clean, so it has been in the 17 years I have attended it. I think this is unworthy and disrespectful. “
Benjamin Netanyahu in Eilat (Photo: Dudu Bachar)Is this unilateral on the part of the Prime Minister? Or the fact that Yifat Shasha Bitton was elected as the Knesset representative.
“Who chose her? Yariv and chose her, Speaker of the Knesset.”
And replaced it when it was published.
“True, the one who runs away from the Knesset members is the Speaker of the Knesset. Apparently someone was angry with him. “
Decided it was not good that it would be seen as an event of new hope. Did you invite the Prime Minister a few months ago?
“We are at this event, usually the one who orders and sets it up is the information center, of course they also ask the opinion of the city. I said and accepted my position this when an event is a month before elections, it would be good if a president painted in clean colors stood there. I asked for confirmation that I Can stand on the stage and I got.Three days before an event, the Prime Minister decided that he does as usual and turns the event from a clean, sterile, respectable event, to an event that is all politics.Today there are three demonstrations around the event, when were there demonstrations? Never and never. “Complain about them – the division and the split. There is no problem for the prime minister to participate in the event, but when that happens, there is bluntness and insensitivity and it is a pity that this is the case.”
What will you tell him?
“I will say in the speech that I wish for the day when the State of Israel will be a state that returns to sanity, that love becomes our lot, a very stately speech. I will address the issue of the corona and Sde Dov, but I will cry out the cry of the people of Israel who cry for brotherhood and unity.”
It seems that Netanyahu succeeds in forming a ‘right-wing’ government
“When I see the extremist figures he is authoring, I’m not sure it’s a success I would be proud of if there was success. In my opinion, the only reasonable and realistic alternative to forming a center-right coalition is in the hands of Gideon Saar. I believe that will happen and pray it will happen.”
Bennett holds the keys.
“I hope that Bennett will finally announce where he is headed. It seems at the moment that Bennett is connected to Benjamin Netanyahu. I hope not.”
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“Horrible and terrible, I say this for a long time – we have deteriorated to frightening and dangerous depths. I think there are red lines that must not be crossed and we see how lines are crossed. It has to be stopped and fast.”
Meir Yitzhak Halevi (Photo: Hadas Porush, Flash 90)