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Israel's countrywide safety agency (NSA) replied Wednesday to claims made by way of blatantly anti-Netanyahu Channel 10, concerning the buy of four warships and three Dolphin type submarines from Germany. The channel claimed that the submarine deal become negotiated by means of leading Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his legal professional, David Shimron, in a way that circumvented the relevant channels.
Channel 10's Raviv Drucker, who has hyperlinks to the brand new Israel Fund through an NGO he centered, referred to that Shimron additionally represents Miki Ganor, who's the representative of the German manufacturer of the submarines in Israel. Drucker also claimed that then-protection Minister Moshe Yaalon objected to the offers.
The NSA mentioned it became responding to "a wave of false reviews" on the rely.
The ships have been purchased "in knowledgeable and orderly way, with out a exterior have an effect on," it noted. "As a part of the preparations for the protection of the gasoline fields and installations, the govt decided to purchase four field ships. The decision was reached following the recommendation of the protection establishment, the NSA and the international Ministry. throughout the examination, a number of options for procuring the ships were regarded, in view of the operational needs raised via the IDF and protection establishment. on the conclusion of the professional examination, it become decided – in response to diplomatic, operational, technological and budgetary considerations, to perform the purchase in an settlement between the governments of Israel and Germany."
The NSA said that then-protection Minister Moshe Yaalon become within the loop, opposite to the media studies. The resolution become also supported, added the agency, through then-international Minister Avigdor Liberman and with the aid of the Finance Ministry.
The submarines have been additionally bought "with the strategies of all skilled facets in the DoD, IDF and NSA, as is shown in numerous files and in many discussions."
The NSA denied the media claims that there become an choice for procuring the submarines from a different supply. They cited that Israel additionally got a grant in lots of of hundreds of thousands of euro from the German govt as part of the deal.
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