Former protection Minister Moshe Ya'alon validated on Thursday that he antagonistic a deal to purchase four warships and three Dolphin category submarines from Germany, as said by Channel 10 news earlier this week, but flatly denied by the national protection Council.
Ya'alon has announced aspirations to be part of or kind one other political birthday party and vie for the publish of leading minister. He became faraway from his Defence Minister publish by means of Netanyahu for expressing his perception within the guilt of Elor Azariya, accused of shooting a wounded terrorist in Hevron, before the investigation began and for not censuring his deputy, Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, who in comparison Israel to Nazi Germany in a speech on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Ya'alon also referred to as for a probe of the channel's declare that the submarine deal changed into negotiated by prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his legal professional, David Shimron, in a way that circumvented the appropriate channels.
The Channel 10 report pointed out that Shimron also represents Miki Ganor, who's the consultant of the German manufacturer of the submarines in Israel and that the deal was carried out – after Ya'alon changed into replaced as defense Minister by means of Avigdor Liberman – despite the objection of both Ya'alon and the IDF.
"certainly, I vehemently opposed enlarging the submarine fleet of the Navy with three greater submarines. at the time, as a result of operational, organizational and economic factors, the IDF did not want it, nor does it want it in the coming years - and my place become based also on professional and comprehensive research performed via the IDF and the Ministry of defense," Ya'alon wrote on facebook.
"I do not know what became finished and what become signed after I left the Ministry of protection, but Raviv Drucker's publications on the subject are very disturbing, and require a comprehensive examination by using the valuable parties," he persevered.
"the outline of the sequence of routine described with the aid of the countrywide security Council is missing and doesn't replicate reality because it is," insisted the previous protection Minister.
The national safety Council has stressed out in line with the Channel 10 report that the ships had been bought "in knowledgeable and orderly method, and not using a exterior have an effect on." It also spoke of that Ya'alon changed into stored within the loop concerning the buy and that he agreed to it.
