MK Yasmin Sachs Friedman (‘Yesh Atid’) was interviewed this morning (Monday) on Radio North 104.5FM and explained her claim that Prof. Avi Simhon, appointed chairman of the National Economic Council, is a ‘hater of women’, and that his position is against women’s rights .
As mentioned, Simhon’s appointment was accepted in a controversial manner, after a complaint was filed against him by an employee who was subordinate to him, claiming that he made negative statements of a ‘gender’ nature.
At the beginning of the interview, Friedman said: “I have seen throughout history his statements towards women and what he thinks about them. Those who think that women are less intelligent than men, those who think that maternity leave is a problem, that women manage less well than men, so what is he? They do one and another.” .
The member of the Knesset came back and attacked: “He is going to be the ‘big boss’ of all the workers in Israel, among other things, and the thought of what he expressed is very, very disturbing and worrying. True, maybe his professional ‘record’ is really rich and appropriate for the position he was elected to, but His thinking about women, who are more than half of the population in the State of Israel, is something that should bother us.”
Friedman added: “If you add that to the fact that there is almost no female representation in the coalition, out of nine women, six are serving, which means they don’t come to the committees, don’t come to the hearings, are there three women left who are supposed to protect the rights of all of us?”, she noted. , and gave an example of her claims: “Only in the last week in very important discussions there was not a single female representative from the coalition. That is why I am very, very disturbed by another appointment like this and another legislation that harms women and separates women, so we get an overall picture that should bother every woman who sits at home and thinks that it will not reach her “.
In conclusion, she stated: “He may have rich experience and professional knowledge and the knowledge is really very important, but what is the value of this professional knowledge if there is going to be harm to women? I really want to hope that there will be no harm, which is not some kind of trend in this government and in the government ministries in general. Look, there are no female CEOs, after we had ten CEOs in the previous government. There is a very, very worrying trend here, along with the legislation of more modest clothing, of segregation, in my eyes segregation is exclusion. That’s why one and one and one and one, we become To be very disturbed by what is happening around us, to be vigilant and fight for our rights, no one will do it for us, it turns out.”