2023-07-11 09:48:46
“I call on the Prime Minister: the ball is in your hand. Where are you taking the State of Israel? What is the legacy you will leave behind? Stop the crazy chaos that exists in Israeli society and as soon as possible,” said Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David at a conference this morning (Tuesday) Heads of committees in the Tel Aviv-Yafo area.
“Don’t let the extremists from all sides take over our lives,” continued Bar-David, “my red line, which we crossed last March, is the committee for selecting judges. And we succeeded in that. I check the situation every day with my team. When will the Histadrut activate its power? When I decide that a decision needs to be made. If someone thinks that every Monday and Thursday I will shut down the economy because someone votes in the first reading in the Knesset – they don’t know what the Histadrut is. Shutting down an economy is not child’s play. You close an airport at a time like this, when people have saved a shekel to a shekel to to go to Greece”.
According to him, we are now in a complex period in the history of the people of Israel. “In the four and a half years that I have been in office, there is not a single day of silence. The corona virus is over, there is a war, a military operation, five elections, the cost of living and now the legal revolution, which should not have come to this situation. And we the workers, in the middle. They are rivals in the Knesset, blowing up conversations In the president’s house – and whoever is standing in the middle is the people of Israel and we, the Histadrut,” said the chairman of the Histadrut.
“The Histadrut is the strongest and most influential body, and most importantly: one of the only non-political bodies in the State of Israel. And this is my decision. For many years, the Histadrut was identified with one party, and I took the Histadrut to be non-political. That’s why I can play on the whole field. We We unite all the people of Israel, from all parties, from all factions, without differences of religion, race or gender, ultra-Orthodox and secular, Jews and Arabs. I don’t work for anyone – neither in the opposition nor in the coalition.”
“When I feel, and last time I felt in my gut that I have to decide the battle. When I feel that all the heat has been used up and the situation will reach an extreme – we will intervene and use our power.”
Bar-David also said that the attempt to paint the Histadrut in political colors, each time in a different color – “is crazy”. “We are in a complex period in terms of the cost of living, and our first task is to take care of the status of the workers, the livelihood of the workers, the pride of the workers.”
Regarding the political crisis, the chairman of the Histadrut said that he is in contact with all the heads of the parties. I am also worried: about the rift in Israeli society, about the violence, about the lack of tolerance. Everyone became enemies. The left is a curse, Bibist is a curse. So what connects us? Zionism, the state. I see that the State of Israel will continue to be a light to the Gentiles. We are seen from the outside.”
He also said: “There is no chance that workers in the State of Israel will be harmed in the current Knesset.” Referring to the framework agreement: “I sat all night negotiating the framework agreement, and at three o’clock in the morning there were handshakes – and the huge, big, important framework agreement will be signed next Monday. In a week or two, the assistance agreement will be signed, and we are actually aligning a very serious line professionally. With A full-right right-wing finance minister, we managed to ensure significant salary increases, and no less important, the shortening of the work week, which has been a dream of all Histadrut leaders for generations. The Histadrut will continue to be a shell for workers.”
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