Gantz accuses PM of benefiting from subs purchase, green-lighting sales to Egypt

18 March 2019, 7:33 pm

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Gantz opens his press conference by vowing to establish a parliamentary commission of inquiry into Netanyahu’s ties to the multibillion shekel purchase of submarines from Germany’s Thyssenkrupp, and his alleged green-lighting of sales of some advanced naval weaponry to Egypt.

According to Channel 13, the State Comptroller’s Office recently discovered that Netanyahu and his cousin Nathan Milikowsky were shareholders in a graphite electrodes manufacturing company GrafTech International, which is used in the production of steel. The firm is a longtime supplier of Thyssenkrupp, the Channel 13 report said.

“I tell you that we will establish a parliamentary inquiry to investigate it,” says Gantz, accusing the prime minister of personally earning NIS 16 million from Israel’s purchase of the submarines.

“Security is my profession. We will know to bring security back to Israel,” says Gantz. “Some of the people who run Israel’s security do it for good reasons, not for money or personal.”

“This week it was also revealed that the PM approved selling advanced submarines to Egypt. The prime minister denied it, he denied and lied,” he says.

— With Raoul Wootliff