Moshe Kahlon says “so long as our party will be kingmaker we will go with whoever is willing to close social gaps,” insisting that he is not beholden to either PM Netanyahu’s Likud or to any other party.
In a Channel 2 interview where social justice leader Dafni Leef was listening in and allowed to ask Kahlon two questions, the Kulanu leader promises Leef that he will nationalize welfare services that were deregulated in recent years.
Moshe Kahlon speaks at a Tel Aviv pub on Friday, December 5, 2014 (Photo credit: Channel 2 News)
Kahlon rejected Leef’s accusation that as welfare minister he did not fight the deregulation of several services that lie within the purview of the Welfare Ministry. “This was the doing of Isaac Herzog, who was welfare minister before me, though naturally I don’t blame him” since Herzog was carrying the government’s policy at the time, Kahlon says.
“I am on principle against deregulation of institutions which take care of people. Some services, the state must buy them from outside, but not those dealing with people. Wherever we find faults – we will re-nationalize services,” Kahlon says.
Kahlon also says he wants to open new banks and says Netanyahu, Bennet, Lapid and Herzog “all know” there are only three banks in Israel. “The largest bank in the US has 15% of the banking market and there is constant pressure on it to shrink… here there three banks in the entire system,” the finance-minister-hopeful says.
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