Yesh Atid-Telem MK Elazar Stern says the planned appointment of former far-right lawmaker Effi Eitam to head the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial is an attempt to turn the museum into “a Likud branch.”
Stern tweets: “It seems Netanyahu has forgotten what Yad Vashem represents, and has decided to turn it into another public institution that should be dismantled, with a Likud branch established in its stead.
“There is no issue under greater consensus among Israelis and the Jewish people as the Holocaust, and it’s a shame that it too is being turned into a job ‘quarry’ by Netanyahu for his people.”
Chairman of the Afek oil drilling company, Effi Eitam, seen at the Supreme Court during a hearing on oil searching in the Golan Heights, on December 23, 2014 in Jerusalem. (Flash90)
Higher Education Minister Ze’ev Elkin, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, selected Eitam for the post, the Haaretz daily has reported. An Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the appointment, which has not been made public, said Netanyahu supports his candidacy.
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