Today, Friday, an Israeli report revealed billions of looting and embezzlement within the Israeli army from the public treasury of Israel.
According to the economic newspaper “The Marker”, the high command of the Israeli army and its giant lobby department are preparing to confront the most important front for them: “Retroactive laundering of tens of billions of shekels that the Israeli army stole from the treasury, legitimizing a path around retirement, and also allowing money to be granted. for future military retirees.
The newspaper´s editor-in-chief, Guy Rolnik, stressed that "Army Minister Benny Gantz , a former army chief of staff, does not see citizens or their children from a distance of a meter. Despite the huge increases in the security budget that he received thanks to high state tax revenues, Gantz has advantages." It is clear that he prefers to give any shekel he takes from the taxpayer to senior officers in permanent service, to IDF retirees, to those sitting in offices, to the residents of Kiriya (the headquarters of the Ministry of the Army) and to all the wealthy people connected to the biggest donor in Israel, who resides on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv.
Rolnik pointed out that "the "Net Profit" and "Financial Justice" associations have achieved in recent years the enormous additions that the Israeli army granted to its retirees, before they were released from the army, and the two associations discovered that "this was done in secret, without allocating a special budget, and the most dangerous It was done against the law. The two associations petitioned the Supreme Court to find and stop the theft. The security apparatus applied enormous political pressure to continue looting the state treasury, but in the end a report was leaked to the Ministry of Justice, which confirmed the accuracy of information on the two associations of net profit and financial justice: If you want to continue to pay, you must organize the matter through law.
He added, "In less clean words, money was stolen from the state treasury for the benefit of those close to the Ministry of the Army. The theft is estimated at more than one billion shekels annually."
"The average retirement package in the security budget is 8 million shekels per retiree, which is five times the pension that civilians receive," Rolnik noted.
"The tax authority´s data indicate that the military are the first group in Israel who buy apartments for investment, but it is always possible to prepare for the occupation of another purpose: why not also top those who have two apartments for investment?" In the State of Israel, 1,000 shekels per year.
The Ministry of the Army pays these funds from the addition of a budget of more than one billion shekels annually, known as “the increases of the Chief of the General Staff,” which Rolnik stressed that they were added “in secret and in a lack of transparency for decades, and through concealment and misleading from the Ministry of Finance, to the When the state comptroller discovered it, in 2016.”
These illegal increases were received by 98% of the Israeli army´s retirees, and their amount amounts to about NIS 1.3 billion annually. And it was possible to do this because the manpower division of the army is the only one in all of Israel that does not have a representative of the Ministry of Finance in order to monitor it, and the increases of the Chief of the General Staff are just one incident that was discovered, compared to dozens of others that were not discovered.
Rolnik said that the "mastermind" behind the Israeli army´s looting of the state treasury is the Lobby Department of the Israeli army, which is called the "financial advisor to the Chief of the General Staff" and has been headed for many years by Mehran Brosner. After Prusner was discharged from the army, Klopi worked as a broker for commercial companies seeking budgets from the security service.
This week, as an envoy to the Ministry of the Army, Prusner tried to defend the looting of the state treasury on a radio show, during which he said that these accusations of him are "nonsense, and let´s talk about the facts. If you want quality people and ultimately bring professional production, efficiency and best intelligence. The best improvements have to be paid, there is nothing to be done."
However, the founder and general director of the "Reap Net" association, attorney Nelly Even Hen, assured Rolnik that Prusner´s statement "is misleading. The IDF does just the opposite. The IDF does not award compensation to combat soldiers who sacrifice themselves, nor to cyber developers who leave for the private market yet. Dismissal from regular service.
Rolnik added that contrary to the statements of politicians and reports of journalists and social activists about transferring money from taxpayers to distribute it to officials, people and speculators, it was the result of Netanyahu´s rule for many years. They deceived you. The deceivers are divided into two groups: those who wanted to come to power and those who actually believed this myth. Netanyahu withheld the budget approval for two years to serve his own interests. But the budget approved by the current government is the Siamese twin of all the budgets that Netanyahu was providing in The current situation: raising taxes on the middle class, pumping tens of billions into the security budget and continuing the statistic on all fronts with the Haredim.
