Another new party is joining the race for the upcoming Knesset election, headed by retired IDF Brigadier-General Gal Hirsch, called the Magen Yisrael party.
According to a report by journalist Chaim Levinson in Haaretz, Gal Hirsch on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, registered a new party with the Registrar of Parties in the Ministry of Justice, which will be called Magen Israel.
Hirsch gained public sympathy after Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan appointed him as the next police commissioner, but due to an investigation against him, his appointment was thwarted and he dropped out of the race and the appointment went to current commissioner, Roni Alshich.
Hirsch’s party joins the new parties, which have been established since the prime minister declared elections, among them the Chosen Yisrael headed by former IDF Chief Benny Gantz, Telem headed by former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Gesher headed by Orli Levy-Abekasis, the New Right party by Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, Achi Yisraeli headed by Rebitzen Adina Bar Shalom and the Protest Movement headed by Eldad Yaniv, along with some others.
It should be noted that since the announcement of early elections, there have been calls to secure a guaranteed slot for Hirsh on the Likud list as well as other lists. It is not clear why Hirsch decided to establish his own party, as it is unclear whether he will succeed in passing the electoral threshold independently.
Gal Hirsh’s friends, who are behind the establishment of the party, told BeChadrei Chareidim that “we are proposing to everyone to join a rightist, Zionist and ideological man”.
Supports of Hirsch remind the public of Hirsch’s illustrious past, and that he became the ‘fall guy‘ in the Second Lebanon War, as clearly, there were persons who were determined to block the future of the highly-decorate combat officer and rising star, who was in line to become the IDF chief of staff.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Just what we need. Another bored ex-general looking for something to do. Generals are made to give orders and punish those who disobey. They make the worst politicians and even worse rulers. One of the primary reasons Israeli politics is so chaotic is the system is infested with ex-generals. Each one is an island of egomania unable to accept the opinion of anyone else.