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MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni Challenges Firing of Population Administration Head
by Eliezer Rauchberger

"I demand to know whether Herzl Gedj did his job faithfully. As head of the Population Administration, was his work done properly according to the Administration? Did he act according to the policy and the laws in place in the State of Israel?" asked MK Rabbi Gafni during a plenum on the issue of Interior Minister Avraham Poraz' dismissal of the director of the Population Administration from his post.

Rabbi Gafni criticized Poraz for allegedly deciding to remove Gedj from his job solely because he refused to list goyim as Jews, acting in accordance with the law and government policy. "I inquired before submitting the motion for order and I found that in terms of proper management and ability there is no doubt that the man really did do very important and very great things in the ministry. And the proof is he was not fired, but transferred to another job in the district. That means you, too, agree the man was fine. So what is the meaning of the fact you removed him from the position of head of the Population Administration? Did the man not follow the policy as determined by the government?"

Turning to the Interior Minister he pointed out that if he wants to change the rules on the matter of listing Jews at the Interior Ministry, he must go to the government and ask to amend the law. "You can change regulation and this is within your authority," said Rabbi Gafni. "But what you are doing is to convey a message that you don't like the man on the issue of listing goyim or matters of this kind and you say, `I'm taking the easy route. Rather than bringing some decision to the government, rather than bringing an amendment to the Knesset, I'll simply replace the person. I'll bring in a person who will act according to the spirit of things as I would like to see them.' This is a grave evasion of the regulations and it is not appropriate in a democratic government."

MK Yitzchak Cohen (Shas) said Gedj was dismissed from his post "because he did not want to carry out the policy of the Interior Minister from Shinui, who wants to inundate the State of Israel with goyim. This blending of Jews and goyim is a top priority for Interior Minister Poraz of Shinui, based on the school of thought of Tomislav Lampel, commonly known as Tommy Lapid."

Interior Minister Poraz claims Gedj was not dismissed from his post but that his contract expired and therefore as part of a policy of rotating ranking officials from one position to another, as practiced in the army, he was made in charge of the Northern District, one of the top posts at the Interior Ministry.

 

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