Is Benny Gantz A Clueless Mr. Clean?
Dr. Aaron Lerner 23 November, 2019

In August 2016 Benny Gantz, an owner and chairman of Fifth Dimension,
participated in THE meeting with the Israel Police in which the decision was
made to pay the company NIS 4 million for their system without a tender.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-comptroller-gantzs-startup-given-exemption-in-police-tender-1001279953

The justification for waiving the tender requirement:

#1. That Fifth Dimension already had five customers.

[They had NONE.]

#2. That Fifth Dimension already had a product.

[They DIDN'T]

#3. That Fifth Dimension was already in existence for four years.

[Only TWO.]

Now heading the Blue White Party, a key feature of his campaign is that he's
the clean guy in sharp contrast to Netanyahu.

But is he?

There appears to be only one narrative that jibes with Mr. Gantz being a Mr.
Clean, and that is that as an owner and chairman of Fifth Dimension, Benny
Gantz was clueless as to what was going on in his company.

Gantz may have physically attended meetings at Fifth Dimension where it was
decided to lie to the Israel Police but his mind was elsewhere.

DItto for the critical meeting with the Israel Police where Fifth Dimension
convinced Israel Police to waive the tender requirement.

And after the deal was made, Benny Gantz continued in his blissful ignorance
of what had transpired.

Which leads to a curious situation when one considers if Mr. Gantz has the
right stuff to be prime minister of the State of Israel.

Which is worse? A leader who conspired to defraud the Israel Police of NIS
4 million or a leader who was clueless about what was going on at critical
meetings he participated in involving the company he owned and chaired?

In a way the former is preferable. At least in that case one could argue
that Mr. Gantz was so confident that his company would deliver to the Israel
Police their money's worth that he considered the lying a harmless
inconsequential necessity.

Could the nation afford a prime minister who is Mr. Clean because he is Mr.
Clueless?

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