""My stomach turned": The conversation that caused Saada not to join Ayelet Shaked

September 18, 2022   

Attorney Moshe Saada, former deputy head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, commented, in an interview he gave to Ayela Hasson on Channel 13's "Central Headquarters," on his joining the Likud list - and explained why he decided not to join Ayelet Shaked. Free emergency hotline: Evacuation of the deceased and everything you need to know about burial ""What guided me was to be part of a right-wing government led by Netanyahu, to expose the failures in the judicial system and to be in a place of fundamental change. In the end, I realized that the place that suits me is the Likud," he said. He revealed that what made him refuse the offer from Ayelet Shaked was a conversation he had with Herzl and Meirav Hajjaj, the parents of Deputy Shir Hajjaj, who was murdered in a terrorist attack on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade in Jerusalem in 2017. "The Hajjaj family asked to come to me. When the mother Meirav told me the story and how Ayelet Shaked tricked her and said she wasn't going to sit with Ra'am - my stomach turned. When the conversation ended, I said I wasn't going with her. I decided I wasn't going with Shaked, I informed them and closed with the Likud." He added: "Shaked doesn't pass and anyone who votes for her is burning votes. Voting for Shaked is equal to voting for Lapid and a joint vote." Hours after Netanyahu's announcement of Saada's armoring, Jewish Home Party list chairman Yossi Rodney said in an interview on the Be'er Sheva network that Saada had ultimately decided not to enter the political system.