The Management Board of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) elected Gabi Serussi as chairman, despite the indisputable fact that he didn’t undergo the initial trial of the Committee for Przegląd Senior Government Companies, headed by retired judge Shulumit Dopan.
Earlier, the former minister and ambassador of the UN Gilad Erdan announced at the meeting of the Council of Directors of IAI that he was freezing his candidacy for the position of chairman of the company for 3 months.
After the Committee on the Office of Government Office, he decided to not approve the candidacy of Gabi Serussi, a candidate promoted by the Minister of Defense of Israel Katz, and Serussi decided to not take part in the initial selection process, Erdan offered the management that Seroussi must be obliged to present the forms of the committee. However, the council voted against this proposal. Erdan then announced that he temporarily withdraw his candidacy, because “considerations are not the good of the company, but foreign, political considerations.”
Serussi has a majority in its favor for the IAI Council. Employee representatives, Eliyahu Ederi and Adi Raviv as well as external directors Hava Shechter and Adi Bershadsky, who would end their conditions before Serussi, voted for him.
Voting in favor of Serussi appears despite the “globes” exhibition this morning that Serussi competed for the position of CEO IAI in 2018, and the commission led by the then chairman of IAI, Harel Locker, disqualified his candidacy.
This morning, as mentioned, the authority of government corporations informed the advice of IAI that Serussi’s candidacy wouldn’t be approved by the Dopan Committee. The office stated that “the length of the candidate’s term of office can be extended for the third term only in exceptional cases and due to special reasons; On this day, the position of ministers regarding this Smatter was not received. “
IAI has been lively and not using a everlasting chairman from November. Before he was replaced by Israel Katz, the previous defense minister, Yoav Gallant, agreed with the minister chargeable for the power of government corporations, David Amsalem, to appoint Gilad Erdan as chairman. The decision was made in consultation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Erdan’s nomination as director of IAI took place before the change of defense ministers. Since then, nonetheless, Katz firmly refused to appoint Erdan as a position that he would give him a security, in the struggle for power, anticipating “the day after Netanyahu” in the Likud party.
Published by Globes, Israel Business News – EN.GLOBES.CO.IL – March 12, 2025.
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