The company also publishes literature through its subsidiary, Keter Publishing House, and provides management, production and marketing services to the Ma’ariv Library, the publishing arm of one of Israel’s largest daily newspapers. Recently Keter merged with the Steimatsky Group, one of Israel’s largest retail bookstore chains.
Reshef is clearly a successful businessman and has done wonders with his family’s firm, not only in western Jerusalem but elsewhere in the capital as well.
Including in Gilo and French Hill.
“Just a few hundred meters from Givat HaMatos,” Dayan pointed out with some irony.
“There is no difference between the two. They are two different adjacent neighborhoods in the south of Jerusalem – exactly what he attacked” during the debate last week.
Moreover, “To criticize the government of Israel while making a profit on the very property you attack is political hypocrisy,” Dayan charged. “Reshef denies that he has assets in Gilo now, but even if so, then the firm sold them and still made a profit, from which he derives benefit. And to this very second, the Arledan website in both Hebrew and English promotes construction projects in Gilo.”
“It is political hypocrisy to sabotage the visit of an Israeli prime minister just minutes before he is to meet with the president of the United States to discuss weighty matters such as the nuclear threat in Iran, by leaking old news about a Jerusalem neighborhood when you yourself invest in the same. It’s abhorrent conduct in my view,” Dayan said.
“I equate it to the price tag hooligans who slash the tires of IDF officers – it is virtually slashing the tires of the prime minister while he is on his way to the White House.”
Perhaps Peace Now executive director Yariv Oppenheimer should clarify with Peace Now co-founder Tzali Reshef as to exactly when Jerusalem housing construction over the “Green Line” is politically sensitive, and when it’s not.