Border Guard evacuates Neve Dekalim
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Police get ‘evacuation bonus’
Senior police officers who took part in recent pullout rewarded with trips abroad
It pays to evacuate: Senior police officers who took part in the recent Gaza Strip and northern West Bank pullout are being rewarded with trips overseas at the police’s expanse, Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.
However, the flights are being characterized as “business trips” as not to draw attention, the paper reported.
Internal Security Minister Gideon Ezra will be leaving for a trip to Hungary Thursday and will be joined by Border Guard northern commander Amos Yaakov, who was in charge of evacuating some of the toughest sites, such as the synagogue in the former Gaza settlement of Neve Dekalim.
Several weeks ago, Police Chief Moshe Karadi traveled to Germany for the annual Interpol convention and took along with him two senior police commanders who also participated in the pullout.
Going to China
In another two weeks, a large police delegation will be heading to China, a country whose police force is vastly different than Israel’s. For that trip, too, the police will send several senior officers who took part in the disengagement.
Police officials are limited in the rewards they can grant officers, so it appears overseas trips are one of the ways to show senior officers the police’s appreciation for their role in facilitating the pullout.
Addressing the China trip, police officials characterized it as an exchange, and said Police Chief Karadai was initially invited, but since he cannot attend, other officers will go in his place.
