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The founder and general director of the “New Guard” organization, Yoel Zilberman, warned against “Israel’s strangling” of the crime sector and the mafia, based on a study conducted by his organization, in which it was found that the war between crime organizations “not only harms Israel and its citizens, but also financially drains the pockets of Israelis.” He added, during an interview conducted with him in the “Israel Hayom” newspaper forum on Sunday, that “we are all looking at the elections, and we realize that there is a crucial point that is absent from the public discourse surrounding it,” in reference to the decline of the “fighting crime” discourse. Zilberman, who runs an organization that includes tens of thousands of Israeli volunteers, and is governmentally supported by various ministries, all the way to weapons companies such as “Albit Systems,” considered that Israel “now exists at a completely different point, and a different stage of the war against Lebanon, Iran, and Gaza,” in contrast to what prevailed four years ago during the previous Knesset elections, when personal security was the focus of the discourse against the backdrop of the growing crime that the organization, as well as the Israeli political level, linked to confrontations and armed clashes between The 1948 Palestinians and the occupation police during the “Sword of Jerusalem” (Gift of Dignity) in 2021 and the following year. He added, “It seemed at the time that the crime organizations would end quickly, but today it has become clear that they have become a thousand times more dangerous and larger. Therefore, expectations were very high… and by the way, even the criminals themselves had expectations that they would be dealt with,” in an implicit claim that if Naftali Bennett’s government had not been dissolved, and the war had not broken out later, the occupation police – accused of inaction and collusion with crime organizations inside the country – would have rushed to eliminate crime, in parallel with the implementation of a plan drawn up at the time. To establish what was known as the “National Guard,” which was to be based primarily on “New Guard” volunteers, within the framework of combating weapons directed primarily at the Israeli institution and its symbols, and not the murder weapon directed against the Palestinians inside. But contrary to expectations, it turned out, according to the study conducted by his organization, that during the last four years, six industries managed by the crime sector in Israel have grown; Starting with the theft of water, then the theft of electricity, then the theft of fuel, including aviation fuel, and after that, the establishment and management of 4,000 greenhouses to grow drugs within areas prepared for military training and belonging to the occupation army, an industry whose value is estimated, according to Zilberman, at five billion shekels. Responsibility for all these sectors is attributed to organized crime families at home. Then comes the arms trade, where the organized crime sector obtains its means of combat and its weapons – in which Palestinians kill each other – from the occupation army camps, which Zilberman considered a “national danger,” referring to the possibility of the 1948 Palestinians using this weapon for self-defense against Israeli attacks, similar to the “Gift of Dignity.” Leading to a very huge industry based on financial extortion (fraud/royalties under the pretext of providing protection). For every “road project built in Israel, construction companies pay hard money,” according to Zilberman. Zilberman revealed that Israel “has begun to include the costs of fraud in all its government tenders.” According to the study’s calculations, it was found that each Israeli family directly pays at least 8,000 shekels annually to these organizations. Zilberman went further, concluding by saying that “in Israel there is the advanced technology industry, the security industry, and Israeli industries in general, and the crime sector is considered one of the five largest industries in the country.” Against the backdrop of the warning issued by Zilberman, which appears on the surface to be an “innocent” call to fight crime among the Palestinians of the 1948s, who had their throats cut demanding this, Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed stops at important stations in the life of this man and the organization at the head of which he stands, based on an appendix published by the newspaper “Haaretz” in May of 2022; Based on the coincidence of his warning with the political scene taking shape three months away from the Knesset elections, in which the ruling coalition camp is likely to lose against the opposition camp that includes Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid and Gadi Eisenkot, which may revive the “National Guard” project, Bennett’s legacy. From the guard of his father’s farm to the leader of the “new guard.” Years ago, in the “Tzibori” settlement built on the lands of the displaced village of Saffuriyya (Nazareth District), Father Zilberman warned his son Yoel of his intention to close his farm, after it was subjected, according to his description, to “agricultural terrorism” through sabotage, poisoning of its livestock, and setting fires that consumed two-thirds of its land. However, Yoel, who spent years in the elite “Shayetet” naval unit in the occupation army, has since decided to replace the Israeli authorities who “ignored his father’s call,” after they closed more than two hundred complaints he filed against “vandals” (Palestinians from the villages located next to Nazareth) who destroyed his farm, as he said in an interview conducted with him by the newspaper “Haaretz” in 2022, within an appendix in which it provided details of the establishment of the organization, which it described as the largest militia in the country. Israel. Zilberman Jr. then decided to ascend a hill overlooking his father’s farm, and set up an Avam tent there, hanging an Israeli flag and a lamp at its entrance to guard the farm. Inside the tent, he carefully read the legacy of the second Israeli president, Yitzhak Ben Zvi, and an elite group of “Hebrew Work” theorists, such as Aaron David Gordon, Zvi Ben Shushan, Joseph Vitkin, and others, to finally formulate the ideology that will govern the “new guard,” based on the conviction that “the Jews’ connection to the land and nature will save them from the distortion caused to them by exile.” Earlier, Zilberman’s circumstances had intersected with those of his comrade On Reifman, a descendant of the Revivim settlement, whose biography is similar to Zilberman’s; As the last of the third generation of a family of pioneer settlers, she worked in farming the land she occupied and established the “Tzipore” settlement on its ruins, before sending her son to the “Ma’yan Baruch – Midrash” school (a preparatory Biblical school), in the “Ein Furat” settlement. As for Reifman, he worked his way through the same military preparatory school and served five and a half years as an officer in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit in the occupation army. In the same newspaper supplement, Reifman – whose father headed the Ramat Negev Council (in the Negev) from the 1990s until 2017 – narrated that “I was returning home one time, and suddenly I saw a barn on fire. The reason was because a Bedouin (Palestinian) family in the village of Bir Hadag, near Kibbutz Ramat Negev, had been ordered to evacuate their home. They took revenge by burning the barn, resulting in losses that reached Half a million shekels. I then wondered: Is it possible that the state is not present here? The above shows the intertwined path of the two comrades, which brought them back together again the day the settler farmer Shai Dromi, in 2007, opened fire on Palestinians who entered his farm in the Negev, killing the young man Khaled Al-Atrash. Then Reifman, who works as a lawyer, defended Dromi, and succeeded in getting the Israeli court to acquit him of Al-Atrash’s blood, while Zilberman, on the other hand, was waging a field struggle and protests with others to support Dromi, which ended with the enactment of a law known as “Dromy’s Law”, according to which anyone who is exposed to an attempt to “sabotage” or steal his land is allowed to defend himself, and to injure and kill the “aggressors”, without bearing any responsibility. No criminal liability for his crime. As for Dromi himself, he later played a prominent role in the Praver Law, which called for the displacement and uprooting of more than 40 Palestinian villages in the Negev. The Dromi case was the point where the paths of Reifman and Zilberman crossed again, when the founder of the Maayan Baruch preparatory school, where they studied, Erez Eshel, linked them together. The three of them created the “New Guard” in 2007, which, within a few years, had tens of thousands of volunteers. Although those in charge of the organization claim that the Israeli authorities have abandoned their role in guarding the land and protecting Jewish farmers, 40 Israeli and Western official bodies support the organization financially, including Israeli ministries, such as security, knowledge (education), agriculture and village development, construction and housing, media and diaspora, and heritage, passing through the “Jewish National Fund,” the “Elbit Systems” company for military industries, the Nature and Parks Authority, all the way to the “Jewish National Fund.” Foundation” and others, as appears on its website. As for the CEO and former president of Elbit, Yossi Ackerman, he headed the organization for a period, and it was also funded by Shilo Holav, the founder of NSO, the owner of the Pegasus offensive spyware scandal, and he was also a member of its board. The launch of the “New Guard” The first official meeting of the “New Guard” organization was held in the Galilee in 2008, in response to the commemoration of the Palestinian “Land Day.” It was attended by Meir Hartson, known as the modern “Shimon Bar Kochba,” who killed four Palestinians from the Rashadieh clan in the Negev during the 1950s, and made the fifth of them witness the massacre to tell his family what happened, in retaliation for the killing of his sister Shoshana and her companion. At that meeting, Zilberman told the audience: “The Arabs are just waiting for us to tell them that these lands are ours, as they have not yet understood this matter.” Since then, the project came to light, with generous support provided by the godfather of settlement in Jerusalem, Irving Moskowitz, in parallel with the Central Fund of Israel opening the tap of money that was also flowing to the funds of extremist Zionist organizations, such as “Honino,” “The Jewish Yishuv of Hebron,” and “Im Tirtzu.” In addition, the “New Guard” received donations and support from numerous religious Zionist organizations that embrace the ideology of Rabbi Meir Kahane and seek to build the “Third Temple.” Since the founding of the organization, and during the years that followed, the “guards” would come with their weapons to settler farms to guard them, and organize protest marches against the Palestinians inside, some of which ended in violent confrontations. Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was one of the members of a committee in the organization that included extremist right-wing figures, and when he became Minister of Economy, he appeared wearing a T-shirt bearing its logo. He also personally supervised, in his capacity as Minister of Education, the activities of the organization. Moreover, in 2012, the Zionist Aryeh King, who in 2022 served as Deputy Mayor of the Occupation Municipality in Jerusalem, participated in the “Arbor Day” event by planting trees in the Galilee alongside the organization’s activists. He stated at the time, in an interview conducted with him by “Channel Seven,” that the “New Guard” represented “reinforced forces prepared to work during the outbreak of confrontations with the Arab population (interior Palestinians) in the Galilee.” While the New Guard denies its presence in the West Bank, there have been many testimonies and testimonies about the presence of its members in settlement outposts to protect them from the Palestinians. In addition, members of the “New Guard” came, at the beginning of 2022, to the lands of the Naqa region in the Negev to implement a molestation plan that required the confiscation of the lands of five Palestinian Bedouin villages, the first of which was Sa’wa-Al-Atrash, which led to violent protests led by the Palestinians in the south, which led to the plan being frozen. Before that, the organization’s members responded to the call of the Israeli police, who were unable to defend the settlers of Lydda during the “Grant of Dignity” in 2021, as they participated in defending the security of the city’s Jews, and guarded the apartments from which they fled. They also established a field room to manage the work of “volunteers” in coordination with the Israeli security services, and they worked in monitoring and monitoring the movements of the Palestinian youth who rose in protest against the attempts to confiscate the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, and in rejection of the attacks on Jerusalem. And Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to defend their presence, following the martyrdom of Musa Hassouna, son of Lod, by settlers’ bullets. From the “New Guard” to the “National Guard” project Since 2014, and during Gilad Erdan’s term in the Ministry of Internal Security, the “Guard” unit was established within the “Border Guard,” and its members were recruited from the “New Guard.” As the latter explains on its website, its areas of operation extend in the north, the lower Galilee, the Golan Heights, and the Negev in the south. Its tasks are to conduct secret and public patrols, set up ambushes, monitor and reconnaissance using night vision means, set up barriers, inspect vehicles and suspicious persons, and arrest “illegal infiltrators,” including Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza who have not obtained entry permits from the occupation, in addition to assisting Antiquities Authority observers and preventing trafficking in antiquities, and assisting the Nature and Parks Authority in confronting illegal hunting. The presence and spread of the organization’s members in the 48 regions, whether within the “border guards” or among farmers, enabled it to predict the “Gift of Dignity” before it erupted. At the beginning of its call on the Israelis to join the “National Guard” project, which Naftali Bennett announced would be launched in 2022, and that the “New Guard” would be the reservoir that would supply the project with human resources, the organization stated that in January 2021, it “warned the Minister of Internal Security that the outbreak of the field (in the 48 regions) would not be far away, but rather in the foreseeable future.” Four months after this warning, which she said was dismissed by the Minister of Security, the uprising broke out. The same organization had proposed to then-Minister Amir Ohna the establishment of a project such as the “National Guard.” Since the launch of the project during Bennett’s government, the organization has mobilized to recruit volunteers for it, developing a plan extending over two years, according to which it will establish five reserve units within the army, each of which includes a thousand former fighters. They will commit to completing 18 days of training and attending during national emergencies. They will be recruited through the “New Guard”, before being absorbed by the “Border Guard” unit through which the “National Guard” will operate. It is noteworthy that at the time, the organization developed a plan stipulating that, by 2030, the number of volunteers was supposed to reach 12,000 fighters. In practice, Bennett’s return to the political scene, and the increased possibilities that he will be at the head of the next government, revive the hopes of the “new guard” to re-establish the “National Guard.” This is the project that Bennett presented, before his resignation, as a plan to combat criminal crime among internal Palestinians on the surface, while in essence it is a project specifically prepared to fight Palestinians who may decide to defend themselves in the face of Israeli bullying.
