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Pressed by Motorola, Defense Ministry halts 5G tender process
Motorola Solutions seeks to continue as sole mobile telephony supplier to the IDF in a NIS 1.5 billion proposal.
Motorola Solutions versus the Ministry of Defense and the IDF: After the Ministry of Defense decided to publish a request for information (RFI) in advance of a tender for setting up a 5G mobile network for the IDF, Motorola approached the ministry and demanded that the RFI should be withdrawn. It was withdrawn within a short time.
The IDF Teleprocessing Corps had been working intensively for months on the RFI. Motorola, which provides the IDF s 4G network, brought heavy pressure to bear on the IDF to continue with it as a sole supplier. Motorola set out to recruit support for its proposal. It hosted senior Teleprocessing Corps officers at its offices and hired various consultants to use their connections with senior IDF personnel. One of them was Maj. Gen. (res.) Sami Turgeman, who held a meeting on the matte
Itzik Benbenisti steps down as Partner CEO After I have accomplished the missions I set for myself, it is time for a new path.
Isaac (Itzik) Benbenisti is stepping down as CEO of Partner Communications Ltd. (Nasdaq: PTNR; TASE: PTNR) afte six years in the role. It is as yet unclear what led him to resign and where he will go next. Under his leadership, Partner underwent a transformation from a company mainly focused on mobile telephony to a telecommunications group offering, besides telephony, Internet infrastructure and television.
What will happen now? The company s board of directors will appoint a search committee for a replacement, and it will presumably consider both internal and external candidates. Number two in Partner s management hierarchy is deputy CEO Yuval Keinan, and he sees himself as a candidate for the top job. CFO Tamir Amar and VP sales Yakov Truzman can also be expected to compete.