Chairman Gal Hirsch of the Magen party has come out against the chairman's of the Central Election Committee's examination of the possibility of rejecting retired general Tal Russo's candidacy to run on the Labor Party list in the April 9th Knesset election.
The retired brigadier general said, "There must not be a situation in which a person's joining the civil service will harm him in the future." He concluded, "It's out of place to disqualify his willingness to serve as a public figure just because he was prepared to serve for a long time in the reserves in an important position."