Eisenkot attacks Netanyahu's digital finance plan

Gadi Eisenkot, chairman of the Yashar party, accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of endangering 150 billion shekels of national savings through his push for digital finance mechanisms. The opposition leader released a campaign video on Saturday that frames the prime minister's recent comments as an admission of economic failure.

The video opens with the warning that all money is at risk. It features clips from a Channel 10 interview in which Netanyahu stated that Israel must prepare for an alternative economy due to mounting international sanctions. In that interview, the prime minister acknowledged that digital finance would certainly be part of the strategy and noted that he had already requested a plan for its implementation.

Eisenkot's team labeled the proposed system Bibicoin. The video argues that such a mechanism would destroy the Israeli economy. It compares the potential outcome to the economies of North Korea and Iran, predicting the end of the high tech sector, healthcare, and security.

The ad questions how global high tech investors would place capital into Israeli companies if digital currency became the only method of transaction. It urges viewers to prevent Netanyahu from burning through national savings. A separate post on X by Eisenkot adopts a more personal tone, stating that the prime minister admits his policy leads to international isolation and sanctions that will shake the market.

Eisenkot wrote that this trajectory represents the collapse of national security. The former IDF chief of staff uses Netanyahu's own words from the interview to build the case that the current leadership is steering the country toward economic collapse.

The exchange places the prime minister's economic contingency planning at the center of the political debate. Eisenkot positions the digital finance proposal as a pivot away from traditional financial stability toward a volatile digital alternative.

Netanyahu's office has not yet responded to the specific accusations in the video. The prime minister previously defended the need for alternative mechanisms to insulate the economy from external pressures.