{"id":1971,"date":"2006-11-22T00:09:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T22:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/22\/ou-source-pm-office-tries-to-shakedown-ou-for-additional-security-costs-for-olmert-speech\/"},"modified":"2006-11-22T09:52:52","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T07:52:52","slug":"ou-source-pm-office-tries-to-shakedown-ou-for-additional-security-costs-for-olmert-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/22\/ou-source-pm-office-tries-to-shakedown-ou-for-additional-security-costs-for-olmert-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"OU Source: PM Office Tries to Shakedown OU for Additional Security Costs for Olmert Speech&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><strong>OU Source: PM Office Tries to Shakedown OU for Additional Security Costs for Olmert Speech<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p>       <center>By Moshe Burt<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>For context,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/21\/ehud-olmert-treif-and-not-worthy-of-honor-by-religious-jews\/\"><strong>click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is an exclusive scoop.<\/p>\n<p>An annonymous OU source in a position to know has disclosed that the Prime Minister&#8217;s office contacted OU President Steve Savitsky today demanding that the Orthodox Union foot an additional $5,000 bill for additional security for Prime Minister&#8217;s speech on Wednesday night at the OU Convention in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>This author is told that it is standard procedure when the Prime Minister is asked to speak to a foreign convention in Israel, that the organization foots the security bill, normally some USD 15,000.<\/p>\n<p>But the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office contacted Savitsky today demanding that additional security be provided by a private security agency which turns out to be connected with someone in the Prime Minister&#8217;s office. <\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing this demand, according to the annonymous OU source, Savitsky told the caller from the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office that the Prime Minister has been uninvited, that the OU will not be shaken down.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly thereafter, Savitsky received another call from the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office saying that the additional security is not necessary and that the standard security is sufficient.  Therefore, the Prime Minister&#8217;s speech goes on as scheduled on Wednesday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OU Source: PM Office Tries to Shakedown OU for Additional Security Costs for Olmert Speech By Moshe Burt For context, click here. This is an exclusive scoop. An annonymous OU source in a position to know has disclosed that the Prime Minister&#8217;s office contacted OU President Steve Savitsky today demanding that the Orthodox Union foot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}