Waldman backs Eisenkot and warns about Netanyahu — Jerusalem Post
In Israel, Mellanox Technologies founder Eyal Waldman backed Yashar party leader and former Israel Defense Forces Chief of the General Staff Gadi Eisenkot ahead of the upcoming elections. He said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s victory could, in his view, have serious political and economic consequences for the country.
Waldman said this in an interview with Maariv, the Jerusalem Post reports. According to the entrepreneur, if Netanyahu wins, Israel could be left without a properly functioning police force and Supreme Court, and also risks ceasing to be a democracy.
Waldman also predicts that more qualified specialists will leave the country and that the state of the economy will deteriorate. He expressed these assessments as his personal opinion on the possible consequences of the elections.
Support for Eisenkot
The entrepreneur expressed concern about long-term processes associated with part of the settlement movement in the territories and the Haredim, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. In his view, a change of government is necessary to resolve these problems.
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Waldman said he hopes for Eisenkot’s victory, after which, he said, the situation will change. He also said that he had received several offers to enter politics, but not from Netanyahu, Smotrich, Ben-Gvir, Goldknopf, or the Shas party. The entrepreneur added that he could enter politics if he considered it the last way to save the country.
Business and Nvidia
Eyal Waldman founded semiconductor manufacturer Mellanox Technologies, which he sold to Nvidia for $7 billion. He now conducts business through the private investment company Waldo Holdings and, according to his own words, has significant investments in Nvidia shares, some of which he received as part of the Mellanox sale deal.
Waldman said that he now considers the sale of Mellanox the right decision, although initially he did not want to rush into the deal. He also said that Nvidia, led by Jensen Huang, would expand its operations in Israel and build a center in Tivon for 10,000 employees.
