"We will not purchase equipment from those who deny Israel's right to exist," declared last night (Tuesday) Avi Buskila, CEO of Sheral, one of the largest procurement companies in Israel, which supplies medical equipment and medicines to government hospitals.

Buskila wrote the words in a letter he distributed among the directors of the government hospitals, in response to the Turkish boycott of Israel. According to sources in the medical world, the meaning of this decision alone for the Turks is an immediate loss of procurement in tens of millions of shekels, and hundreds of millions of shekels in the longer term.

In the letter, which reached Walla exclusively, Buskila wrote: "In these days of fighting, we were exposed to the fact that the Turkish government and its President Erdogan express uncompromising support for Hamas and their criminal acts. Even worse, in his speech, President Erdogan included harsh statements against Israel's right to exist as a state."

"In view of this, Sharel as an Israeli company considers as part of its commitment not to finance with its resources and the resources of the hospitals, products from a country that these days is becoming hostile to us and challenges our existence," Buskila added and stated: "Accordingly, Sharel decided to act to stop purchasing from Turkey and to find replacement goods of high quality and good prices elsewhere".

Source: Walla (Israel)