The managing director of Koor, the Histadrut’s industrial concern and the largest industrial enterprise in the country, resigned Wednesday following a dispute with the labor federation’s secretary-general, Yisrael Kessar.
Yeshayahu Gavish, who headed Koor for eighteen years, accused Kessar and the Histadrut leadership of undermining his efforts to bring about an economic recovery of the concern, whose 1987 balance sheet is expected to show an unprecedented $100 million loss for the year.
Observers in the labor federation and the industrial sector were surprised by the resignation.
They expect Kessar to name Benny Gaon, head of the Histadrut’s cooperative supermarket chain, to replace Gavish.
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