Bari Bar-Zion files NIS 4 million suit against the oligarch for "failing to meet his commitments."
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICHarkadi gaydamak 88 224(photo credit: ar)
Bari Bar-Zion, the former director-general of Jerusalem's Bikur Holim Hospital who saved it from bankruptcy and had it running in the black before it was sold to billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak, filed an NIS 4 million suit in the Jerusalem Labor Court against the oligarch on Tuesday for "failing to meet his commitments."
Bar-Zion, a Harvard University-trained economist who previously worked in the Treasury, was appointed director-general of the hospital in April 2004 and left in May of this year. He told The Jerusalem Post that Gaydamak had said he was impressed by his management achievements and offered him NIS 140,000 a month in salary plus a bonus of one percent of the hospital's income if he stayed on. But Bar-Zion soon found that "Gaydamak did not carry out what he had agreed orally and in a written contract."
The former hospital director-general was replaced, officially on a temporary basis, by the medical director that BarZion himself appointed, gynecologist Dr. Raphael Pollack, who continues as its medical director.
Bar-Zion asked the labor court for a lien worth NIS 4m. to be placed on Gaydamak's assets; the court said it would invite both sides in before it decided. The NIS 4m., said the plaintiff, represents his unpaid salary, bonus, harm to his good name and suffering. No comment was forthcoming from Gaydamak's office.
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