We are entering the new decade with mixed feelings. Economic prosperity is noteworthy, but lacks a real sense of well-being and calm. There is quite a bit of antagonism and confrontation in the life of the individual in Israeli society.

We are witnessing the process of clerical strengthening to such an extent that we are the citizens in a sense of defeat in the face of every official of the system receiving backing from the legal advisers. At the same time, there is probably loosening of adherence to standards of integrity and cleanliness.

In between, the element of compassion has eroded, and the little citizen is often helpless in the face of the system's trampling. For example, an old woman is thrown out of her house because she didn't pay a mortgage.

On a personal level, the last decade has been a decade of productive creation, during which I published important books and was awarded significant literary awards, most notably the Israel Prize for Literature and Poetry in the year 2015 (2015).

For the past decade, I've published the books "Eyes Landscapes," "The Piano House," and "Signals." My comprehensive work, as expressed in these books, was recognized by the definition of an ethnic "Moroccan poet" and placed me at the center of the Israeli poetic experience in general, and I won the Judah Amichai Prize for Poetry, the Bialik Prize and the Israel Prize.

In 2014, Minister of Education Naftali Bennett approached me and asked me to head the "Concrete Committee", whose mission is to examine the curricula and degree of the heritage, culture and history of Spanish and Eastern Jewry in these programs. I set up a committee of the best academic scholars, which has 100 members on committees and committees. We have spent six months researching and recommending and producing a book whose conclusions have become a future teacher's finger, and some of the recommendations, which do not involve financial spending, have become an organic part of the curriculum.

Overall, there seems to be openness in the process of cultural integration in the country in music, literature and culture. Oriental poets rose as blossoms, and Israeli music in general absorbed and internalized the curling melody and poem.

In contrast to the blessed process of multiculturalism, the situation has been determined in the political sphere, almost complete stagnation. In a comfortable reality for all parties, a process of coexistence is intensifying. Israeli Arabs are becoming an essential part of the Israeli fabric of academia, medicine and business. Much of Judea and Samaria's Arabs are also growing as part of the country's economic life, while the political and security problem remains unsolved.

Over the past decade, great minds like Amos Oz and poets Chaim Guri and Tuvia Rivner have passed away. Even in his last years, Amos Oz did not change the concept that he believed all his life, namely two states for two peoples, David Grossman is also gaining identity in this direction. In contrast, AB Joshua is again unsure of a two-state solution for two peoples, and he sees the process of one-state for two peoples as a viable option.

One of the most prominent phenomena in the last decade has been a frontal assassination between the authorities, especially between the judiciary and the executive branch and the legislative branch. Basic constitutional issues are emerging as extremely problematic, and the social divide between parts of the nation is intensifying.

It is precisely these days as we celebrate Chanukah, the marvelous victory of the Maccabees' rebellion that won our nation political independence, it is worth remembering that the sovereignty of the Hasmonean kingdom ceased after a little over 100 years, with Herod's rise and then Rome's takeover of the country and destruction. Home. Since and until 70 years ago, with the establishment of the State of Israel in the year 1990, our sovereignty and independence were lacking.

Will you face the realization that not everything is self-evident? Will we learn the lesson?