State in lottery: How did Israel become an illegal casino?

Relative to a country that bans gambling, it turns out that in Israel you have to win a lottery to get basic services: a housing crisis?

Visit the Housing Casino.

Passport queue?

There is a black market for queues at the Interior Ministry.

And what about an appointment with a specialist doctor?

Here is a story that begins with an attempt to renew a passport and ends at the roulette of queues

Liat Ron

25/04/2022

Monday, 25 April 2022, 13:12 Updated: 13:44

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There is no casino in the State of Israel, but we live in the country by lottery.

The people do not stop gambling under the auspices of governments that seemingly fight illegal gambling, but push us all to participate in it.

We gamble in lotteries at a discounted apartment, bringing forward hearings in district committees, making appointments for specialist doctors and finding appointments to renew a passport or issue an identity card.

Instead of the state giving us the services it must give us in court, it opens roulette, distributes chips, spreads cards on the table, and leaves us to our own devices.

In the last month I too have become a heavy gambler: since the bat mitzvah and I decided to fly for a joint trip to celebrate the event overseas, and we discovered to our disappointment, then we did not know how deep it was, that her passport had expired, the pursuit of passport Or rather: the pursuit of the goddess of fortune.

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Passport or lottery ticket?

Want a queue - pay the farmers (Photo: ShutterStock)

A visit to the Ministry of the Interior's queuing casino

Bottom line: no queues.

I mean, you can get an appointment, but for a few more good months, and if you got lucky and managed to get one before the departure date, the long-awaited passport, sent to you by Yona Pesachat, will probably arrive a good few weeks after the date you hoped to fill bags at the store. The local "Primak".

The queue is booked on the authority's website, which has a slow and annoying interface, and to find a vacant queue, you have to go through all the bureaus in the country and each time type in the applicant's ID number, phone number and bureau name and so on.

From experience - in about the tenth bureau the nerves begin to loosen.

If two family members want to go together to renew a passport or issue an ID card, or both together, they need to find consecutive queues, because only the holder of the typed ID card is only accepted at the bureau, which creates double pressure.

By the way, consecutive queues are a rare to non-existent matter.

At least half a day in total I invested in repeated typing, until I discovered "PICKTIME" a technological venture with a telegram channel, which finds queues by division into regions in the country and alerts them in real time, since the Interior Ministry occasionally releases food for crocodiles so they do not bite. The shortage of manpower and the blame for those who did not bother to renew documents in Corona did not reassure anyone

. For a quick queue at the Ministry of the Interior but also, how did they not think of it before - the farmers, those shameless and unscrupulous who are willing to make some money at the expense of others.

Welcome to the Casino of the Ministry of Housing.

Keep in mind that some of the winners will be "monkeys" who will not actually own the property (Photo: ShutterStock, screenshot)

Did you think there was no black market in the apartment lottery?

Think again

Yesterday the thinker of the venture, a likeable guy named Nisso, published a post in which he warned against the sale of queues by inmates who identified a business opportunity and started grabbing queues and selling them at a high price.

Incredibly, the state is the one that degrades its citizens to crime, when it does not provide the services it must provide and it is the one that is responsible for the growth of the barrages and the cultivation of the black market created because of it.

People with deep pockets or just criminals, take a "monkey" who won a lottery for a occupant (sometimes register it themselves), give him a token amount and get a ridiculously expensive apartment intended for a young couple (they have to wait about five years until full ownership transfer, but for a discount of Half a million shekels or more, worth the wait, not to mention the money laundering during the process).

When there are no queues for passports, people are willing to buy them.

What would a patient's family not do, to get an appointment with a specialist.

Busy at Ben Gurion Airport on the eve of Passover - and these are the other lucky ones who managed to find a queue to extend the validity of the passport (Photo: Flash 90, Avshalom Sasson)

The state is trampling on a basic law - and the minister is helpless in front of the committee

And all this even before we talked about the violation of the Basic Law of Freedom of Movement.

When the state is the only one that can issue a passport and it is the one that prevents its citizens from going abroad, it knowingly passes over it and continues as usual as if

nothing

. Shaked's attempt to open the offices on Fridays, in order to increase the number of queues, met with widespread opposition from the ministry's staff committee. In the Acre bureau, for example, all the queues were miraculously "caught" Otherwise,

the solution is relatively simple:

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