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Will an emergency room be built in Sderot, so that the residents of this scarred city will not have to depend, for life or death, on the traffic situation on the way to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon or Soroka in Be'er Sheva?
Depends on who you ask.
At the beginning of the week, Tamir Steinman reported (News 12) that the emergency medicine center, the emergency room that was planned to open in Sderot, will not be opened, after the necessary budget for its operation was not found.
The following day, Alon Davidi, the mayor of Sderot, was quick to deny: According to him, the completion of the project does not depend on the ministries of finance or health, who gave Steinman confused answers, but on the Ministry of Development of the Negev and the Galilee, which will pass the required budget.
Confused?
We too, but at the moment we will provide residents of Sderot with an emergency response at the HMO clinics only.
In all of this there was reason to be flawed even before the October War broke out, but when in the background is the government's desire to bribe the residents of Sderot so that they give up security in exchange for money, the resonance is much greater - and rightly so.
Why use a harsh phrase like "bribe"?
Because it is difficult to define otherwise what the Israeli government is doing.
As I recall, at the beginning of the war, the residents of Sderot were evacuated from their homes with the promise that they would not return to them until they enjoyed full security, similar (for example) to the residents of the center.
It may be that the prime minister is right and we are just a step away from a complete victory over Hamas, but currently Sderot is within firing range, which even if it has gradually decreased since the IDF began the ground maneuver, still exists and produces the same routine of "drips" that made the lives of the residents of Sderot miserable more long before the current campaign.
Mayor of Sderot Alon Davidi and Netanyahu.
The latter would count more if it was backed by thousands of functionaries/image processing, Yonatan Zindel Flash 90, Avi Rokah, Mark Israel Salem
mocked Resh
And here, although it has not yet won the war and restored security to the residents of the Western Negev, the Israeli government has offered them an unusual deal: return grants that will decrease the longer they delay to return.
Meaning: whoever returns today gets 100%.
Those who wait to see if victory is around the corner, as promised by the Prime Minister (who promised them back in 2009 to "overthrow the rule of Hamas"), will be content with reduced compensation.
This mechanism was also infuriating for the settlement that was evacuated, they would have called Savion, but it is doubly infuriating when this temptation is placed at the door of people, some of whom struggle for every shekel to make ends meet: give up security - and take money.
At least this bad move is not without economic logic: a resident who wishes to stay in alternative housing costs the state money every day, therefore the sooner he returns to his home, the less the amount the state must pay.
Makes sense, we already said (even if only on the condition that only the numbers are placed in front of the eyes).
All of this would have been valid even if there had been an emergency room operating on Sderot that could provide emergency medical services and save the lives of the wounded and sick, even before they were rushed to the hospital for further treatment.
When this happens when the situation in the city - not only is it unstable from a security point of view, it is also unsatisfactory from a medical point of view, the criticism becomes doubly sharp, because it turns out that not only is the Israeli government trying to bribe the residents of Sderot, it is also doing it with their money: an essential project is delayed due to a lack of budget, But money to return the displaced to their homes - there is.
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Entering the Soroka ER on 7/10.
Likud voters are transparent in the eyes of his elected officials/Shlomi Heller
Transparent in security and health
We will not go into all the incarnations of decisions, approvals, cancellations and postponements surrounding the establishment of that emergency room - and will go straight to the bottom line: after the government failed and prevented the project, last year, and was (rightfully) severely criticized for it, it finally decided (in May 2023) to approve the The project in the north (Kiryat Shmona, whose condition is very similar to that of Sderot) and in the south (August 2023).
According to Steinman's report, the money is available for the construction and completion of the project, but not for its operation.
How much money is involved?
Millions of shekels, a lot of money for the reasonable person, but "excess in the bazooka" when it comes to office budgets.
Which brings us to the "small money": the one whose transfers from office to office, from hand to hand and pocket to pocket, are hardly covered by the media, which is used to dealing with billions or at least hundreds of millions of shekels.
Budgets of millions often slip under the radar, although sometimes it is political bribery par excellence.
This is how weeds grew, such as the Ministry of Settlement (a conduit for transferring funds to the base of religious Zionism) or the Ministry of Heritage - ministries whose role is not to provide services to the citizen but to "launder" sectoral funds and a set of jobs that will help establish support for one or another.
What do ministers care?
Their father's money or our money, the citizens?
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Likud did not even bother to whitewash the support for tax exemption on cigarettes due to the many functions/ShutterStock
Cigarette break
The evacuation of the south and the north was a security necessity, few would dispute that, but it was possible to use the long months in which the residents were (and still are) absent from their homes to carry out an investment revolution in the settlements, to decide that since half of the government offices are redundant anyway, it is possible to direct the funds to the periphery that needs them in order to return to the routine, from the moment she feels confident.
I apologize to the Israeli government for mistakenly attributing to it discretion in matters, but it is amazing to see how the current government continues to take full advantage of the credit it received from the residents of the periphery, a large part of whom are loyal Likudi loyalists (too loyal?).
So in Likud they spit in the faces of their voters, but only those who vote for them in the general elections, not in the internal elections - the primaries.
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While the smokers woke up a few days ago to the reality that the cigarettes and tobacco products they consume became more expensive, the employees of the airport authority woke up with a smile: they still control the government, and not the other way around!
Likud didn't even bother to whitewash: their Knesset members voted in favor of excluding cigarettes sold duty free from the updated tax.
Why?
Again - kudos to the Likud for its impressive honesty: the employees of the Airports Authority, a body that benefits from duty free revenues (a large part of which comes from cigarettes), are unionized in good numbers to the Likud, to the point that, in fact, together with other bodies (from legitimate stakeholders such as the employees of the aerospace industry, just as an example , and to vote contractors who are nothing more than representatives of criminal organizations), determine the composition of the list for the Knesset.
That is, if the residents of Sderot (like the residents of Kiryat Shmona) want someone in the party that most of them support to start looking down on them, they should not only support it at the ballot box, but act to its ranks and become a pressure group.
That way, perhaps the government that today does not see Alon Davidi (Mayor of Sderot) and Avihai Stern (Mayor of Kiryat Shmona) from rain, will begin to treat them with the respect they deserve, when they come to the Likud primaries with thousands of functionaries in their pockets. Maybe then they will be treated like him Win the airport authority workers' committee, even if it will be at the expense of all of our health.
It sounds a bit extreme, I know, but considering the options they have, such as falling behind on the way to Soroka, Barzilai or Rivka Ziv (in the north), it sounds like the deal The only one who will make them stop being transparent in the eyes of the government that many of them supported in establishing.
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