In the video: Tal Shalu with the female and male soldiers of the IDF in Gaza/photo: Tal Shalu
Good evening and good week Netanya, Tel Aviv, Or Akiva and other squares throughout the country on Shabbat nights.
In the next few hours, flights to far and near destinations will take off from the skies of Israel.
In the cockpits will sit men and women, religious and secular, right and left, from all over the country.
Their mission will be the same mission and their responsibilities are the same.
In this plane called the Israeli society, we sit, all of us, so let's talk about equality in the burden.
It's not equal burden, don't get confused.
It's equality.
Equality for all of us because the burden rests on all of us.
This is not equality in the burden, make no mistake, it is equality in education, in opportunities, it can also reach equality before the law.
Because equality is the most basic and essential element of democracy, an unnatural but desirable form of government and the only one that will ensure our place and existence here.
There is no such shape within a radius of a thousand miles from here, from Netanya or from any other square in Israel tonight.
It is not enough to just choose equality, it must be maintained.
It is not enough to just complain about equality, you have to work for it day and night.
Out of 259 municipalities in Israel, only 14 are represented by women, in less than half of them the ratio of women reaches fifty percent, this is not equality.
Haredim demonstration against conscription.
Equality is the most basic and essential element for democracy/spokesmen of the Israel Police
The equinox is not like the sunlight that meets us at the beginning of each day, it is more like the darkness that meets us at the end.
The artificial intelligence state, the international start-up nation, will meet the most important human challenge in the coming years and that is equality, every other challenge is dwarfed by its absence, nullified by its absence, because it endangers our very existence here.
Look what happened to us, with the book, the nation of inventions and the economy among the strongest in the world.
The most similar thing to us today is the difference, our broadest common denominator is the separator and the different.
No war will get rid of that, no amount of volunteering will cure it, and even if we protest here every night, believe me, it won't be enough.
In the hospitals of Israel, new citizens of a young country are being born right now.
Citizens of their day who will meet in the baby's room and will arrive in exactly 120 years at the same hospital at the end of their journey.
Along the way, some will study core studies and go into military or civil service, some will not.
Those who think that the burden on their shoulders is not equal is not wrong, but the responsibility is.
The responsibility for the existence of a healthy society, of a reformed country is equal between both.
In order to bear it, the burden must be equally shared among equals.
I assume that we are all in favor of having talented and learned rabbis, who will continue the tradition and perfect the practice of the Jewish religion, we are all in favor of intellectual and educated people, outstanding athletes and more.
But you can study Torah and observe mitzvot and serve the state.
The one who finances the study programs, the medical services, the allowances and the necessary assistance, ask the wearers of the knitted caps, and the girls of the studio.
The time has come to change, to change the unwritten but so clear agreement between the government and the citizen, between what I give and what I receive, it is time for state education to not be only 20 percent, because in a country where the state reaches 20 percent, there really is no state.
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Red shirts and fire in the eyes/official site, building an alternative
Those who understand that the burden of maintaining the state is equal, do not need equality in the burden.
We simply need equality, how simple it sounds, how difficult to implement, how essential to our continued existence here.
Equality, ladies and gentlemen, is not a luxury, it is the basis and without it we are dancing on the floor at a party that is about to end soon, only no one knows how deep we will fall.
I hope it is clear to everyone that the fall can be painful.
The State of Israel is fighting and not only in the south, not only in the north but also in the interior of the country.
This war is justified and not a weakness, it is the strength of a society arguing for its very existence and its end is known in advance.
We are standing here today in one of the most challenging times the country has known, the country is us, all of us.
She does not belong to anyone, just as there is no price for a person who is kidnapped from his home.
Equity in burden will be like any other equity.
You know why, because we will not rest until it arrives, until we are fifty-fifty, until all streams of education are equally budgeted and equal opportunities are reached in the education system, until the local government has the same amount of women and men, and until every citizen of Israel who benefits from its fruits and services serves it in his own way and equally.
Because in the tank everyone sits, left and right, of every religion and nationality, men and women, and the bullet shell does not distinguish between them.
We are in a war for the future of the State of Israel and we will win, because everyone feels the inequality, few are able to purchase an apartment and a liter of gas costs like a cup of coffee - if I had woken you up to this reality twenty years ago you would have said I was dreaming, just think what will happen in twenty years if we stop dreaming .
Midan Bar.
If we give up, just think what will happen in twenty years/official website, official website
Equality will be here, and until that day comes, we will continue and not be silent, we will not give up because this is not a war of one tribe against another.
This is the battle for the survival of the State of Israel that we love and are committed to, and only to it.
For her we need an alternative, pay attention to the group of girls with the red shirts and the fire in their eyes, and faith in the righteousness of the way that no one will win.
They build an alternative and it's not because they are women, it's because of the women they are.
We should all follow them, some of us will even salute them and I am among them.
Ladies and gentlemen, these very days we are writing one of the most important chapters in the history of the State of Israel, perhaps there is nothing more important than this, let's write it together and we should write it correctly, because we do not have the privilege of making spelling mistakes and no one will write it for us.
The writer is the chairman of the Israeli Pilots Association.
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