Merav Michaeli threatens to sue Otzma Yehudit and Minister Eliyahu for calling her a "terrorist hugger"/Amichai Eliyahu
"If I did what I believe and took responsibility and turned in the keys and resigned (from the position of chairman of the Y.S. Labor Party), Netanyahu and his government should also go home. I don't understand how people who fail don't go home." That's what Labor Party Chairman MK Merav Michaeli says in a special interview with Maariv.
In response to the question of whether Netanyahu is not bothered by the situation, Michaeli adds: "Probably not and that's how it is in all areas. Do you remember his phrase 'you're boring'? So this is Netanyahu's attitude towards all of us. I am in opposition to Netanyahu and I am the only one who always refused to sit with him in the government."
"Netanyahu takes care of himself and has turned the state and its citizens into a tool to take care of himself. In a world like Israel, there is a phenomenon of the rise of the extreme right and everyone, including in Israel, uses incitement through demagoguery and the media."
In response to the question of whether this also concerns the treatment of the abductees, she adds: "Netanyahu is not actually doing everything necessary to return the abductees. Netanyahu says that negotiations must be conducted firmly, but the abductees are not a commercial issue. The cost of losing the lives of the abductees is the highest."
According to Michaeli, "from the third week of the war I said that Netanyahu is not fit to lead the war and precisely because of the war he should be replaced through a constructive vote of no confidence. I thought that we should not go to the elections but appoint another prime minister. I talked to Knesset members from the coalition who agreed with me but at the moment of truth they were afraid."
"Sarah Netanyahu definitely has an influence on the issue of the abductees and that is a reasonable thing. In the meeting with me she was attentive and it is obvious that she cares"/Government Press Office, Amos Ben Gershom
Regarding her meeting with Sara Netanyahu regarding the abductees, she adds: "I don't know how much Sara Netanyahu is involved in the decision-making process. Even if she has influence, it is a reasonable thing. I initiated the meeting with you to promote the return of the abductees and the abductees."
"I am also looking underground for any possibility to return them. My starting point on this issue is that Sarah Netanyahu definitely has an influence on the issue. In the meeting with me, she was attentive and it is obvious that she cares about the abductees. Beyond that, I have no intention of saying what was said in the meeting that was conducted privately."
MK Michaeli is firm on the issue of recruiting ultra-Orthodox soldiers to the IDF: "We must implement the Security Service Law and recruit to the service those whom the IDF chooses to recruit and those it wishes to exempt, but without infringing on the rights of female soldiers to command, guide, dream to sing and also to dress as they wish." According to her
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"the ultra-Orthodox political leadership is opposed and has no connection to what their public actually wants. And certainly in my opinion it's not in their best interest. And I'm talking about this even before the anomalous situation that the IDF, which is supposed to be the people's army, is not like that."
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Michaeli. "Netanyahu takes care of himself and turned the state and its citizens into a tool to take care of himself"/Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel
On Miri Regev's transportation justice reform and the expanded transportation issue Michaeli: "I led the reform called 'Derech Sheveh' which replaced the hundreds of tariffs and combinations of the Likud government."
"Contrary to the lies that Miri Regev tells us, we issued a peripheral card that gave the possibility of traveling within a radius of 40 km to any place and we did not neglect the periphery. I raised NIS 15 million for additions to improve the service and bus frequency. Regev gives discounts to the elderly at the expense of bus travel frequency."
On the lack of transportation on Shabbat: "The order of priorities of the current government is political appointments, political bribery, and combines. We built a professional avenue in the Ministry of Transportation and most of them left, including Avi Noor, the head of the Road Safety Authority."
"There is a crazy increase in traffic accidents and a fatal damage to the economy. The lack of transportation on Saturday is a scandal. There are parents without cars who cannot drive the soldiers and this is still during wartime. Israel is under an air blockade and there are no practical incentives to return the foreign companies to fly."
On the state budget: "The 2024 budget is the most corrupt in the State of Israel ever. It is exactly the opposite of what it should be in a normal year, let alone in a war year. Money was poured into the ultra-Orthodox instead of education, science and agriculture. Disadvantaged populations and social services could be supported. This is not a war budget. The government is wasting money and taking out loans that we will join in paying for generations."
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