Another day of the World Cup celebrations was overshadowed yesterday by the deadly double attack in Jerusalem, which made the broadcast day depressing.
As in the formation of a football team, it included the military reporters on the edge, backed by security experts in the link and loud commentators in the stands, who did not always internalize that the opposing team came to the game for their lives and ours.
Of this whole day, a seminal interview with Israel's designated "defense coach", Itamar Ben Gabir, who arrived at the scene of the attack and gave a dramatic statement to the media, stood out.
More than ten microphones were placed in front of the appointed Minister of Internal Security - while quite a few broadcasters forgot that a completely different government, with its own Minister of Internal Security, was running the affairs.
The event should have been analyzed at the VAR level: watching slow motion at every level for a layoff, every tackle and every sentence that could bring Ben Gabir to a situation of difference.
It started when he said: "I heard from the commissioner a review of the attack", that is - while Likud is threatening to go to the elections, in practice Ben Gabir announced that there is a new sheriff in town, and that there is already an open personal channel between them. It is not a scoop that the designated minister is one of those colorful coaches who say everything, And we probably have four years of media World Cup waiting for us.
Media World Cup.
Ben Gabir, photo: screenshot
Maybe it's his lack of experience in the job, and maybe we're entering a new era of media announcements, but it doesn't seem like Ben Gvir is going to play defense and use the well-known phrases "the long hand of the IDF" and "he won't sleep and he won't sleep". "It's only by a miracle that we don't count dozens of casualties," as he alludes to the incompetence of the current policy, and from there he runs to strike "Peru is murdered and his body is kidnapped" - to tell the public the truth about the disconnection of a Druze young man from ventilators, after a whole night of denying that the media is satisfied in the kidnapping of her body.
"If I am the Minister of Defense - I will eliminate the Neyya in 24 hours", bragged Avigdor Lieberman, and when he did become the Minister of Defense he tattooed on his image the phrase that will symbolize the squeamishness of the politicians more than anything else.
Ben Gvir compared and raised not with a single promise, but with a series of moves outlined in the "Exact Move" style of the sports channel: "return to the targeted possibilities, stop the scams in the prisons, check where these terrorists are coming from and move house by house."
I and the commentators of the channels counted five promises during the four years that the "defense coach" promised to keep - including a sentence that will be pulled from the archives every time we suffer a security defeat.
Because when the field reporters asked him if it was all possible, he answered: "Why am I going to be the minister of internal security?".
How symbolic that there are exactly four years until the next World Cup and the elections.
Let's hope this ability is enough.
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