Smotrich at a conference with Ofer Petersburg (photo: Yachats)
"Smotritz Netanyahu and Deri - that's them. That's where they're taking us. If we don't stop them now, we'll all be a slave's story."
This is what Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in reference to the manner in which he and his friends are presented at the protest, at the Media Real Estate Century Club meeting held this morning at the Carlton Hotel in Tel Aviv in the presence of senior real estate industry executives, under the direction of Walla! Real Estate Editor Ofer Petersburg. Smotrich called for dialogue out of a desire to reach an agreement.
He links the bureaucracy in Israel from which every person suffers, to the existing situation and the change that they want to bring about in the constitutional reform.
"My responsibility as Minister of Finance is to build better infrastructures for you. I need to plan much faster. I need much faster execution capabilities. And it is stuck in the authority without responsibility of lawyers and chaining from them to unelected bodies that will never, ever, ever be accountable to the public. And Stuck in this distorted model of authority without responsibility. Anyone who says that this reform will hurt the economy is simply lying. It creates panic, the end of democracy, the story of a slave girl. He runs to the whole world to say that democracy is being destroyed.
"I ask, 'There are rating agencies in the world. There is concern. About what?'
They tell me: We don't know the Israeli system. They didn't do a doctorate on the Israeli legal system. They don't know the reform. They don't know anything. They heard. So they say to me: Listen, if the legal advisor to the government issues such a document that is the end of democracy, then what are we They can do it. But the legal advisor to the government is an actress. They are going to take away some of her power. Not all the power. She has a very important role. And I will not live a day in a country that does not have a strong court that protects human rights. And I am the last one now who wants a rampage of repetition To the Mapai government of the beginning of the country's days without checks and balances and everyone does what they want.
But the system is extremely unbalanced.
All the reform does is shift the balance point to a little more governance.
And a little more execution ability for the places that bear responsibility." According to him, the opposition conducts itself in an irresponsible way that is ready to burn the country in order to topple the government. "Any panic,
rating agencies, etc.
It's people from here."
He cites as an example one of the major disputes with the government's legal advisor over the transfer of construction powers for the establishment of police stations from the head of Israel Lands to the Accountant General of the Treasury.
According to him, the ombudsman stopped the process without a real legal reason. "And so I, like you contractors, have been waiting three years for a construction permit for a police station." He returned and stated that the maligned reform will not harm democracy but will strengthen it.
Real estate
Tags
real estate
