Dimona did not like when they were sent to wash dishes in Tel Aviv, but more angry about the picky enforcement and lack of government • On the horizon, leftists see as a unique natural phenomenon • In Tel Aviv Blvd. Shas also states that "finally, there is no other way" • Only Kibbutz Mefalsim converted the automatic lecture to a joint vote • Campaign in the Likud country, the day after the elections

En route to Dimona, this year’s blessed rain has left green stamps on the ground. The eyes wander and wonder at the confused geography and the desert that blooms at the end of winter. At noon, Mayor Benny Bitton sent Wattsap messages with "well done" greetings to residents. "1st place in the country in the Likud vote," she boasted. I went to meet an imaginary acquaintance, who would explain the Likud percentages.

What explains the Likud super-percentages? Looking for an outlet from Plonter // Photo: Liron Moldovan

He is a fascinating combination man, an excellent manager and dancer, devoured the big world but chose to return lovingly to the small town where he grew up, to engage in endless work with youth and young people, to plant a hope that they can grow in Dimona as in any city, and still remind them of how special This place. It is the nature of the dreamers in the sand, full of infectious passion to move, do and change. If you claim that the place is not, it will make him so. He cares, so he wants to talk openly, but without a name.

So who did you vote for?

"I thought about it a lot. In the previous election, I voted for a job, and this time I was definitely debating, probably when I hear people like Sharan intellect talking the way they talk, about their moon, as a factories and if fired so we have to come and wash dishes in Tel Aviv. I am much closer to Amir Peretz than the intellectual. I believe that in the current situation, the government should lead to major changes in the periphery, in the eastern and western Negev, this is our future space, and as long as the government does not do such things, I do not agree with everything the economic right says. "

So after all the deliberations, who did you vote for at the end?

"Likud".

Explain?

"Because everything I said is irrelevant right now! Our situation is catastrophic, a year of no government. And if there is no government, there is no budget! There is hardly any money to run, but no project budgeting, there was a plan to promote those in the periphery, find them jobs, provide them with employment. And since it is projectile and budgetary, boom - shut it down - boom - nine people in Dimona went home for a living without a salary. And who cares?

After three election campaigns, the state is like a human body that begins with the collapse of the systems, the heart, the brain, the lungs, which are essential for the continuation of existence, but the legs can be given up, which is familiar. And I, as a resident of the periphery, need a government, and I don't care which one anymore. And when you do a cold calculation of numbers and math, you realize that the only people who are really close to it are the Likud, which is why I vote: government. "

And don't bother with the indictments?

"Of course I'm interfering with the indictment. But more than indicting me, I get disrespected by leaders. When I was six years old Begin came to Dimona, and my late father took me to see him, can't remember what Begin said, but I remember the electricity In the air, and I believed him, that he cared about me. I was educated from home, expected from the leaders a lot, and certainly on the value side. And so it really bothers me that our leaders aren't very, very much. But I don't think there is one in the political system that is naive. If I look at Netanyahu's files and I remember the misdeeds of other past leaders, then it's no different, and they put it on the defendants' bench because they offered him positive communication ?!

So you think the judicial system officials have come together and said, Come on let's sew Bibi?

"When I see how the judicial system is treating people who are skinned versus light-skinned, you realize that there is selective enforcement here."

Netanyahu is skin brown?

"No, but he does see us, and he represents us. When I see that the Knesset is a lawmaker, and the High Court has no problem repealing it, it's something that bothers me very much. Because I feel that the only place where I and I have a kind of representation is in the Knesset. I do not know any people in the Supreme Court, there is no one there who looks or thinks like me, how can I not have representation there? I would like to believe, I really want to believe that the court is a place of justice and honesty, but I'm not sure, with all the cases that are exploding there, and the terrible corruption that is in there, from David to the judges' appointment.

The sign at the entrance to Sderot. Likud stronghold // Photo: David Peretz

"It's real, it's not a crackdown on elections, and I don't know how to relate to it, I really don't know ... It breaks my trust in the legal system. At the end of my feeling is that there is selective enforcement and judging, and there is no one to question the police and no one to criticize the prosecution's decisions. ".

So do you believe there is some kind of legal junta that decides?

"I am not a lawyer and do not know, I have no idea, but most people certainly do not. Because Walla, it is more than a doubt."

So let's ask another, to your understanding, after more than a decade of Bibi and Likud rule, is the situation on the periphery good or is the periphery again voting against itself?

"Missing everything here! Opportunities in education, employment, culture and medicine. The huge pit they have created here for decades, no amount of money will fill to equality with the center of the country. So I am looking into who is giving me more service? Who can really change it? Only to make significant government decisions. Like, for example, lowering an international sprouting airport. It is not market forces, only a government can decide, certainly when we are still prisoners in a military state where the generals decide everything. "

what?

"Sure, here's the Air Force does not want to give the sprouts, intelligence people do not want to go down to the south of the country, and when they want to bring down Bibi brought three generals from the army, and a general from the media. And did not succeed. And Bibi can change for me."

Wait, Stino again, is it good or not?

"Economics is a global issue, it needs to be examined in general terms, and I see what's happening in the world, Spain Greece, England, where they are struggling with the situation, and here in the country are struggling with the growth rate. True, there is still much to fix, but still the situation Here's a thousand times better than there. "

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Horizons in the afternoon. Each coin has two sides - and the young woman we're talking to is on the wrong side of the periphery. After years at the center, she returned here with her partner, to be close to the family and to justify the feeling that they are not just a place to grow up and then leave. A successful career, traveling around the world, really "minded International", and even before I ask - she bursts into the desire to share and describe and some of the mandate fluctuation on this day is especially difficult for her.

"The ultra-Orthodox neighbors labeled me 'Arab lover.' The city's residents and my childhood friends asked me what happened to you during all these years' outside, 'you became extreme and you forgot where you came from. Even my favorite nuclear family who calls me on the Sabbath table is' traitor' and 'stalled. Israel ', they fail to connect one by one and see the misery in which they discuss themselves living under the auspices of' only Bibi 'Guelem, their protectors and saviors.

"How much can Bibi do?" Sderot // Photo: David Peretz

The fact that they forgive him about the corruption because he "stitched files to him", the terrorist life and fear in the USSR, the difficult financial situation and they say to me: "What's hard for you? Are you constantly abroad", and I think of the fucking medicine and the urge Request and they bring back blind love, tolerance and dangerous admiration. So you ask me what it's like to be - by choice - a peripheral resident, an Eastern, leftist woman? "

Yes, although I can guess what you're saying.

"It's desperation. It's the most 'without a future, without hope, without a dream' which is not mine. I live well and hurt the pain of others. Patronizing and patronizing? Maybe. But maybe not."

How do you explain the Likud vote? Again the "periphery points against itself"?

"This government does not see them in meters. Perpetuates them and their condition in all walks of life. Throws them occasionally - discount flights and low cell fares, best known to them for kidney delinquency, and only saves them from the disaster. In fact - he inflames disasters on them. Little in escalation every two months and missiles and kids wetting in bed by the age of 12. And also the lie that every other leader will sell them and the country to the Arabs. Literally. "

So what's the solution to your understanding of this situation? Will you live on the horizon and see them leftist as a human being?

"First of all, you make false assumptions about you because it gives you a sense of security for the fear that you, the foreigner, want to take over and change an existing situation. So I am perceived as a stranger in my city. I go to the polling station and take a look at the Shas children and the Likud and right-wing booths. The extreme. They are not me and I really am not. We do not speak the same language. A deep chasm between us and nobody wants to reach out to the other side. "

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Another urban evening, perhaps innocent but not an orphan. Mothers and fathers roam the shopping center with the children. Purim shopping routine. I enter "Sushi Sushi, Sushi Sushi" in Sderot, and wonder how the Moroccan people get along with pronouncing the place's name. Inside, the place is bustling with a diverse population. The soldier's sweatshirt reads "The Border Protection School," a man in an Indonesian food suit complains about the Corona and does English business via mobile. A religious guy, from Ethiopia, plays on a mobile with his two children. The waitress from the nearby kibbutz arrives with the rollers and the little girl screams - "There! Sushi !!!" I ask if he wants to be interviewed, "Leave politics. Until I have quality time like that with the kids, I'd rather be with them," a wide smile stretched across his son.

Shas voter in Sderot // Photo: David Peretz

At the entrance to the city is a Likud sign, Netanyahu's picture between the two Israeli flags, looking sideways and a little back. If you go up the hill across the road, you can see Gaza flashing in bright spring electricity. This is the city of Amir Peretz, the oldest and most obvious "red color" city, and here where the missiles made names, adventurous entrepreneurs built a commercial center that evening packed with cars. I am debating between an Asian emperor and a bright red, lucky that the kind waitress came to help me.

"Not from the urban kibbutz, not a student, not a settlement nucleus, Walla, blonde and everything, and I totally relay, would you believe? But that's because I come from a mixed house. My father Bibi and my mother Gantz," she chuckles.

And how do they get along?

"Great! This is a family."

And what did you choose?

"I voted Gantz! As far as I'm concerned I don't vote at all. I'm all 18 and I feel I'm too young, and these are my first choices, and I don't understand."

But you made a choice anyway?

"Because on the one hand, Bibi is possible, and on the other, who assured me that Gantz would be better? And on the whole, with all Bibi's cruise and all, the situation here is pretty darn good."

You live in Sderot and whoever reads it will wonder - how do you think this is around, when you are in danger of red paint.

"I'm not one of those who run away, in all the rounds I would have stayed here, and on the whole I don't trust anyone. It's not that if Gantz is in power there will be something else. So I'm used to it."

And did you consider voting for a burst?

"I would vote for Peretz. If he didn't go with Meretz, it's her party - I won't vote." So why did your dad vote for Bibi? "Oh it's simple - his dad voted for Bibi, so he would vote for Bibi too."

A traditional family?

"No, my Ashkenazi father, this is a legacy for us," she laughs, "and most importantly for you to write - we are not poor! And everything is good and happy here. Come on, I have to go back to work."

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Midnight, the "It" Pub in Sderot, the place is bustling with hangovers. She comes with a colorful unicorn pajamas for the pub. Not long ago she returned from Tel Aviv but died escaping from here, "There is no work here, there is nothing to do here." She can't find herself. I ask to take a picture of her - "What about it? No one in Tel Aviv noticed, but in Sderot? Who would believe you?"

So, then, again, take a photo of a sad old lady, and a broken shutter? Aren't you a peripheral?

"Wait, wait - what's your agenda?" The company asks me suspiciously.

My agenda is what you think and see. I came to report, not make up.

"So how does someone dressed like a unicorn at night be Sderot?" She is also "Sderot" I tell her and I can convince her.

And what do you mean?

"Shas."

really? How does this work out for you with entertainment, Tel Aviv and cool work?

"Because in the end, there's no other way than that, don't forget."



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Kibbutz Levalim. "It all started with a post we saw on Facebook. One of the kibbutz was supposed to come to the center, when she put up a post that because of 'red color' she was handing out her tickets. It touched us, so we came to do a show here, at the levels." Outside, I'm talking to one of the kibbutz's young people. He is 20, and this is his third election campaign.

"The last two times I voted for Meretz, but I felt that Peretz's connection with Meretz was not getting us anywhere." Why? "I don't like Orly Abaxis so much."

So who did you vote for?

"The Common."

Would you like to vote for an Arab party?

"Yes, my neighbors are Arab. They live here beyond this fence, and I really want to know them."

Your neighbors? You mean Gaza?

"Yes, but not only, Rahat, too."

Do you walk around in Rahat?

"Sure, it was only on Election Day that we went to eat meat and cannabis there, and even when I go north, I go to them."

Do you have relationships with Arabs who are more than going to eat?

"Yes, I'm attending Eastern Music School. I didn't come from an Eastern music house, and it intrigued me."

So why the common?

"I didn't feel I had any other choice. They have blue IDs, and they pay taxes like I do, citizens of the state, so how exactly are they not legitimate? I think it should be the state of all its citizens."

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Suddenly I hear the words that Spring Gadge sings in the background as this confused period anthem:

"They say there is no cure for pain / We are not taught how to tame longings / We are taught how to pretend / Everything grows, the roads, the buildings, the trees, the people / Everything grows, roots, you will not believe / You will not believe ..."