A few years ago, the state stormed when the culture minister blamed Galgalt for exclusion of Eastern music in its broad definition. The debate touched on the principle issue - can a publicly funded station be allowed to incorporate different musical styles and streams? Unlike previous decades, on both sides of the barricade, they did not claim that Oriental music, with its various streams, is not a legitimate and diverse musical genre that should be heard. Similarly, the minister's demands were not limited to the principle level, but also to structural changes in the mechanisms that create and replicate musical uniformity - changing the composition of the playlist committee and setting a playback cap for Hebrew music. 

It is not known if the military stations would be in a hurry to change the manner in which candidates for musical editing positions and the admissions test content were located, if Maya Buskila and other singers would not raise a shouting voice to the minister. In light of the public embrace that the minister and singer's struggle has received, it is surprising that a similar struggle regarding our lives in the current crisis, to include women in the National Security Specialist Committees (MLAs) for the Corona struggle, has not received a public embrace or has been backed by the culture minister herself or any other minister.

It's hard not to feel that the NSC's rejection of the social organizations' claim to include women on committees stems from motives similar to those that led the LGBT, in the 1980s and 1990s, to dismiss contempt for Eastern music claims in the playlist. Unfortunately, this approach ignores two factors that make the essentially all-male and hegemonic composition harmful. First, in recent decades, studies have been increasing, indicating that the inclusion of women in conflict management and termination processes has a major beneficial impact. The NSC does not even have to make an effort to find appropriate expertise. The Lista list (lista.anu.org.il) provides an impressive and diverse list of expertise. 

Second, the Corona crisis demonstrates that reducing the concept of security in Israel to the military side has weakened all civilian security systems - health , social services and so on. in most professions these systems have a female majority. Moreover, since they are the first line of support services, no knowledge of these different needs and diverse sectors of Israeli society - whether they are Arabs and haredim.

inclusion of expertise, as well as representatives and representatives of Arab society and the ultra-Orthodox , In the committees of the NSC's expert committee on the fight against Corona, is not just a matter of being right But also be smart. This should be a first step in widening the circle of meaningful and meaningful participants in the security of Israel, and in rehabilitating not only the damage of the Corona but also the Israeli civilian national security systems. 

Dr. Tamir Liebel is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bamberg