Bennett has proven himself above and beyond the Corona crisis, so his demand to get the health portfolio that has become so sought-after is natural • For the PM, both the calm of the Likud and the supply of blue and white must be reassured. In the High Court

• Right is desirable in government but you will not get any price you require. Minister Bennett

After the High Court dismisses the petitions against his appointment as prime minister and against the coalition agreement ("for now," as the judges emphasized), Benjamin Netanyahu is turning to the issue of file distribution and closure of the government's inauguration on Wednesday. The dilemma presented to Yitzhak Litzman's decision The health file is clear: close with Naftali Bennett or hand over to white blue for at least two other files: the integrity of the bloc on the one hand, and the calm of the boiling internal party area inside the Likud anyway. 

On Wednesday, Netanyahu met Yuli Edelstein, after a recent disconnect between them, and as soon as he entered the room, he began to pour out his bitter heart to the right and to the sublime demands of blue and white. The prime minister thought he could soften Edelstein, who is likely to demand a senior case in exchange for the role of the Knesset Speaker, but was surprised that the former chairman did not intend to negotiate cases. For him or the Knesset or anything. 

Edelstein did not respect the High Court's decision requiring him to hold a hearing to replace him, and immediately resigned. In many ways, Netanyahu is indebted to Edelstein for his heroic heroism against the High Court. 

But Netanyahu did not fight for his return to office and surrendered almost without a fight. Benny Gantz's veto on July was real, but he has long since moved on and the matter on the subject is already completely shut down. No one in the political system, including in white and blue, would have doubted that Netanyahu would have knocked on the table and demanded that Aldstein be returned, no one would have stopped it. The knock didn't even have to be strong. A slight pat was also helpful in the current situation. 

Skills? First politics

Bennett, too, feels that Netanyahu is not fighting for the integrity of the bloc, which of course includes his right, but prefers to worry about his Likud members, reduce as much as he can only the disgruntled number in him, and leave him and his friends outside. While he sees his demand for health care as a matter of honor for the demand for a senior case such as defense or foreign, Netanyahu sees it as blackmail. After all, in the created situation, the health portfolio is worth at least two other cases in case it is transferred to white and blue. 

The constant difficulty: to please everyone. Netanyahu // Photo: Haim Zach / GPO

Netanyahu is not giving up Bennett and right so quickly but is not willing to pay any price for that. Interpersonal relationships, of course, jeopardize the existence of a normal channel of communication and connection, and this is probably the crux of the problem in the first place. It would seem that if headed to the right was a more digestible person for Prime Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz or Bezalel Smutrich, the discourse would have been more productive. 

Bennett has proven himself above and beyond treating the Corona crisis and also from his office in Curia, which should be far from the relevant decision-making, he has managed to lead to some extraordinary moves characterized by their originality and the sharp perception of reality. Moving to the health portfolio is only natural. But in politics, cases are determined by political need. Absolutely not by skill. Ability, experience and talent not only are not a factor in hiring a person for appointment, but not even a start. From time to time they even act against it. The one and only consideration that makes senior appointments in the State of Israel is the political consideration. He and his daughter. To the extent that politically Bennett's appointment to the Minister of Health is possible - this will happen. And if not - no. Everything else is just irrelevant. You can be sorry and complain but that's it. And so it always was. 

The real face

The court administration's decision to open the High Court Hall for the first time turned out to be its most brilliant move in the last decade. And its members of management, if only a little, return the lost honor to the detached Shrine and show all the professionalism, and more importantly - the humanity, of the judges.

Of course the change in question is mainly in the field of cosmetics. Until there is no significant change in attitude, unruly activism and exaggerated progressiveness, there will be no real change in public opinion. Therefore, the live broadcast is mainly the end push and not a solution from the root. But in the precarious state of the Supreme Judges, even this is enough to prevent a complete collapse. 

It seems that the first to get used to the new format are the judges themselves. During all the discussion hours, 11 attendees demonstrated vigilance, proficiency and sharpness. Even those who believe that the High Court is not at all empowered to discuss the cases that were put before it and that it should have thrown the petitioners out of all the stairs when they only came to our door, they had to admit that there was no question, comment or discourse that was not there. It was evident that their desire was one - to deepen as much as possible in the material placed before them and to make the right decision for them. 

This is obviously very misleading. Under the mantle of humanity that has suddenly been shown in many, opinions that never give a chance to another value are sometimes hidden. And it is, at least, to the taste of large sections of the public, of black-robed politicians. However, no one can take from the 11th group the rapid internalization and the surprising integration into the reality they created.

It is precisely those who found it difficult to withstand Peretz are the lawyers. It seems that the parties of the parties will take more time to learn the new profession as TV people and stage. In the United States, when the attorneys litigate before the jury, every theatrical attorney is an integral part of the role. In Israel, it was not necessary. To date. As a submissive to the judges, explaining and running their irrelevant questions, rather than putting them in their real place that makes it clear to viewers at home, asked her top gang to stick her nose in matters not her. Legally, of course, he was completely right in his conduct, this is the usual way to speak to the judges, but in a photographic and photographic manner, the composition of the judges was able to show his superiority over the prime minister's power. 

Not looking for headlines

State Comptroller Mathew Engelman is well aware of the criticism surrounding his functioning. Since taking office and deciding to change from end to end the role of state criticism as his two predecessors had done, Englishman has become an arrow target for all those who elevate the rule of law in their throats, especially when the right is in power. That's the way it is with them: a gatekeeper is entitled to full protection and status in the Israeli public system only when he performs his primary function - to persecute Netanyahu. If he sees things differently, he can no longer be called a gatekeeper for them.

In fact, Engelman has restored the dignity and status of the State Comptroller's Office, after two difficult terms that would have diminished the dignified institution toward me if they had continued. It is not for no reason that the President of the Institute of Accountants issued a special letter praising the latest audit report, even after the media attacks on the auditor. Accountants know what an audit should look like, and most of all they know how not to. 

A Comptroller in the Comptroller's Office completely repulsed the attacks, saying that the report released this week is professional and comprehensive as it has not been for a long time. "Anyone who criticized did not really read the 2,500-page report," he says. , Is criticized by various interested parties. " The same factor also points to the source of the attacks: former state comptroller staff members. 

The main criticism of the report was the deletion of the names of the people involved in the various cases, such as the names of Aryeh and Yaffe Deri, Eldad Koblenz, Minister Job Read and others. According to the source, "The current approach is that the criticism must be only about bodies and not people. The trend of naming began in the time of Micha Lindenstrauss, continued by Joseph Shapiro and not practiced anywhere in the world. " 

And Engelman checked it out. There is no country in the world in which state criticism is done as has been the case in recent years. "Personalization disrupts criticism," the source says. "Everyone is trying to extricate themselves and cast everything on others." An Englishman recently picked up a call to a visitor who was in front of Micha Lindenstrauss, Eliezer Goldberg. Say, ask him, do you mention names in your reports? What suddenly, Goldberg replied, names can be mentioned when you hold a hearing or a trial, not a criticism. 

The two previous critics, the senior bureau official says, would not read the report that was put on them by the firm's professionals. Engelman, on the other hand, goes over every word. A team that comes with unfounded information, they say, will not be able to enter The chapter he wrote for the report. On the other hand, if someone with solid information comes in - the material will be written, and if necessary, transferred to the USSR for a criminal examination. 

Unlike his predecessor, Engelman refuses to disclose information about bodies or persons whose criticism has been raised for criminal acts and whose details have been communicated to the USSR. But, despite the toothless image, there have been quite a few. According to the comptroller's office, early reporting of the material may disrupt a person's life It is not a crime, on the one hand, to disrupt an investigation if it is decided to open it. 

He gives, as an example, the case of the Deri couple in the latest report. Aryeh, he says, did not know at all that Yaffe and the association in its management asked the government office headed by him for financial support. Neither Deri nor her association are a controlled body. The auditor's office has no authority to ask The same questions and get responses, only from the minister, and if what he says is true, and he really didn't know, we are not an investigative body, we have no tools to judge, so what came out of publishing his name - just for headlines? 

The auditor, of course, passed on the details of the case to the Supreme Court, along with a systemic recommendation - the obligation of reporting to associate managers on kinship to a party approving the government's request. Because it turns out right now, there is no law or procedure that requires it at all.