The combination of the inability to read the inscription on the wall in time and the irresponsible campaign of the media led to a blurring of public reason. • And also: the establishment of the "Corona Cabinet" in an attempt to please everyone, led to poor functioning - the delay in budget approval indicates a problematic priority.

• There are things that it is always better to be pessimistic about. Young people keep the instructions on the Tel Aviv beach

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  Gideon Markowitz

One day you wake up and discover that missile defense planners are unable to provide reliable answers, both for intercepting missiles and for the use of laser weapons. So we all become laser experts and divide into parties. Now you find that the Depth State mechanisms do not know how to put together the aid budget decided by the government on the order of NIS 100 billion for those in need. And when they say needy, it's about the way it sounds. It is not wise to give grants to business owners with the tax authority like Fox.

The mechanisms are being tested for their ability to locate thousands and even tens of thousands of self-employed and freelancers who barely earn a minimum wage. And in one way or another, they are unaffiliated with Social Security and the Tax Authority.

Who even believed that bodies such as the Tax and Social Security Authority were able to carry out this connection between government money and the real "needy". One must say that from the first moment the government decided on aid, even when it was "only" at NIS 80 billion and said it is little compared to the US and Europe, there was a big question mark: How do the billionaires connect to the target? Two months ago, on the eve of the unity monster, two ministers spoke The economic of about 7 billion transferred in this way and 15 billion in another way, it was claimed that nearly 600,000 people received aid in the first and second stages, and Cohen foresaw a return to normal economic life in mid-June. 

A month earlier, in mid-April, influential elements, especially with a security background, had already pushed for a quick return to routine. Former prime minister Ehud Barak, who made systemic analyzes of the plague data, Yitzhak Ben-Israel and then-Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, were the three most prominent of them. His opposition was Prof. Gabi Barash. He said something like a straightforward curve; This epidemic is not a matter for mathematicians but for doctors, so it was much more pessimistic and cautious, you have to tell anyone who still wants to live in the future in this world - there are things that are always good to be pessimistic about, wars and epidemics are the definite cases.

Nearly three months ago, when they talked about eliminating the epidemic and expecting the economy to return to function, data were revealed that gave a reason for over-caution. First of all about the credibility of morbidity data in advanced countries in the world: it turned out that the death rate in the US, the UK, Germany and more is tens of percent higher - for the same reason of Social Security; because these were dead that did not exceed the radar of health care systems. .

At the end of May, on the eve of weeks, when I met with Prime Minister Netanyahu, I could feel that he was not very optimistic. It was already a month and a half ago. It was Wednesday and the number of infections had reached more than 60 a day. He said that when we reached 100, we would start going back to restrictions. So, it seems to me, for the first time, we talked about living up to the accordion.

Right-wing governments are usually crisp in the face of public pressure orchestrated by "soul or war" talent. Clearly, there was a combined surrender in an irresponsible media campaign. I see international news channels. Nowhere in the world of communication does the public dull the slogans that obscure reason and the messages that seek to convey those who believe in science and the medical system. Nowhere does an elderly clown waging psychological warfare against the health system, as well as the public itself, become a communications star. 

Unity instead of efficiency

Establishing the "Corona Cabinet" in an attempt to please everyone has led to a lack of functioning compared to the first days of the epidemic. The delay in approving the budget indicates a problematic priority 

The main problem from the beginning was communication with the public; Work derived from the Department of Population Behavior under the Home Front Command is trusted. In the first three months, it became clear that the people of Israel were disciplined and could respond seriously to messages conveyed by the prime minister and the director general of the Ministry of Health, a good sign, which they now miss. 

Professor Sigal Sadecki, the retired public health officer (epidemic), was unable to create a public media presence for himself. That was her only problem. Because, from a professional standpoint, it's pretty clear that she knew what she was doing. The media was more pragmatic to Prof. Yoram Les than Prof. Sadecki. A morbid phenomenon perhaps more than the corona epidemic. But it turns out again that the personal composition of the leadership hierarchy has a crucial weight. The transition government in which the Bibi king without Egypt performed superbly, with Bibi and Bar Good sign leading and receiving good assistance - at least according to the media - the defense minister Bennett. 

The contemporary hierarchy in which Netanyahu has shifted himself slightly aside includes Edelstein, the CEO of his office Hezi Levy and also Gantz. "The Corona Cabinet." And this team is less good. With the establishment of the unity government, efficiency was sacrificed in favor of "unity." The renewed, is the important thing. Gantz's way of thinking can be understood from his insistence on a biennial budget. That's what he promised and what was signed in the coalition agreement. But clearly, in the changing situation with uncertainty - first and foremost, budget needs to be given. We are too far away from the government two months after the establishment of the government, and the budget issue is still delayed.

In this regard and in the context of aid payments, there are those who are constantly vying for Saul Meridor. The problem is probably just the family name. Because Saul Meridor, according to what people who are very familiar with the Treasury say, has a super talented role. The problem of aid payments is unrelated to it. 

One very partial way to start the economy is to accelerate the implementation of infrastructure construction programs; The Ministry of Communications is ready with fiber optic system deployment plans and the G5 network. In addition to a lot of jobs that will be added in the establishment process, local tech companies will get a huge boost to the international market.

Blowing with the wind

With a lightning report not clear from where it was retrieved, Minister Gamliel and the new CEO seem to have raised too high and too fast the climate crisis flag, just after they entered the Ministry of the Environment

Anyone remember Greta Thanberg? The mass hysteria of the end of the world following the climate crisis? The Alexandria Oxio Cortez warning that the world will go extinct in 12 years? The environmental researcher who is also one of the well-known activists on the subject for many years, Michael Schellenberger, asks for forgiveness for deception and intimidation. This is probably the most important article published this year. 

Minister Gilo Gamaliel // Photo: Oren Ben Hakun

"Climate change is happening, only it does not predict the end of the world. It is not even the most serious environmental problem," he writes in an article that appeared and dropped immediately from Forbes. An energy expert who testified in Congress and won awards for his work. "I feel obligated to apologize for the terrible way in which environmentalists have deceived the public," he wrote, and the details he submits in a new book, "Never Apocalypse." He blasts a series of myths and states that "humans do not cause a sixth mass extinction in numbers," or that "climate change does not make natural disasters more difficult" and more on the list of lies, he claims, spread by environmentalists.

But for Israel's sake it is important to state that "the most important step in reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is switching from wood fuel ... to natural gas and uranium" ... "Absolute reliance on green energy will require increasing land use for energy from 0.5 percent today to 50 Percent".

About two weeks after David Diamond's entry into the post of CEO of the Ministry of the Environment, he has already declared: "Stopping the establishment of polluting stations (gas). In addition, Israel's electricity generation strategy needs to be re-examined in light of technological developments in the world ... "

He pulled out a report from his office there, which is unclear how it was prepared in two weeks; probably he was in some drawer waiting for a new minister or minister and a new CEO. For some reason, his declaration is, in spite of citation, letters from the radical environmental organizations, demanding "a policy change while stopping the construction of gas-fired power plants" (June 16); And in another letter, after the ministry has already published its position: "We believe that the position of the Ministry of the Environment is up to date ... is of considerable importance in discussing the establishment of these power plants." 

Deputy Minister Gila Gamaliel, upon receiving the appointment from the Prime Minister, declared that "the climate crisis is one of the most important issues for humanity, and we must make it a priority." Then, in the spirit of Alexandria Oxio Cortez's apocalyptic madness, she determined that the fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas) should be completely disposed of.

Who needs Mickey Haimovich when she has her age Gamliel. After declaring the policy and intentions of the new CEO, you wonder what his degree of knowledge of energy, environment, etc. really turns out to be. Diamond was Gamaliel's chief of staff at the Ministry of Social Equality. He was in management. Directors and all. Gedera.

He and his experts have already decided that by 2030 Israel will switch to 40 per cent (some aspire to 60 per cent) of "renewable" or green electricity. That means solar. The Energy Ministry worked for a full year with electricity authority experts, which is the trust body on the electricity sector, for a report on it. Minister Steinitz set a target a year ago to increase from 17 percent solar power to 30 percent by 2030. That's more or less The maximum use of solar energy for all kinds of reasons. 

The authors of the report worked with various experts, including the Ministry of the Environment, to get feedback. This is a report that is serious and is also subject to a hearing.

The impression is that the Ministry of Environmental Protection wants to work against the Ministry of Energy and manage the energy sector in Israel; Until Minister Yuval Steinitz and the Prime Minister succeeded in getting Israel on a path of energetic independence including turning Israel into an energy superpower, the environmentalists who have never given up their fight in the gas scheme want to harm gas and electricity production. The report issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection already fuels environmental organizations "Clear", "Housekeepers", "Greenpeace" and more. 

Talking in the air

Operating gas stations reduces the use of coal and air pollution. Someone should tell this to those who fight against the gas outbreak and cause lasting damage

The seriousness of the new team indicates that within a year Israel will recycle 100 percent of the garbage. The most advanced countries in the matter, Switzerland and Denmark, came after decades of investment in refuse recycling and tens of billions of euros, to 40 percent recycling capacity. Israel proved itself on the solar issue during the Steinitz era, when within five years we reached less than two percent of electricity output to a state that by the end of the year 10 percent of electricity would be generated from solar energy. 

"All the evidence and evidence indicates that an energy-intensive culture like ours is far better for man and nature than the backward culture to which we seek to bring us back from environmental scares," Schellenberger writes. Under the policy of the Ministry of the Environment lies the "sustainability" ideology, which wants to suppress economic growth and industrial development. "Anxiety and hostility to modern culture are behind," writes Schlenberger, defining the economic policy derived from it as anti-humanist. 

When the CEO of the Environmental Protection Agency says about the gas-powered power stations that they pollute, it has no reference. The gas reduces coal use and, as a result, lowers air pollution. Delays in gas development have cost Israel cancer and thousands of deaths due to coal use. 

A decade ago, the experts defined the land problem as the major obstacle to the transition to solar energy. This is also the main environmental problem in solar power plants. It is not only the receiving areas, but the vast areas that will be occupied by the high voltage lines leading from the Negev to Gush Dan. The Ministry of Environmental Protection could become an activist environmental organization aided by extremist NGOs that continue to fight against the gas outline. Then petitions will come to the High Court to act contrary to a government policy that has proven itself.