When Beyoncé arrives in Balfour: What Israel would look like if women were to manage the corona crisis - Walla! news

2021-03-06T09:22:46.725Z

The most important discussions about our lives and the future of our children, about closures, the education system, freedom of movement - all were conducted in rooms laden with older men who had not experienced the hardships of many populations. Instead of accepting the dismal situation, close your eyes and imagine: with a prime minister and a female cabinet - how was the crisis managed?

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When Beyoncé arrives in Balfour: What Israel would have looked like if women had managed the corona crisis

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The top decision-makers are almost devoid of women.

Netanyahu and Gantz (Photo: Reuters)

The Prime Minister, the ministers in the main corona portfolios - health, education and finance, the first projector and the one that comes after him - are all men, men, men.

When the Corona Cabinet was first appointed in July, no women were included, and only after criticism arose was female service also added to the negotiating table.

The expert team that advises Netanyahu and the National Security Council since the outbreak of the epidemic did not include a single woman until a public outcry arose. Questions.

Those who replaced her on the task were the heads of the Constitution and Education Committee, correct guess - men.

Nearly all of the biggest consultations of the past year - on the closures, curfews, opening and closing of the education system and restrictions on leaving home - were conducted in rooms, or rather in zoom conversations, full of men.

Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen, who currently coordinates the treatment of Corona on behalf of Blue and White, got involved only two months ago due to unplanned political developments.

Until then, health, economic, social and political discussions with implications for the well-being and future of all Israeli citizens have taken place without any woman on the line.

Or at most one or two, in the form of individual righteousness in Sodom, such as the head of public health services, Sigal Sadecki, and her successor Sharon Elrai-Price, or the former director general of the Ministry of Finance, Keren Turner, who has since left her post in protest of the government's budgetary conduct.

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So true - Netanyahu and the men around him have turned Israel into a powerhouse of vaccines and closures and their dignity is in their place, for better or worse.

But let's press the audio on Beyoncé in the background and imagine, for the sake of the mental exercise, the State of Israel in 2020, if it were led by the Prime Minister and Cabinet Corona all female, and ask ourselves - if and what would have looked different?

Would the kids sit at home for an entire year confused by capsules and distance learning fail?

Would the economic casualties of the corona have found attention and balancing?

Would seniors, toddlers, and teens be a priority?

Would they have opted for richer or more stingy in running closures?

Were such harsh constraints of restrictions and social distance imposed on the public precisely on holidays and festivals?

Would they enjoy public trust, and perhaps empathy and compassion would work better than tactics of fear and intimidation?

Would they waste their time in ego games about powers and initiatives?

Would they allow the state to run without a budget?

Would they know how to cooperate and put politics aside?

And would they, too, have dragged the country to a fourth round of elections in the midst of a raging epidemic?

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Since this is a mental exercise, all the answers can be correct - and they are not necessarily gender dependent.

Leadership is a personal matter: there are also men who would have run the corona differently from Netanyahu, and there are women who do not have blood of empathy flowing in their veins.

Israeli politics is forceful, and surrounded by a Middle Eastern jungle, where the strong survive, and qualities identified with women, such as concern, compassion, thoroughness and sacrifice, are not attributed much geopolitical value.

Women in our neighborhood are often used as princesses, wives, mothers, escorts and observers - as well as victims of the bloody conflicts and sword wars of kings and rulers.

But in Corona, too, they paid - more than the men - the socio-economic price, and bore the double burden of working and caring for the family - under conditions of closure.

Studies from all over the world find that vulnerable populations are particularly affected by the deadly virus, and especially those known as the weaker sex: the corona is expected to exacerbate and deepen gender inequality in the labor and employment markets, and has already led to alarming increases in violence against women.

How was the crisis managed with a prime minister?

New Zealand Prime Minister Jessica Nordren (Photo: AP)

How easy it is for us to accept the situation in Israel in 2021, where fateful discussions are taking place and dramatic decisions are made about the lives of women and children - without any woman present in the room.

And some resistance and defiance would provoke the opposite thought exercise - if only women were to manage the crisis.

The truth is that despite the popular world stars shining in Corona, it is impossible to really determine that women do it better.

No direct and significant scientific or statistical relationship was found between gender and the measure of success in epidemic management.

But at least as far as the education system is concerned, it is easy to vote clearly - while men in Israel broke records during school shutdowns, and the education system was at the bottom of the barrel of quarantine bio-US priorities, in Beyoncé - Germany, New Zealand, and Scandinavian-led Scandinavian countries. The impairment in studies was minor.

They put the young generation, its future, education, and social and mental state at the forefront of their minds, and were able to find creative solutions that would allow it, as far as possible, to continue with a normal life routine.

The corona is a social epidemic, not just a health one, and to get out of it will require social resilience, not just vaccination.

Its long-term damage will be felt for years to come and will require over-investment and rethinking in areas that are generally considered “feminine” - education, welfare, health.

In a room full of men only, most of them aged 50 and over, the difficulties and needs of entire populations are lost, simply because none of them have ever experienced them, and the political discourse is particularly sparse and does not reflect even half of the range of experiences the public goes through.

One does not have to go as far as an imaginary superhero government to fix it.

There are enough worthy and experienced senior women in Israeli politics - in all parties - who can enter the room and take part in making the fateful decisions.

It should also be insisted that the men open the door and find a place for them at the table, until the day comes for Beyoncé to sing songs of empowerment in Balfour as well.

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