"The Levant jumped, he had to say he would sit under Netanyahu" • "Gideon Saar spat in the faces of the Mizrahis" • "The Arab sector saw the hugs that were in Abu Dhabi and realized that it is possible otherwise" • "I come to TV and everything in the studios is anti-Bibi; the public does not like Who despise his representatives "
A day on the road with Miri Regev, the engine of the Likud campaign
Photo:
Eric Sultan
Monday, eight-thirty in the evening, the Hall of Culture in Migdal Haemek. Likud election conference - a premium edition, the ones at the end of which the prime minister is injured. Mayor Mincha, one MK opens, another minister comes after her. The audience is drowsy in fitting for the shuffling campaign. At the end, she simply takes the stage and the audience comes to life. The need to open cultural events becomes superfluous and the performance begins.
Her schedule started at seven in the morning, but only at 12 was I attached to the Minister of Transport's close staff. What is written in the diary is only an indication of what is really happening, and the only option to talk politics with is to sit next to her in the big car (which will have room for all the speakers and advisers) To her second home. A newspaper article about Miri Regev is a miss; this woman is built for a docu-reality that will document all the little moments that happen along the way, her visual reactions and the endless energy of those I hire enjoy every moment in the campaign. But let's start first.
12:00
Fields Authority The airport has
an urgent meeting with Ethiopian Airlines CEO.
Deputy Minister of Internal Security Gadi Yabarkan translates the conversation between the CEO, the Ethiopian ambassador and the consul, who want to make Addis Ababa a permanent destination. They ask Regev and the CEO of El Al to open another line, and to pull out several thousand Israelis stuck in the country.
This is of course regardless of the immigrant flight that is scheduled to land here later this week.
There is no need to translate into Amharic to understand Regev's temperament, which greets them on International Women's Day, looks at the trays of croissants and sandwiches and asks in English: "What has the most calories?"
And chooses one.
Everyone laughs, Miri flatters Gadi in English, he continues the line and snatches with a smile: "How do you say do not fly over yourself in Amharic?"
Miri's team urges her that all the media is waiting at Ben Gurion Airport. The meeting is signed by the fact that we must first protect the interests of Israeli companies and we will talk later.
13:00
Terminal 3 Ben Gurion Airport
mentors the new outline and the Israeli antigen test.
I ask her if the new policy is a derivative of the News 12
investigation
.
"The Pike News' investigations against the committee are unrelated," she says, "there is an exceptions committee for those who are leaving even now. The government decided on this date a long time ago, because of the election. March 20 ".
Regev concludes her speech and joins Sheila Adler, chair of the Exceptions Committee, for a first meeting with the committee itself. In the conference room, legal advisers from government ministries gather, names from an Excel spreadsheet are projected on a screen, and requests are discussed. She thanks everyone for their determination and professionalism. public suffered. emotional flooding is evident in everyone who took to heart the news 12 the last two weeks.
"I wanted to thank them after all the muck spend on them," she explains exit.
If I did not see how the Commission operates, and that is the first time there, I would not believe .
"Did you hear what Deri said?
That he would not take the job because of what they do to me.
After all, Steinitz was in charge, followed by Akunis.
I'm not running away from responsibility.
And when we have a political round in the media, I will say - keep talking to yourself. "
So what's really your connection to the committee?
" Exceptional cases are passed on to me.
To date only one case has been transferred, which is related to euthanasia.
I thought of one thing, an appeal was filed to Minister Hanegbi, who ruled otherwise. "
Your media image is not good.
" We are delegitimizing a figure named Miri Regev.
Look at how Shelly Yachimovich, Zehava Galon and Merav Michaeli were treated.
They are considered assertive and I am loud.
Why?
"Because they are from the left or because they are from another DNA?" It's like the difference between a barbecue and a barbecue. "
You're doing provocations.
If we stay in the same meaty world, you bring steak to the studio.
"Provocation is part of the message. Otherwise you do not penetrate the media or the consciousness. If you want to convey a message of social justice, explain the gap between the first and second Israel, how do you do it? By smashing symbols that show the years of exclusion of the Mizrahis, of the second Israel ".
So once it was Chekhov and now it's steak?
"It's the same defiance. The same symbols. If I talk about Ibn Gvirol, who should be as prominent on the shelf as Chekhov, it will be boring. As a high school graduate, I clearly read Chekhov, and in the steak I chose because it flips. "That he will choose him. Saar arrives, they sign him immediately. Maybe that's a virtue for failure at all," she laughs.
"In the end you come to a show where everything is anti-bibi and anti-Likud. Enough, a bit of fairness. The reporters have become part of a political agenda. They have broadcast time and a screen to influence the public. You watch the show and it's always the same. What, really not "Nothing good to say about the Likud? I respect our dignity, and the media continues to look for messiahs on the left."
Does the disparaging attitude towards you in the studios serve you?
"The public does not like to be despised by its representatives. On a personal level, they do not know who I am. In personal meetings with me, they are fascinated and they are my friends, but I represent something that annoys them. Doing, values and Mizrahi are proud."
Rina is also successful in the East.
"But Rina forgot where she came from, she must serve the publisher's agenda, freedom of expression ends there."
The speaker receives a message that in a special broadcast on Women's Day Galit Distell Atbrian said she sees Miri Regev's leadership as a model. Miri calls Galit "Thank you.
What do you think of Galit's armor? She is your character?
" The Likud understood that it needed figures who were connected to the field, and represented the Likud DNA. This is great armor in my eyes. "
The Likud DNA is Mizrahi?
”Does not have to be.
It includes loyalty mostly.
Galit's hard work will begin now, sitting with activists and the field, it's fun but it's also very intense. "
Regev started her career in the Likud on the women's square, but very quickly shattered the glass ceiling of the Ashkenazi men's party and is used to being among the party's opening quintet.
15:00
Hadera Port, inauguration ceremony Towing
according to maritime tradition, a woman breaks a bottle of champagne on the bow of a new ship before sailing it for the first time, Momo, the port captain, explained in advance to the Minister of Transportation. Dozens of Hadera port workers greeted her excitedly. Likud activists from Or Akiva and the surrounding area, as well as other workers, most of whom she knows by their first names.
In every such event, there is a symbolic message for Women's Day that glorifies the abilities of the stronger sex, and a blessing for the important day that is approaching in huge strides: "Bennett and Saar impersonate the right, do not be tempted to believe them. Only Netanyahu can."
Regev's team is pressed to reach the next destination, but she climbs on board in stiletto heels and hears a comprehensive explanation as on one side the chimneys of Hadera and on the other the sea.
You talk all the time about a right-wing government, but the Likud is a party that has signed more evictions than any other party.
"Netanyahu broke that equation. He changed history. He made peace for peace with the emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and there is a lot in line if only they would give it to him."
But you personally were part of the evacuation in Gush Katif, for many people you are identified with him.
"Not personally. I was in the position as part of the army, you do not want a soldier in the IDF to say that he does not protect settlements in Judea and Samaria because it is against the dictates of his conscience, I was then part of the army and I am in politics to make sure evacuation." "He did serious damage to the army, to security, to the people. This is a trauma. And there is currently no party that works for sovereignty and builds settlement more than the Likud. Look what an achievement Netanyahu brought from Trump."
But sovereignty did not happen, you missed a gym class.
"We got the statement, but there were a lot of delays by the Americans with the maps. It will happen again."
How will it happen?
The US administration has changed.
"If there is a chance that this will happen, it is only with Netanyahu."
But that did not happen with Netanyahu.
"With whom will this happen? With Saar? Bennett? With Lapid who wants to evacuate 90,000 people from Judea and Samaria?
The prime minister, in spite of everything, built.
And in those ten months, I have done de facto sovereignty on the roads of Judea and Samaria: bypassing Huwwara, Luban, Hizma. Projects that were stuck for years. "
Our conversation is interrupted by a phone call from the head of the Samaria Regional Council, who announces to Miri Regev that she has won the Dear Samaria Prize.
The ceremony will take place next week.
"Not everyone wins this award," he explains to her.
Miri is excited and demonstrates live how much she works for the settlement, sharp, prominent and appreciated.
16:00 |
BIG Hadera The
malls are coming back to life just in time.
In the parking lot of Big Hadera, activists are waiting with "sick" and boxing flags, and in the distance the anthem is played: "Go tell everyone that you are Miri Regev and you do not knock an account // ... everyone knows that you are a nice man."
The piyyut will also accompany us at the following stations, including a special house in Arabic - an expanded edition of the 24th Knesset.
Sellers at the stalls hand out her chips, corn cobs, ice cream.
Regev keeps his appetite for dinner with the activists in the evening.
Where did the courtship of the Arab voice come from?
"As Minister of Sports, I transferred budgets and resources to the Arab sector. Now there is disillusionment in Arab society, because the left spoke of fraternity and did not name money and the partnership nurtured the Palestinian narrative and did nothing for Israeli Arabs who were captives of the left, for years. That it is possible otherwise. "
You embrace that voice but condemn Bennett and right.
"Bennett should have said he would sit down with Netanyahu."
But with Bennett in Netanyahu's pocket, Netanyahu despises Bennett.
"Netanyahu does not belittle anyone. He is a polished leader, understands the limitations of democracy and the limits of power."
Why did Netanyahu not keep his right in the unity government?
"Because Levant jumped to Bennett, he fired into the ADF.
Netanyahu gave him important offices, security, justice. "
This was in the previous round. What did you do about the High Court?
"We did not have enough power. Ayelet Shaked was the Minister of Justice and unfortunately did nothing. I was in the market when I saw judges being appointed faster than they do a hot dish. Nissenkorn and his animals are judges very quickly."
She was not a justice minister all your years in power, before that you appointed Livni and elected Shai Nitzan.
"You make professional appointments, you do not make political appointments. These are people who grew up in the system and at the end of the day it turns out that they are officials. The method that court judges are elected by a committee needs to be changed.
"The only ones who represent the people are the Knesset and the ministers."
It is impossible to be in power for so long and blame others.
"If we got 45 seats in each election we could appoint whoever we wanted, but there is no decision in the people, and when you do not get the power make coalitions and release cases."
Maybe you just do not know how to control?
"No, this is a problem of the method.
It does not allow you to form a government unless you have coalitions.
After all, even if you bring in 50 seats, the big parties pay a high price to the small parties that blackmail them.
In the end the majority gives up in favor of the minority. "
Which method do you prefer?
" There is a direct choice, districts, the English or American method.
Today, the system disables the ability of the Prime Minister and party influence on substantive issues. So ultimately if we can get with "the big Shas with 61 seats and society - we can bring about big changes."
18:00 | restaurant in Ramat Yishai
What is most difficult to Miri Regev in the campaign? She can not cuddle with activists. She should not say, see it. According to the rules of the green mark, only activists who are approved in advance and vaccinated, about 200 people sit around tables. People from Karmiel, Al-Carmel Medal, Haifa, Zarzir "Everyone who wants to know what Miri Regev did in the Ministry of Transportation," the mayor of Zarzir spoke to the following, "who will come to see the roads in Zarzir's house. .
A development we have never seen before. "Sushi, egg rolls and chickens with a lot of sauce are served in silver trays on white tablecloths.
Regev prepared a special speech:" In the 1970s, they only watched black-and-white television.
Not because of a technological gap, but because of the erasure.
Ben-Gurion and Mapai wanted to prevent the rich, who could afford the expensive color television, from taking advantage of the poor, who had no money for color television.
So they did an erasure, which erased the color in the broadcasts.
But the rich had anti-erasure.
When Begin came to power, he said 'No, everyone will see the world in colors'.
This is what Bennett and Saar are trying to do today - to erase the identity of the right.
Gideon Saar is hostile around the tables. People see his actions as a betrayal and are sure that the Likud will continue to grow stronger and Saar will continue to decline. "This is a man who was our flesh and blood," an activist from Karmiel explains to me. "He came to the movement
's bar mitzvah
, ran in the primaries and then Went out and got dirty on us.
His door to the Likud has closed, and it is a door that turns only in one direction. "
On the way to the next destination, I am already with Shani Paracetamol, Regev as after Shatz, only she just finished" Congratulations for your birthday "talks with activists and also concluded in which studios "Ordinary people drink coffee to wake up," she says, "Israel II" and it fuels her.
Did you try to talk to Gideon Saar? You used to be friends.
"No.
What do I have to talk to him about.
When Saar said 'I do not want Miri Regev in my party'?
I represent the Likudniks who until six months ago asked for their support.
"He spits in the face of the Mizrahi, represents the first Israel, the leftists who want to continue working for the High Court and separate religion and state. It is the same left that was formerly democratic and only then Jewish."
And what are you?
"I was first a Jew and only then a Democrat."
Doesn't the partnership with the ultra-Orthodox knock you out for a long time?
"Remember what Tzipi Livni said about them and what she did behind her back. There is no government without Shas and an association.
Need to cooperate.
The incitement against them is terrible.
The attempt to turn them into machinists and budget seekers is inappropriate in a society that needs to give representation to the parties that vote for them.
At the end of the day, we can lead them to economic, security and national aspects. "
20:30 | Migdal Haemek
the conferences where we opened the article, Regev leads.
"The prime minister has given me the vision of these conferences because I know what is worthwhile and where and how."
Her speech on stage is a combination of stand-up and a performance by a popular rabbi.
The crowd is flooded.
"Dear audience, welcome the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Mrs. Sarah Netanyahu";
"Where are the palms, where is the energy";
"Wow, how much love there is here";
"To you, Prime Minister, to you, Mrs. Netanyahu."
The mythical Likud jingle in the background, senior party figures on stage, Miri narrates the enthusiasm and the audience stands up as if Haim Yavin had already declared 40 seats for the Knesset in the 2021. Election.
Before the microphone passes to Netanyahu, Regev orders those gathered to take a page Ten people and do not drink coffee until they make sure that all ten come to the polls to vote for the Likud.
If Israel rolls to the fifth election. Will you draw conclusions?
"No.
Netanyahu is the most worthy of them all.
These are not forces, after all, a prime minister at his level in front of everyone else. "
23:00 | Road 6
on Miri's Facebook Title: "Cities?"
The minister goes live.
Within minutes thousands of fans joined.
00:00 |
Rosh HaAyin
Before dispersal, the team closes with the minister the schedule for tomorrow, which, as stated, is only an indication. The minister wants to add more meetings along the way.
