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Thanks to the years in the Northern Command and the support for farmers, plantations in the Galilee were maintained by Gantz Emunim
Although a bruise came on Election Day, in some localities in the Galilee blue and white won again - as it has been in all election rounds in the last two years.
The residents who have known Gantz since his time as commander in the area were not moved by the media image and credited him with listening to the needs of the farmers: "They finally saw us, after years of ignoring"
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2021 Elections
Bnei Gantz
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Galilee Panhandle
Metula
Eli Ashkenazi
Thursday, March 25, 2021, 10:15 p.m.
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The election campaign summary conference was held by Blue and White Chairman Bnei Gantz in a fruit packing house in Moshava Yesod HaMaala - the same packing house where the first blue and white election conference was also held in the 2019 elections. It seems that there, in the heart of plum, peach and apple orchards 250 supporters, he felt more popular than elsewhere.In
fact, in some localities in the Upper Galilee, the party headed by Gantz won all four elections in the past two years.Even in the 24th Knesset elections this week, Gantz came without most of his political partners in previous rounds. And when he was scarred and battered by the media and public opinion, in the Yesod HaMaala and Metula colonies and in Kibbutz Kfar Giladi - blue and white, the party still had the highest number of voters.
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Ganz at the graduation conference at Yesod HaMaala (Photo: Official website, Amir Shoshani)
"Many people from Metula and the surrounding area know him personally," said Amir Shoshani, a supporter of Ganz from Metula.
He mentions the periods when Gantz commanded the Lebanese liaison unit based in Metula and later when Gantz was commander of the Northern Command.
"My home is the outer homes in Metulla, right on the fence, when Ganz was GOC Northern Command knew dependable as well as defense minister," the source explained Shoshani his support for blue-white chairman.
He said, interpersonal acquaintance over the years, he I know a different person from Gantz's media image. "When I was a reserve officer and he was the commander-in-chief, I turned to him and he accepted me into his office in command," Shoshani recalled.
I was impressed by his humanity and his integrity. "
The same unmediated connection is also what brought Guy Ben-Dor from Yesod HaMa'ala to stand behind a blue-and-white chairman. Ben-Dor is a personal friend of Ganz and is considered "his man" in the north. There were many more in the area.
He is an exemplary figure and a man who acts with stateliness.
He is straight through, "he claimed," when you know him you see a very strong person, as opposed to an image they tried to infect him with. "
Indeed, activists who fight for a person they know and value personally are key to electoral achievement in their living environment.
But in Kfar Giladi Gantz has maintained the lead in all four of the last election campaigns, and this week he received 30% support - even though the activist who worked for him, Adv. Torah Schreiber, does not know him from the JNF or the command, in fact never met him.
Schreiber went through all the members of the economy and convinced them in all four rounds of the last election that Ganz is the person worthy of their vote.
"I took a mission and went with it to the end," she testified.
Like many members of the kibbutz movement, Schreiber supported the Labor Party for most of the year.
She said that when Gantz entered politics, and when blue and white arose, she saw the party as a continuation of the Labor Party she had always supported.
Ganz at the graduation conference at Yesod HaMaala (Photo: Official website, Amir Shoshani)
"Because my father was a Labor Party man, and because I have always supported the Labor Party, will I continue to vote for it automatically?" Schreiber asked.
"I was looking for a home port that sees the problems of the periphery and also of the State of Israel and I found in blue and white the Labor Party of yesteryear."
For her, the last year in which Gantz sat in government actually strengthened support for him.
"I was educated that in a situation where Israeli society is in an emergency or at war, you enlist and call for help and that is what Gantz did. I could not bear those who stood by and beat him. People died and he enlisted. If 60 people died on the border, the whole country would unite, and in Corona "6,000 people died," she added.
The key point: the voices of farmers
Those activists, who swept the support of Gantz and his party after them in their localities, emphasize the attention they showed in blue and white towards the periphery and towards agriculture and farmers.
"For 11 years the heads of the northern authorities have begged them to reopen the resilience centers that were established after the Second Lebanon War and closed several years later. No one addressed them until Gantz and Michael Bitton reopened them," Schreiber said.
"They are accessible and listen to us, not Tel Avivians as detached as the Labor Party has become," she added.
"The concluding conference that Gantz did in the North was a message. When you talk to them about water, agriculture, a line of confrontation - you know there is someone who understands you and treats you."
Minister of Agriculture Alon Schuster on tour in the north, June 2020 (Photo: Government Press Office, Gideon Sharon)
A farmer from Metula who asked not to be identified by name said things in a similar spirit. "Over the years I voted for the Labor Party, this time I supported Gantz because of gratitude: once he fought to the end and did not break, it strengthened my sense that he deserved to vote for him. I want people like him in politics and not extremists like Smutrich." He also said the tenure in the Ministry of Agriculture strengthened his support for the party, much more than the local acquaintance with the blue-and-white chairman. "Finally someone saw us, the farmers, after years of ignoring.
" "The attitude towards us in the Ministry of Agriculture was nothing and nothing." "We finally found an attentive ear and a professional team there," he added. "Shoshani and Ben-Dor also emphasized the fact that in the past year the Minister of Agriculture was a member of the Blue and White Party." "Alon Schuster managed to touch the farmer from Metula," said Shoshani, while Ben-Dor added that "the Minister of Agriculture walked around the area a lot and after years of ignoring, we felt that we were finally being treated. The state of agriculture is still difficult, but there was an atmosphere of change for the better. "
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