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For now, it seems that the "just not Bibi" bloc exercise has managed to surprise and garner praise. However, in the tortuous history of Israeli politics, it is difficult to predict whether a political move will end in success or failure. From the Ben-Gurion government to Shamir and Peres - what a successful exercise and what a hoax


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From the brilliant exercise to the stinking exercise: the history of the political exercises in Israel

For now, it seems that the "just not Bibi" bloc exercise has managed to surprise and garner praise.

However, in the tortuous history of Israeli politics, it is difficult to predict whether a political move will end in success or failure.

From the Ben-Gurion government to Shamir and Peres - what a successful exercise and what a hoax

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Eli Ashkenazi

Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 22:14 Updated: 22:15

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Will be remembered as a symbol of the political exercise of the "just not Bibi" bloc. Gideon Saar winks during the vote in the Knesset plenum (Photo: screenshot, Knesset channel)

Gideon Saar's wink yesterday behind the prime minister's back will surely be remembered as a symbol of the political exercise that the "just not Bibi" bloc, which managed to surprise the prime minister and his entourage.

But in the tortuous history of Israeli politics are remembered at least two political exercises that purported to surprise and succeed - which ended in the scorching failures of those who brewed them.



It seems that the most famous political exercise in the history of Israeli politics is the same exercise that is remembered as the "stinking exercise."

Originally, there was supposed to be a move that would bring about political change, which would succeed in overthrowing the government headed by Yitzhak Shamir and bringing Shimon Peres to the coveted position.



Peres and Shamir were already after four years of government, between 1984-1988, in which they rotated in the positions of prime minister.

Despite the tension that prevailed between them, the two recorded several achievements during that period of cooperation with the meteor that took off in the skies of Israeli politics - 29-year-old Interior Minister Aryeh Deri.

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The "stinking exercise" was supposed to lead to the overthrow of the government headed by Yitzhak Shamir.

Shamir and Peres (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Deri assured Peres 'team that after convincing Agudat Israel members to overthrow the Shamir government, Shas would be next in line and join Peres' government. On March 15, 1989, the government did fall into a no-confidence vote, and was now scheduled to carry out the second phase of the exercise.



The deal was already closed, but by then a first mine had sprung up - Rabbi Shach, the leader of Degel HaTorah, came out with a severe attack on the leftist camp and especially on the kibbutzniks whom he called "rabbit eaters and pigs." Shas, then a party in its infancy, was under the auspices of Shach, and its leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef understood that he could not act contrary to his position. This could have harmed Sephardic students who studied in Ashkenazi yeshivas and would have led to the dissolution of Shas.



In his book "Aryeh Deri" Aryeh Nir describes an event that illustrates how the political wheel turned following the speech of "Rabbits and Pigs": MK Moshe Shachal from the formation, who was in the secret of the political exercise, spoke with Deri and inquired about the content of Rabbi Shach.

"Don't worry," Deri replied.

"But his heart foretold him evil," Nir writes in his book;

Shahal called Deri and heard from him that he was now making his way to Rabbi Shach.



Shahal demanded: "I want to know, will you vote for Peres?". Deri took an old ploy: "We do not hear", he shouted. Shahal insisted: "Give me the The phone number where she will be. "But Deri continued:" You can't hear. "Finally the call was cut off in Shahal's face. He went to Bnei Brak and searched for Deri, but without success. Finally he reported it to Peres, who still believed he would form a government.

Deri filled only one tin part with Peres.

Aryeh Deri, Yitzhak Shamir and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (Photo: Reuven Castro)

And as usual, when business gets complicated, the whites begin to fall off the wall: MKs Avraham Verdiger and Eliezer Mizrahi of Agudat Israel found it difficult to join their party's move. In the autobiographical book about Shimon Peres, "Like the Phoenix", Michael Bar-Zohar writes that it was the Rebbe of Lubavitch who instructed them not to support the Peres government.



Therefore, Peres asked his friend the reserve general and former head of the Armed Forces, Shlomo Gazit, who was in Washington for study, to travel to meet with the Rebbe in New York. "You will not find in Israel two people whose contribution to Israel's security is so great," It is conceivable that these two would be invalid and considered unbelievable in your eyes! "



But the Rebbe did not relent, and expressed his anger that" holy youths "had been evicted from a house they had invaded in the Old City of Jerusalem. Gazit explained to him that it was the Likud government that did so. Better in my eyes? "The Rebbe asked." At that moment Gazit was pushed out.It was the most humiliating class he went through in his life, "Bar-Zohar writes in his book.

Ordered not to support the Peres government.

Rabbi Shach (Photo: Government Press Office)

After being disappointed with Agudat Israel, Peres' team began recruiting a new supporter from among the Shamir bloc.

It was Avraham (Abrasha) Sharir, a member of the Likud liberal faction.

Sharir was tempted to cross the lines in exchange for the transportation portfolio and armor on the Knesset list for two terms.

But - "Abrasha, home again," exclaimed the excited Shamir, and Abrasha returned.



The Labor Party also hoped that they would succeed in forming a government, even though they already understood that two MKs from Agudat Israel would be absent from the vote.

A few hours before the Knesset convened to swear in as prime minister, Shimon Peres arrived at Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's house, requesting that two Shas MKs support him. The rabbi promised that this would be the case. But shortly before the vote, Deri announced that this was impossible. Burner; the vote was not held and the festive sitting was dispersed.

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President Haim Herzog granted the award an extension of an additional 15 days. This time it was MK Yitzhak aware duty scales courting Peres and Shamir. Peres believed that he could convince aware he left the Likud with three other friends, to support a narrow government led.



Political wheeling and reached a record low, and conditions created aware could have needed to save In addition to his appointment as finance minister, there is also a financial guarantee to secure the agreement with him. Modai remains with Shamir - who even managed to "steal" the award of MK Ephraim Gur from his party - in exchange for a promise to be deputy minister and win a reserved seat in the Likud.



That tumultuous month of dubious political deals has caused great anger among the Israeli public. They were followed by a large demonstration under the slogan "Corrupt, tired" and the "Movement for the Quality of Government in Israel". Shortly afterwards, Yitzhak Rabin defined the same chain of events as the "stinking exercise," a name that stuck with that move.

Left with Shamir in exchange for a promise to be a deputy minister and win an armored seat in the Likud.

Yitzhak Modai (Photo: Creative Commons)

But Rabin himself also signed two political exercises;

The first of which was in 1977, in the twilight of his first term as prime minister.



On December 10, 1976, the first three F-15s purchased from the United States were to land in Israel.

3,000 people were invited to a ceremony at the air force base in Hatzor to witness the landing of the planes.

Chief of Staff Gur said at the time that "the State of Israel and the IDF with the F-15 are a different country and another IDF," but the ceremony caused trouble for Rabin - the planes landed on Friday at 3:25 p.m. It was a delay of 25 Minutes, but only 52 minutes before Shabbat began. Even before the ceremony, religious officials approached the Prime Minister's Office and asked to cancel the ceremony for fear of desecrating Shabbat. They replied that everything would be done to prevent the desecration of Shabbat.



Four days after the planes arrived, a vote of no confidence in the government was held in the Knesset. The two NRP ministers abstained from voting. Rabin announced that he saw this as their resignation and at the same time announced that he was resigning and going to the polls. In the same election, the political upheaval took place, and the Likud led by Menachem Begin came to power. It



took Rabin 15 years before he managed to return to the prime minister's chair. However, during the leadership of the Oslo Accords, Rabin got into trouble in the face of Shas' resignation from his government following Deri's investigations and the resignation of two MKs from his party. In order to establish his coalition, he added to it three Knesset members who had previously resigned from Rafael Eitan's Tzomet party,In exchange for the appointment of Gonen Segev as Minister and Alex Goldfarb as Deputy Minister.

Signed two political exercises. Yitzhak Rabin (Photo: Government Press Office, Saar Yaakov)

Once again, as in the temptations that Peres and Shamir showered on Knesset members during the stinking exercise, the generous political honors given to the arteries received harsh public criticism. The well-known claim from this period is that Goldfarb supported the Oslo II agreements because of the Mitsubishi vehicle that was put in his position as deputy minister.



A successful political exercise from the more distant past can be attributed to Levy Eshkol. This happened after the fifth Knesset elections in August 1961. The ruling party, Mapai, insisted that its ministers form a majority in the government. But its four natural coalition partners - Mapam, Labor Unity, National Religious and Liberal - formed a "square front" and opposed this condition. Mapai was already willing to compromise on equality in the division of portfolios between the party and its partners. Ben-Gurion protested and began to miss Mapai secretariat meetings and later returned to President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi the mandate he had given to form a government.



The president imposed the government train on Levy Eshkol, also from Mapai.

When he finished, he returned the baton to Ben-Gurion.

Only two and a half months after the election, the government was finally formed.

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