The "Galilee in the Center" conference was held today (Thursday) in Acre.
"We know how to act in Iran and Syria," said Justice Minister Gideon Saar.
"It is time to bring order to the home as well. Restoring the government and control of the state in places it lacks is an existential necessity."
He said, "We are working to toughen punishment for possession of weapons, expanding police search powers, an order to fight economic crime, and more and more. We are working on all fronts of legislation on a daily basis and prioritizing it over anything else in the legislature, because if we do not take control it will crash. "Israeli society from within. We know how to act in Iran and Syria in a precise and lethal way - it is time to put things in order at home. A dedicated team of ministers has been set up and a difficult and protracted struggle is expected, but we are determined."
Yair Golan, Deputy Minister of Economy and Industry, said: "We are going to invest together with the other government ministries - about one and a half billion shekels in Arab society."
He added: "We will invest in the development of industrial areas in the periphery, professional training, bringing manpower for placement and accompaniment year ahead, creating lucrative jobs, encouraging small and medium-sized businesses, learning Hebrew in the Arab society to remove barriers to integration in the labor market and more." Living in the periphery should earn more. "
Minister Nitzan Horowitz, Photo: Michel Dot Com
Nitzan Horowitz, the Minister of Health, promised: "We will invest NIS 650 million in strengthening health in Arab society."
He noted that "there are health disparities not only between the center and the periphery but also between Arabs and Jews and see this in a series of metrics. This must be corrected and what enabled the formation of this government is agreement on the need to focus on Arab society.
Amar Bar-Lev, Minister of Internal Security: "Crime on the Arab street did not grow out of nothing but was created from a long process of taking over crime families due to the State of Israel's neglect of Arab settlements and mixed cities.
He said, "Let's really admit, only when the violence of the crime families exceeded municipal boundaries and harmed Jewish society in the cities involved and everywhere in the country did everyone wake up. Crime must be tackled, and neglect and inequality must be corrected no less."
Bar-Lev added that "part of our mission is to hit the criminal organizations through the pocket. Beyond that, we are intensively carrying out a series of counterterrorism operations and raids on crime targets by the Israel Police in the Northern District and the Coast District.
It is a change of action patterns and priorities.
We do not allow ourselves for the violence to disappear tomorrow, but we will reduce it and address in-depth factors. "
Oded Forer, Minister of Peripheral, Negev and Galilee Development and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said for his part that "Avigdor Lieberman's Northern Shield plan, which was cut short as soon as we left the government, will come back to life and is already budgeted at NIS 5 billion in the new budget."
He said, "There will be a budget and a budget within which, in addition to the Northern Shield, two government decisions are reserved within the budget: a plan for the development of the Galilee and a plan for the development of the Golan. The days when ministers sit in Jerusalem Which has been proven recently around the corona crisis. Money will be, there were grandiose plans, but they were not realized by budget. "There will be an airport in the north. We are considering options for the location, but this government will do, unlike in the past - it will simply make decisions and take action."
Ilan Shochat, Director General of the Ministry of Peripheral, Negev and Galilee Development: "The budget of the Ministry of Peripheral, Negev and Galilee Development will be the highest budget in the ministry's history.
The ministry is sharply changing its direction and will be a comprehensive and dominant ministry that leads change-generating projects in the Negev and the Galilee.
These days, under the guidance of Minister Forer, we are formulating a proposal for resolutions for the Galilee, and the material that will be presented at today's conference will be a document and a tool for us to write the plan and submit it to the government. "