Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid are keeping their coalition strong these days.
Bennett has asked his partners more than once or twice, in closed rooms and in public, to postpone all "hot potatoes" until the success of the government's overarching task - the transfer of the budget.
A task that, if it fails, will overthrow the government.
The effort of the two to maintain industrial quiet in a formidable coalition.
Bennett is not ready to comment on Gideon Saar's "Netanyahu Law" until after the budget, MKs were asked not to hold interviews just for no purpose and an accurate message sheet so as not to get involved, Meretz MKs released steam on construction in Judea and Samaria but received hints to settle In protest and stop. And Yair Lapid is willing to absorb any disgrace, recording or statement that boils the political blood, just to go over the budget and get to the rotation. But Bnei Gantz? He has his own agenda.
Bennett: "The opposition is preparing for the Great Pike Week" / Photo: Ariel Kahana
Exactly five years have passed since the submarine affair came into the world.
For the ordinary citizen, diving into the midst of this affair is similar to diving into the midst of the Harpaz affair.
It is difficult to define the submarine affair as a burning event in the bones of the general public.
But for the political system it is an explosive.
Right-wingers have previously opposed the investigation into the submarine issue, with the issue coming up on the agenda.
Although Bennett asked not to deal with the explosives, Bnei Gantz decided to announce the submission of a proposal to establish a commission of inquiry into the government secretariat.
This is not a decision of another party such as the attorney general or the court to which Gantz should respond.
This is Gantz's own initiative to flood the issue, would the Israeli public have been able to fall asleep if the "dramatic" announcement to the Cabinet Secretariat had been received next Sunday, after the budget?
It is likely.
But Benny Ganz chose to flood the issue two days before the budget.
Why?
Because Benny Ganz does not count Naftali Bennett.
He can not act like a big boss, a strong prime minister who sets the agenda.
It does not have the political power to do so.
Today (Sunday) a survey was published by Direct Falls according to which Bennett does not exceed the blocking percentage at all.
Bennett does not go to the prime minister's office like he does, he does not have the public back for it, he has his political friends who gave him the prime minister's chair he owes them.
And they?
They don't really owe him.