At the anniversary of Ben-Gurion's death, Naftali Bennett repeated one of the conventions regarding the first prime minister: "He founded the idea of statehood. We have a duty to fortify it."
In popular propaganda today, the opposite of state is "political" or "personal motives," and other definitions designed to justify attacks on the Likud and the right in general in the name of "statehood."
To which department exactly do the dismissal attempts in the government ministries belong, and recently the effort of the Minister of Transportation, Merav Michaeli, to remove senior officials who came to their positions in a professional procedure that includes tenders? According to some of the trend coverage in the media, these were of course "political appointments" of the previous minister Miri Regev. These are Sheila Adler and Yaakov Netanyahu, who head key bodies in the Ministry of Transportation. But the intention of Minister Michaeli and the new top officials in the ministry to staff women in senior positions is purely political. If women professionals are at a high level it may be desirable; But the issue of transportation is too sensitive to fill positions in candidates who will owe their job to Sarah because of a lack of skills.
But the suspicion is that even in a seemingly professional office like the Department of Transportation, matters of policy are hiding behind layoffs and new appointments.
Shimon Peres, even before he reached the top, was the Minister of Transportation - and he also set a policy that was expressed in the statement: "Buses should be comfortable and spacious."
Very similar to Michaeli's policy: the temperatures in the air conditioner on the train should be raised.
All this probably means that "our appointments" are state-owned, and appointments from the days of the previous Likud regime are not state-run but political.
Michaeli refers to the postponement of the installation of the system for forgetting children (Archive)
What is amazing is that no matter how many times the ideology of the Labor Party has changed so much that no trace of it remains, yet the DNA of the ruling instinct remains as it was. It used to be part of a party apparatus with about 55 seats or 44, and today less than ten. Still, this natural sense.to enter the minister's office and immediately take over the apparatus.
In the distant past all kinds of transport, media or education policies were on the mind of how to tighten citizens' dependence on government, on government. Buds of this phenomenon could be seen in recent decisions regarding transport routes in Judea and Samaria or roads from the periphery.
Talk of "suitability" and "professionalism" can all but hide the intention to place political officials who will fulfill the new minister's intention to reverse the Likud's policy in the last decade.
The concern is a return to the days of investing in transportation infrastructure as a means of political sponsorship as if it were a benefit, as was once customary in paving roads to localities according to political affiliation.
Michaeli speaks with slogans - "We came to rescue Israel from the traffic jam."
Reminder: Between 2009 and 2019, the number of fatalities in accidents dropped from an average of about 450 fatalities per year to around 350 and even below, in a series of long years, with the number of cars on the roads constantly rising.
This indicates an amazing transportation revolution for Netanyahu, Katz and Regev.
As in the other areas - the advice to Michaeli: it is better not to touch.
