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Between Netanyahu and Bennett and Lapid: In a parallel world, Ganz would enter the Prime Minister's Office today

The defense minister may not be sitting in the office he wanted to be in on November 17, but people around him are trying to convey how much he is fired from his post, and unlike the opposition chairman, he is at least manning a senior government office. If you do not materialize

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Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 06:55

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In the video: Ganz submits to the government the proposal to a committee of inquiry into the submarine affair (Photo: Ministry of Defense)

At 10:00 a.m., the plenum opened, and the designated prime minister took the floor to present his new government. He looked at the outgoing prime minister, who was still sitting in his traditional chair, and thanked him for his cooperation. "It's finally coming! For two days they have not been able to compliment each other," Maariv reported the next day. A few hours later, the Knesset approved the new government by a large majority, and the new and outgoing prime minister was replaced in their seats. The new prime minister's wife, who looked excitedly at the inauguration from the stands, told reporters: "I certainly had doubts about the very existence of the rotation, but thank God - we have arrived!".

Thus, for the first and last time in the history of Israel, a rotation agreement for the formation of a unity government was implemented, on October 20, 1986, when Prime Minister Shimon Peres handed over the baton to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.

In a hypothetical world, today, November 17, 2021, the second rotation was supposed to materialize.

Bnei Gantz was to become prime minister and Benjamin Netanyahu was to become the deputy prime minister, in a model based on the patriarchs, Peres and Shamir. , November 17 will be remembered as "Trick and Stick Day," and the day Gantz almost became prime minister, but no.

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The vigorous efforts to convince that today is not important to him, raise suspicion that the opposite is true.

Ganz (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Ganz and his entourage have tried very hard in recent days to downplay the significance of this day for him.

It's behind him, they explained, it does not matter to him, they added, another day.

In general, since the transfer of the state budget at the beginning of the month, the general line of blue and white has been to glorify how the former prime minister is fired from his position as defense minister and is satisfied with the government. Exit in courtship and seduction of the ultra-Orthodox and the Likud).

Netanyahu used the budget to evade the rotation agreement, and the weak and immature blue and white was dragged into the prank and dragged it forward with the "Hauser compromise"; The budget was a kind of amendment for Ganz and his party members, a small victory over the Likud and the ultra-Orthodox, and a lesson in honoring agreements: November 17, the day Ganz was supposed to become prime minister, but in retrospect, the moment Netanyahu violated the agreement with him, was the moment he lost power. . The ultra-Orthodox, who were supposed to be the guarantors of Netanyahu's credibility, were also punished with exile to the opposition.

The wide smiles on his face after the budget was approved, which replaced the sour face that became his trademark in the early days of the Bennett-Lapid government, told it all.

The acidity strategy did its thing, as did the occasional leaks about the courtships of the Likudniks and the ultra-Orthodox - Ganz wins a place of honor around the cabinet table and almost everyone is very careful not to hurt his ego.

Now he has moved on to a mode of stateliness and responsibility.

Yesterday, at a conference of the kibbutz movement, he said that "this government is an asset."

Even if on November 17, 2021 he does not enter the Prime Minister's Office, he believes that his day will come. In the meantime, this government allows him to stand out much more than under his partner Netanyahu.

Had he stayed in Balfour he would probably have been bitter and paralyzed Gantz.

Netanyahu (Photo: TPS, Shalom Shalom)

One of his associates explained this week that precisely when Gantz looks at the difficulties Naftali Bennett is now experiencing - a prime minister from a small party, lacking power and influence over party leaders and ministers in his government - he understands "what if" the rotation really materialized and what he had to deal with. Netanyahu, the alternate prime minister, would have stayed in Balfour, and would most likely have embittered and paralyzed Gantz's life, crushing with the majority of his bloc the pernicious understandings that protected Gantz's bloc, which was about a third of its size.

To all this we will add Miri Regev, who was destined to move to the Foreign Ministry in the rotation exchange, with his face set for the primaries of the next election, and Gabi Ashkenazi, and his political aspirations at the time, would take over as defense minister. Under these conditions, even if Ganz had become prime minister, it is not certain that it would have been such a great pleasure. "Lucky he's not become prime minister!", Said the insider, "he has oversight from above." It's just that the vigorous efforts to convince him that he has progressed and how unimportant this day is to him, raise a slight suspicion that the truth is actually the opposite.

After all, in the hypothetical world, Ganz would sit today on the throne of the Prime Minister's Office, where Bennett sits today, and where, probably even before him, Yair Lapid will sit. In their daily routine, it seems that the foreign minister and the defense minister have managed to put behind them the ugly year they went through after the dismantling of the cockpit, and work side by side relatively in harmony.

In most major conflicts on the government's agenda, they find themselves on exactly the same side of the barricade, and therefore also predispose to many stings and credit battles, but Ganz's quarrels are mostly with Meretz and Merav Michaeli, and Lapid is not satisfied with the grievances coming from his left.

At the same time, the charged past, the competition of the present and the future for the same audience in the central bloc are a sure recipe for renewed tension between the two, as the next rotation date approaches.

August 27, 2023 is the date on which Lapid is due to enter the Prime Minister's Office.

Ganz, apparently, would not be very sorry if even this rotation did not replicate the success of the Peres-Shamir model.

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