News 12 reported yesterday that tensions in the Prime Minister's Office are growing.
According to the publication, the person at the center of the storm in the coalition is Shimrit Meir, the commentator on Arab affairs who has become an adviser to Prime Minister Bennett.
According to sources in Bennett's office and in Minister Lapid's office, Meir is working to reduce others, is behind the leaks and determines Bennett's political strategy.
Only recently did Yaakov Bardugo reveal in "Israel Today" that relations within the important bureau in the country are deteriorating, mainly against the background of Meir's centrality.
On November 18, Bardugo wrote that the political adviser has in recent weeks become the closest figure to the prime minister, and that officials in the bureau say that she is also actively involved in working with the professional staff - including the National Security Council. For review and approval before distribution.
Adviser to the Prime Minister Bennett, Shimrit Meir, Photo: Arik Sultan
It is estimated that things have started to find expression on the political level as well.
Bardugo announced that without Meir's support, Bennett would not have given the green light to the trip of the chairman of Ram Mansour Abbas to a political meeting with the King of Jordan, and even to the trip of Minister Issawi Frij from Meretz to the Palestinian Authority donations conference in Oslo.
Earlier, on September 24, Bardugo revealed in this paper that veteran adviser Moshe Klugeft was also present because his influence on the prime minister was smaller than expected in light of Meir's centrality.
On the face of it, the Meir-Klugeft duo was supposed to be a professional pairing from heaven: he was supposed to shape the conscious-marketing-political line, and she was the political line.
In the reality that arose in the aquarium, however, the new consultant overtook the veteran in the degree of closeness to the boss.
Bennett Chamber's response: "The prime minister has full confidence in his political adviser in her talent and dedication.
Meir is working to advance the Prime Minister's policy-making, whether in building relations with the Biden government, with the Europeans, with Egypt, Jordan, the rapid resolution of the crisis with Turkey and more. These are six successful months on any scale, and we are proud of them. I'm not involved in politics. "
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