A huge and noisy drama shakes the Ministry of Education.
Do not let the messages of support for Education Minister Yifat Shasha Bitton, on behalf of her party chairman Gideon Saar and the replacement Prime Minister Yair Lapid (by the way, where is Bennett?), Mislead: it is much more than a backup.
It's a cover: they both cover it now, minimizing political damage that endangers both them - and the government.
And yes, it is also very much related to the new deputy minister who came in by surprise.
We'll get to that later.
The sudden dismissal of the director general of the Ministry of Education, Yigal Slovik, with some of his men, was immediate and humiliating - but they were not surprised by the senior ministry staff. Cabinet, and the CEO is committed to complying with government directives. The Ministry of Health has decided on an outline, the director general is urging her, local government is involved, the Home Front Command is in the picture - everything is managed according to the government's decision to start vaccinating schools. But the minister is mature: The minister, of the kind of incidents that dominate the atmosphere of terror in the corridors. From the beginning Shasha Bitton was not considered a group player in the struggle in Corona. Does not deny Corona nor demonstrates against vaccines,But as defined by a factor that has witnessed its functioning - it is the closest one can get to it at the top of public health decision-making.
So in the media she said this week: There will be no vaccines in schools, only outside them.
And the CEO said: I must uphold government decisions and stand up to the other parties beyond our ministry's control. His distress is clear: the minister demands that he act contrary to the government's decision, and does so with deafening shouts that raise the ceiling.
At this point it is already clear that there is no way out - the CEO will have to act fairly and submit his resignation. He asks her to allow him to leave with dignity, but she fires from moment to moment and forbids him and his people to enter the office.
The Ministry of Education estimates that Gideon Saar, who has known the ministry well since his time as Minister of Education, has taken command of managing the crisis.
Otherwise, it is difficult for them to explain how exactly on the same day that the CEO asked to submit his resignation - it was learned that Saar demands the appointment of his confidant, the Norwegian MK Meir Yitzhak Halevi, to the position of Deputy Minister of Education.
At the top of the ministry it is estimated that he was sent by Saar to supervise the minister, supervise and report to the boss.
Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Bitton and fired CEO Yigal Slovik, Photo: Gideon Markovich and Oren Ben Hakon
"I have no way of explaining to millions of parents in Israel why the Ministry of Education does not take care of ensuring the health of their children," the fired CEO was quoted as saying in News 12. These are harsh criticisms of the minister's conduct, indicating a deep and authentic crisis. - The warning lights are bright.
In the environment of the minister and in a new climax, Tikva was quick to accuse the whole world, and implicitly of the fired CEO and the facts, of spreading Pike News, slander and lies. Acting on his mission against the Minister.
The climax came when another employee, who was fired along with the CEO, told Yael Odem in News 12 that the minister hid critical data in cabinet discussions, especially if they might have required increased enforcement, destroying the success pictures of green classrooms and other "back to routine Corona" projects Bitton is invested in them.
Since her remarks were published she has been under tremendous psychological and emotional pressure, and whoever has spoken to her describes a shattered woman, whom all the major systems are recruited to present as the avenger Pike News.
Precisely she - whose whole life is devoted to the processing and accessibility of accurate empirical data for decision-makers - sees how her good name is trampled on to cover up their shortcomings.
Ministry of Education staff tell of an outstanding fact.
"Real genius," one of them told me, with a broad systemic understanding, who understands exactly the meaning of the data and knows exactly how "situation cuts" discussions are supposed to be conducted with the prime minister.
Precisely because of this, the sincere and authentic concern should bother us all: Has the Ministry of Health built its work plans based on partial data?
4 These are question marks that need urgent examination, and if there was a legal adviser in Israel who is not emotionally and professionally committed to the survival of the current government - he would order its opening without delay.
If for some of Mickey Zohar's trials it was possible to order the opening of a false and unnecessary investigation, then all the more so when there is a suspicion of the disappearance of critical information from the government in a time of crisis.
What constitutes a breach of trust more than that?
What is more dangerous to public health?
5 One of our eyes should now be open to the fired CEO, hoping he will not be offered a "comforting role" in exchange for silence. Another eye should be open to the new-old CEO, Dalit Stauber, returning to the Ministry of Education.
No, she was not "appointed" by Shasha Bitton.
She was probably sent urgently by Gideon Saar, the former boss, to make order and supervise the minister.
New Hope and Gideon Saar need no more shame - not in front of the public, and especially not in front of the government.
And this is the root of the matter: Shasha Bitton may become Saar's greatest trouble.
And to think that exactly a year ago he was proud of her as his number two, and promised that she would take his place if and when he conquered Balfour, just like Biden and Camel Harris.
Now he has to send two of his associates, his confidants, to babysit her on shifts.
Were we wrong?
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