A day and a half after the press conference organized by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, which seemed more like a presentation of tips and recommendations than the words of a leader to whom an entire country needs to look, the whole event can be summed up in one word: disconnection.
The prime minister is cut off from the public and fails to influence and sweep it away, the government is cut off from its head, and parts of it are really underestimating efforts to deal with the plague.
Bennett gave the entire repertoire, and when I say repertoire I mean outdated recommendations and explanations: try to work from home, try to wear masks, and of course the cover for that hit of Netanyahu: "From all over the world call to ask."
But this was not the culmination of the disconnection.
He came up with some of the journalists' questions.
Ofer Hadad, a News 12 journalist, really came prepared with his triple question for the winter, and it included three very, very important inquiries: "You decide on a green sign in malls - and at the last minute a U-turn. A toddler like the color of the character, or worse, change their mind according to appearance? ";
"You call for vaccinating children, and then we find out that the Minister of Education refuses to mobilize the education system, to say the least";
"You ask the citizens of Israel not to fly abroad, and then your family flies to the Maldives.
Sir, what is the public supposed to understand? "
PM Bennett: "The time we bought is running out - the omicron is already in the country."
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Bennett could address the three questions, choose to answer two as conveniently, and even settle for one.
But it took a few seconds, and then an answer was no less astonishing at its level of disconnection: "The government of Israel, this government is acting exceptionally ... a government that has taken a country from a spin of elections and more elections ... not passing a budget ..."
What is the public supposed to understand?
A press conference has its own rules, and a journalist who asked can not stand still and answer "Sorry sir, what did I ask and what did you choose to answer?"
I will try to answer Ofer Hadad: Our prime minister himself is in a spin.
His coalition members enacted special laws to prevent the Corona Cabinet from being absent.
His education minister, according to reports, is sabotaging the children's immunization effort, but he can not comment.
And about his family?
She, too, tweeted the father's recommendations and flew to upload photos from the Maldives.
We were told that Bennett is happy, that since he has no "base" that he is bound to and therefore it is good.
What has not yet come out of the plethora of trumpets and Alpine funds instructed in the media, is really stressful: the man is simply disconnected.
Sorry, I'll put it this way in the positive way we got used to: Bennett is disconnected, so it's good.
This is how he manages to concentrate on the reality he wants to produce.
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