At the end of the civil year,
the Negev began.
Somehow his enlistment in the IDF passed relatively quietly, and it may not be a coincidence that you did not hear about it too much. From Be'er Sheva to the Glilot junction, even then there was no shade of a strawberry leaf, the precious area on which the best minds in the army sit would be sold to realtors.
But decades have passed before this became a clear reality, and only now has the contract been signed for the establishment of the "Likit" intelligence complex - by the way, a rather strange name for a corps base from which every leak is a disaster.
In any case, the Intelligence Campus will be built on 2,500 dunams, just "five minutes from Be'er Sheva," but in the opposite direction from the Air Force Museum in Hatzerim - east, opposite the luxury town of Omar, and only a minute from the cheap town of Kia.
Okay, most people will say, so another base is moving south, what's the matter?
Well, if we put it a little differently, we can say that in the coming years a new city the size of Mitzpe Ramon will be built between Be'er Sheva and Kakia, only three times as much.
Are you interested now?
15,000 intelligence personnel are supposed to make their way south, which is a big deal. But this matter is also the reason for the slight delay of several decades in moving south. I used to wonder at this hostel what would have happened if Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi had received an order to attack the nuclear facilities in Iran but refused to implement it, since in his opinion the best pilots in the Air Force have no real desire to take off, if not from Tel Nof or Sde Dov. Probably something in the runways in the south is "inaccurate to them." Does that make sense to you? Well, this is the main reason why for many years it was delayed and smeared beyond the bases. The intelligence personnel "did not come" to move to the Negev or go down to the south, it just did not suit them this southern section, unless it was a flood trip or a safari trip in the development towns.
I hear the insurgents
say oh, you southerners are always complaining, here soon the bulldozers will start working, and in a few years the space pioneers and cyberspace will start arriving, and in ten to twenty years roof, all the intelligence people will come south on a train built especially for them. Then what do you want? Other than that, do not forget that the government has pledged NIS 1.3 billion as adaptation grants, and you southerners will be sure and confident that a few pennies from these shekels will find their way as a tip to car wash engineers, falafel CEOs and other woodcutters and water cutters, so be happy!
And it is still not clear to me why the government has to pay so much money to persuade the intelligence soldiers to carry out a military order. What do you mean, immigration experts tell me, it's hard to move south. Do not forget that these are the people of Hod and Hasharon who got used to the Cebus restaurants in the Herzliya Valley. And how will the spies leave the garlic zucchini on a bed of onions smelling of soot and green village corks? How can the best of minds feed themselves and find proper sourdough bread in Be'er Sheva? And what will their wives or husbands do? How will they settle for Beersheba salaries? And what about their children if they need an appointment with a specialist doctor in less than three months? In general, how will the children fit in without undergoing a regional adjustment and learning a new language?
Well gentlemen, the experts are right. The problem is not with the completely sane demands of the intelligence people. The problem is indeed in the well-being salaries. And so, all the government has to do is a very simple thing. To transfer only the bases of this unique and sensitive human intelligence and human capital is not enough. At the same time, the government must pass the law "Minimum wage close to the average wage in Kfar Shmaryahu," equalize the number of doctors per capita between the south and Tel Aviv in the ordinance, and require that the education budget in Lakia always be one shekel more than that of Hod Hasharon. The Authority for the Transfer of the IDF to the South will also take care of transferring Edna, Celia and Reviva and all other supporters of the intelligence war to Be'er Sheva. At the same time, it will distribute adaptation grants to all residents of the Negev for complaints and excavations of the new guests, with the addition of a grant for lack of sea, and a 13-salary bonus for raising the cost of living that will increase here due to intelligence indulgences.
And this is already a real problem, because if the real estate speaks intelligence and the salaries in Be'er Shevait - a lot of southerners will fall. "But we miss the city." In the original, don't we also deserve some adaptation grant for this stupidity?
Simultaneously with the transition of the VIPs
of the intelligence personnel, in recent years there has also been a significant movement of individuals and families who are simply moving from the center to the periphery.
When I asked one of those immigrants why she chose to move south, she replied: "I was tired of not sleeping at night because of the light rail work, and looking for parking between the excavations, and And especially to sleep at night. '
These are the new Zionists, people moving south not to blossom an ancient and mostly imaginary wilderness, but to live a more relaxed life.
You meet the new grades on the days of preparing for kindergarten, supervising children in the city parks, and especially every morning on the train platform to Tel Aviv. This load tells what the numbers do not know how to say. This change has many faces, and its signs are evident everywhere and in the past, but it is time for some of the periphery's breadwinners to make a change in their attitude towards the locals compared to the new immigrants.
Every resident of the periphery knows the parable of the garbage can. A neighborhood resident who notices that garbage is piling up next to his house will ask the local authority to add more trash. Somehow it always stays as "we'll take care of it sometime" with a level of credibility of "your conversation is important to us." But as soon as one of the new scores indicates that "a garbage can is missing here," the local authority will immediately recover and the garbage can will be installed, since there are residents, and there are new residents from the center.
The periphery does not always believe in itself and its people. I mean, she's full of authentic pride, and she's here to tell a 'new story' in spoken southern, and there is no more 'eat me drink me', because we have all learned to speak in an empowering coach, but behind all the NLP and Vajras, lies the great fear that the Zionists The newcomers who immigrated here will see something that will frighten them so much that they will immediately flee and return to the central area. How should the local feel when he sees the local authority chasing after every couple and family from the central area, and the absorption department that promises to turn the desert into a sea and do everything in its power to allow the difficult passage, but if any locals turn to the authority for help The sigh and sigh "it will be all right."
I generalize, of course, and yet, even as early as 2022, many and good of the periphery's earners have not internalized that there is no need to dress up and hide who and what we are.
And the thing that attracts the best human capital from the outside is simply internal human capital and the joy of life, and in this capital it is worth investing.
Remember the days when you were a tourist and you came to a foreign place.
Hunger strikes you in the middle of a street where there are two restaurants, one empty and in the doorway all the workers are standing, looking at you with blank eyes and signaling to you with their hand come, come, come, while in the other restaurant no one notices the tourists, and everyone inside is busy coming, dancing on the tables And break plates.
Which restaurant will you enter?
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