The extension of the Admissions Committees Law, which leads to the right and new hope, with the push of Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, is detrimental to Israeli society, and most of all - to the developing cities.
More than a decade ago, even before the approval of the original law, I was exposed to a conversation between women waiting for a class in Sderot.
They numbered dozens of Sderot families who tried to be accepted into the kibbutz extensions in the area and failed in the admissions committees.
It was not clear to them how excellent families received a red card in an attempt to join the neighboring localities.
When I intervened in the conversation and we put the points together, it was clear: the personal is the political.
The ability to filter and determine who your neighbors will be is a license to hurt and kill dreams, and for many years has served as a means of rejecting Orientals, Arabs, LGBTs, religious, single parents and anyone who is not "us."
The admissions committees were at the center of the civil society's struggle and the High Court's rulings, which forced limited legislation on the subject: only for localities up to 400 families and only in the Negev and Galilee. The Galilee and the Negev and allow for a "unique socio-cultural fabric." The yellow gate is closed to Arabs, but also to Mizrahis and others. While none of us has the privilege of determining who his neighbors will be To prevent the purchase of Ethiopians in neighborhoods in Kiryat Malachi, an attempt to prevent the entry of LGBT people into buildings ...), a legal seal was given to community settlements and kibbutz expansions in the Negev and Galilee to do so.
In 2011, Kadima, the largest faction in the Knesset, was the main driver of the Admissions Committees Law for Small Localities in the Galilee and the Negev, which was also unnecessary and offensive. In the current round, the right and a new hope are trying to expand the problematic mechanism to community localities of up to 600 families and to new areas in Israel such as Judea and Samaria. Even the "idealist" settlers want to filter and reject those who are not like them. This time the left is very clear in opposing the move, and rightly so. The Admissions Committees Act is an instrument of hatred, ignorance, racism and discrimination, and all this on the land that belongs to us all. While young people in Israel grit their teeth and have to pay 145 average salaries to buy an average apartment, there are those who get the tremendous power to decide who will have the opportunity and who will not in hundreds of small localities.
Strengthening community settlements in this way leads to direct harm to development cities.
Instead of strengthening neighborhoods in Sderot, Yeruham, Maalot and Tiberias, they strengthen the surrounding community settlements.
When the kibbutzim actually abandon the extensions, the bubble settlements with the yellow gate receive a boost from Interior Minister Shaked and her friends in the right wing of the government.
Plans for the establishment of new community settlements in the Negev and the Galilee, while being connected to the Admission Committees Law, are a recipe for creating elitist bubbles that do not see the rain around those around them.
The Coalition for Change proves that it does matter.
For the worse.
It does not see with its own eyes the needs of the young men and women of Israel and the needs of the developing cities.
It is better that they abandon this path immediately.
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