Once, when a football player was injured and lying sprawled on the grass, there was a gentlemanly custom of kicking the ball out and letting it recover before running towards the goal to take advantage of the player.
This was true for the neighborhood games as well as the World Cup, a kind of unwritten law that says game and basic fairness are more important than victory.
The offender would have received boos from the crowd and clashes with rival players.
Why?
Because you just do not do it.
The years passed and the victory became a foretaste of everything.
The gaze shifted from the player on the grass to the referee.
If he whistles and stops the game - they will stop;
If he lets play - they will run to "steal" a goal.
As long as it is legal - come on, Hapoel, or Maccabi, or Betar. The football culture has changed, cameras have also come in so that everything will be as fair as possible.
The same process happened to the government institutions in Israel.
We stopped looking at the other players, and instead we prefer to cry for the referee and wait for his decision.
Victory above all, and if we have a minimal majority, we will work to take advantage of it and steal a victory or two.
The big problem here, too, is that the fans, the citizens of Israel, are leaving the stands.
The degree of trust of Israelis in state institutions and their functioning is constantly declining: according to the findings of the Israel Democracy Institute, as of the beginning of the year, less than a third of citizens trust the Knesset and the government;
Only 15% data trust parties.
The democratic crisis is deepening all over the world, this is not an Israeli invention.
Try to think about when you recently heard a significant substantive debate in the Knesset;
When were you exposed to a brainstorming session that led to practical solutions for the lives of millions of Israelis who face real, everyday problems, with life itself.
To deal with the decline in trust in institutions and democracy in general, the Knesset must return to being the stage for the central game.
The all-important public debate must be returned to the Knesset committees.
Ping pong between the High Court and the government is far from a vibrant democracy. More and more decisions are being quietly "stolen", away from public debate. The current, as well as the previous coalition is crushing the opposition as much as it can. The opposition is just trying to interfere. Its sole role.The Democratic game does not end on Election Day.
The coalition needs to kick the ball out from time to time, allowing the opposition and many sections of society representation and expression.
Make every effort to restore respect to the opposition, to allow MKs to raise substantive laws and not disqualify them just because they are in opposition. .
Clear rules of the game are critical to the functioning of the systems of government, to the ability of the state to continue to thrive.
We can not continue to roll core debates to the High Court. A society can not be run only on a scale of legal or illegal. There is a whole world of values beyond that. pawn?!
On days like a birthday, less important who started, more important to start over.
True, there is a chance that the ball will not come back to you, but if you return to the field in the neighborhood, the ball is back and with it also a brotherhood that allowed you to continue playing together.
Happy Birthday.
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