The task was clear: go to the desert, and to the Likud strongholds that I will see, and check what the parliaments think about the plea deal that may be being forged between the State Attorney's Office and Benjamin Netanyahu.
But why assume that all the "babysitters" south of Gedera are parliamentarians, Time and Europe, with bitter and bitter coffee from life, mumbling "King Bibi" to the camera.
So I came to talk immediately to the suspects, but not to the immediate suspects, to hear what "babysitters" from the periphery, that is, Likudists, that is, human beings, think about the plea deal, if it goes on the air at all.
Dr. Adi Vaknin, a native and resident of Dimona, is a developer in the field of EdTech at Mindst in Yeruham.
At the end of the desert, in the heart of the Center for Innovation, sit the best minds and work on the future of technological education in Israel and around the world.
For years I have been following Vaknin's writing which focuses on her two loves - arthropod insects, and politics.
Unlike many bishops and diggers you know what they think even before you read, Vaknin is original and critical of the left, of the right and of herself, with the same sharpness of thought.
To pay the price, or to release it.
Hani Briga,
Were you surprised?
"No. This is a 72-year-old man, who spent most of his years in politics behind him, who ate and fed his opponents a lot of straw. Instead, I would do anything not to get to trial, including admitting things I did not do.
"We forget that he is a tired and not young man, and it is legitimate to say enough, I can no longer."
And this is not an admission of Netanyahu's guilt?
"In my academic training I am biological. Most of our lives we are part of complex systems, we are not binary beings. Maybe there is something in some of the charges, but the fact that the prosecution is willing to give up all noise and make a deal, in exchange for exclusion from political life? This one is meant to get him out of power and nothing more.
"The State Attorney's Office and the judiciary have lost big from the trial, now the general public in Israel understands that there is no proper administration and no one to guard the guards. These are the people who hold the keys to our freedom. "He will continue the trial until the end, today it is him and tomorrow it is them."
And if the legal system collapses, is it not better for the trial to end already?
"Netanyahu did not shatter the public's trust in the judiciary - nor the unspoken words his associates uttered and uttered in condemnation of the mechanism. Can distinguish between good and evil, who believe that the victim is the criminal and not the other way around.
"And the judges, not all of them, of course, but when some worry about the social life of infiltrators who have committed crimes or state that a terrorist did not intend to murder a Jew because his knife was 'too short,' or humiliate a rape victim and impose ridiculous punishments on sex offenders - then That the system is fundamentally flawed. And a terrible thing has been revealed - our legal system is not striving for justice but for silence, afraid to reach a verdict.
It is clear that Netanyahu is being persecuted.
Yogev Sabag,
"Netanyahu's trial has become a principled struggle and a symbol of the oppression of the right. So much disgust has surfaced and exposed the problems in the conduct of the police and the prosecutor's office, and when you see what sloppy work has been done, then you can not avoid feeling properly, and if so "Is it okay to get out of such a predatory system? That's why people take Netanyahu's trial in such an emotional way."
If you believe in his innocence, and he admits to the deal, how does that not make you change your mind?
"Personally, I'm not sure that Netanyahu is one hundred percent white and clear as snow, and not because he is Netanyahu, but because he has been in power for so many years that there is a chance that he did something wrong. Does that mean he is corrupt? I do not think so.
It is difficult for people to move from their position.
Everyone has an ego and history, and it's hard to take a step back and say 'I was wrong', so each side is fortified in its position.
I expected left-wingers who engraved on their banner human rights and proper justice to be the first to condemn and condemn all the failures of the prosecution and police in this trial, and then it turns out that it really does not bother them.
Apparently the pleasures of the government wink more at the rights of the defendants. "
"I'm already an experienced babysitter"
Guy Levy from Be'er Sheva is the CEO of a hologram company, and deals with turning the future into the present.
On top of that he is in his sophomore year of law school.
I ask him if he decided to study this particular profession because of Netanyahu's trial and he nods in favor.
A few years ago, he says, he sat in front of the television and heard about the suspicions of bribery against Netanyahu.
He read the whole indictment - 170 pages "Fascinating and reliable as a suspense story" - and that was not enough for him either, he wanted to know what the benefits of abnormal enjoyment and responsiveness were.
"It was amazing, I was looking for an article in which Sarah Netanyahu was rated by Forbes as the most important woman of the year, and she was not on the Walla website at all.
After two days of digging I found that the article was completely negative, and that the Walla website reviews the event every year.
I realized that something here was completely rotten, I recruited partners like Moshe Kovarsky, Dr. Adi Sabo and Moshe Melal, and we started checking.
To our amazement we found out that this is just an amateur for her name.
Even when Netanyahu seeks to condemn the assassination of Shira Banki, it is considered an 'abnormal response'.
That's how Project 315 was born, a hundred volunteers checking all the sections and showing that there is nothing there. '
Who is interested in the truth?
Guy Levy,
Serious accusation, why are you not heard about in the mainstream media?
"Because if we were ten privileged kibbutzniks and we would take some pipes and paint them and call them submarines, we would have coverage on all the news channels, but when we're really busy only? Who cares? Our staff consists of high-tech people, former 8200 people, doctors, psychologists "27 lawyers - and all of them voluntarily. But when you are in favor of Netanyahu, you are immediately a bibist who does not address any of his claims to the body.
How did you feel when you heard about the plea deal?
"Admittedly - on the first day there was some confusion. I did not understand why he needed it. It happened after the most difficult week for the State Attorney's Office since the beginning of the trial, when what we knew for years was discovered. The charge.
"But I thought about it, how much longer will a final sentence come? It's at least another five years in which he can not function as acting prime minister, and even if in the end all cases fall apart, he will be sewn for bribery and breach of trust because of the cigars he received from his friend." "And what is a breach of trust? It's a basket offense, anything can go in there. To take a matchmaker pin from work home? It's a breach of trust, and it's already a dangerous game for him."
Did not feel betrayed? The deal will not cause your entire project to collapse?
"On the contrary - it makes me much, much more determined. Because if they managed to overthrow a prime minister who was the most popular, who defeated the corona and overthrew the economy, on cigars and champagne he got from his friend - then who can on them? Who? If a policeman writes you a duo." H for a traffic offense and wrong in one section, you will fly to court and cancel the report, and here the prime minister will be convicted of 315 incidents that never happened? In order to create a proper society, for us and our children, we must resolutely fight a system of law that lies to judges in order to convict an incumbent prime minister.
"Instead, I would have long ago said, 'Friends, I did mine for you, thank you very much.' Now to Caesarea and bring him to Mandelblit to sign on the spot.It's ideal, not because I'm a babysitter, but because I would love to have a great leader who will lead our lives spectacularly for a few more years.But if he leaves with disgrace, it is a severe blow to democracy , about nothing".
If he is such a good and amazing leader, why neutralize him? Why is he so hated?
Levy smiles: "If you're a Real Madrid fan, is it true that you really, really hate Messi? Why? He's the best player in the world, but unfortunately he plays for Barcelona, your opponent."
A struggle for principle and a symbol of the oppression of the right.
Vaknin,
Plea?
Comes out cheap
"The chickpeas are on their way, but you have to taste my soup, championship!" In the end I arrived at the local parliament, I have no hummus on the main street of Yeruham. In the background Gary Moore and Stevie Ray Vaughan are tearing up electric guitars. Among them Yogev Sabag brings the soup. I ask if he puts on the music and he smiles and explains that "this is the concept of the owner of the place, but don't see us like that just oriental and trance, I also grew up on Pink Floyd". Sabag's soup is really championship, hot, delicious and exacerbates the mind. Want to talk about Bibi? "What is there to talk about, obviously he is being persecuted, that he will not make a deal, even if he got cigars, who cares? That he will get free, he deserves it. And I'm not even one of his voters."
So who are you voting for?
"With the situation today between Be'er Sheva and Yeruham, who should be voted for? Only Ben Gvir."
One of the diners throws at us "I listened to all those who talked and talked, and I understood that Bibi's trial was like a festival for Ashkenazis, and when they were told there was a plea bargain, it was as if they had been stopped all Passover, and at the last minute they took the money, poor thing."
Helen and Ruthie come to eat chickpeas, "A plea deal is a mistake," says Helen, "there is nothing because there really was nothing. And here - a fact that they can not prove, "says Ruthie," I feel sorry for him, it's a shame he went, a great leader, improved our lives a lot, is that what Yeruham would have looked like twenty years ago? Thank God, today there is development, there is construction, there are factories, "There is culture, there is action, there is high-tech, do you know what we are missing? Only the sea. Is it also his fault?"
"All over the world he is valued, and here they do not know how to appreciate, and not that God forbid I disqualify Bennett, he is fine, but he is still not suitable to be prime minister and certainly not Lapid, before he graduates and then we will talk about prime minister."
And signing this deal is not an admission that he is corrupt?
'Why, there's an uncorrupted politician?
Amram Mitzna was here in Yeruham, and he built the hotel and did a lot of good things.
Why?
Because he did not follow the book.
Here if you follow the book, you will do nothing.
Bibi did a lot of good for the country, so come on, let him smoke cigars and drink champagne.
"Today people are afraid to travel from Yeruham to Be'er Sheva, is that better?"
Hani Bariga, director of the Yeruham Tourism Association, does not agree.
"If an indictment is filed, and if there is a story, let the court decide, any plea deal annoys me, because I know the culprit comes out cheap from the sentence."
But does continuing a sentence not increase polarization and hatred?
"Do not eat this bullshit, it's an annoying leftist invention. This whole sentence gave them a reason to take to the streets and demonstrate, what a feeling that if it fell everything would be perfect as it once was when they ruled and did not see half the country."
One of the diners earlier said that Bibi's trial was "the financing of the Ashkenazim."
"Exactly! Of the leftists. And I still say - is the person guilty? Do not close it in a plea deal, that he will pay the price completely, and if not - release him. A plea deal can not serve public figures, Moshe Katsav or Bibi, it does not matter what the offense "Do not close plea deals in the dark, public figures are acting in public, and they must stand trial in public. For the sake of our children, let the court decide."
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