Opinion | "Disputes Between Offices": The Central Barrier | Israel today

The Prime Minister's Office has been conducting a Schengen archive for several years.

He is not in the genizah for security or national reasons.

In fact, it would be more accurate to say that it was shelved from the public eye.

In the relevant offices, everyone already knows him and is afraid of the day when he will be published.

The survey was conducted at the initiative of the Prime Minister's Office when they made a decision to follow up on government decisions.

To the ordinary citizen it sounds obvious that a government wants to monitor its decisions and ensure their implementation, but it turned out that even in relation to OECD countries this decision was then considered innovative.

As part of this decision, the ministry sought to examine what the main barrier to government decision-making is.

In-room gambling has already begun - who will finish in the dubious first place.

The majority tended to gamble on the legal advisers, others on the finance accountants.

No one believed who, or rather what, would come in first place.

The legal advisers and accountants did reach the final, but ate dust from first place.

Meet the new main barrier - "disputes between offices".

What was even more surprising, was that the many survey participants were the ones who chose these three words, with the answers being in free text and not in choosing from options they were given in advance.

The reason for this is not surprising.

While legal advisers and accountants can delay the execution of decisions, sometimes for months and even years - they know there is an end to talking.

There is always a boss, and above the boss - a boss, and above them, if necessary, also come to the ministers.

There are those who will decide.

In disputes between offices there is no one to decide.

Most disputes are spiced up with respectable politics, one that throws responsibility from one office to another.

Take, for example, the 2006 government decision to transfer security responsibility for the "Jerusalem Envelope" sector (localities east and north of the capital) from the army (Ministry of Defense) to the police (Ministry of Internal Security).

For 16 whole years these two bodies have been in the same "dispute between offices."

16 years that no one is decisive.

They quarreled over budgets, over responsibilities, over the distribution of sectors.

They quarreled over the decision, its execution and the offices that would operate it.

Until one side got tired, and he (the IDF) announced that they were unilaterally withdrawing from the sector.

Enough, there is no more power to quarrel.

Therefore, on one night in February, the S.G.

In the surrounding settlements of Jerusalem and went home.

In one of the hottest sectors in the country, next to localities that have been defined as dangerous - the gates are wide open.

Say the residents have to carry it out of their own pocket?

There's a situation where you're right.

But neither the army nor the police agree with you.

For them, this is a sector that requires intelligence, thwarting and intensive activity - one that civilians cannot do.

And despite all this - this activity was stopped on one frozen night, and the lives of more than 10,000 residents in the State of Israel are at high risk, all because two government ministries in the State of Israel were unable to agree.

Where is the one who will knock on the table you ask?

Residents of the Jerusalem Envelope are also asking the same question.

But no one is willing to intervene between the defense minister and the BTP minister.

The guys on the left in the government think these are complaining settlers, the guys on the right (including the prime minister) are afraid to intervene and upset the left - and here is the explanation why those "disputes between ministries" have become the main reason why government decisions die along the way.

That poll was shelved because there is not a politician in Israel today who has the courage to deal with the main factor for which government decisions are not carried out.

Decisions whose non-implementation endangers life in the immediate term, prevents budgets, closes bodies and stings the State of Israel.

For years, the prime minister has boasted that as someone who came from high-tech, he knows how to solve barriers.

It's time to start applying it to his government.

Because every moment that passes, our lives are all in danger.

The author is a current high-tech entrepreneur and a former member of the Jerusalem City Council, a resident of Alon in Gush Adumim.

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