When asked what a revolution in favor of the periphery of Israel would look like in political terms, the answer is simple: a coalition crisis around the terrible gaps.
When a government falls following the data of the poverty report, following the data of the gaps in education and health or following the crisis in public housing - we will know that there is political power for the needs of the peripheries.
This past week has been a great example.
Each party has dozens to hundreds of items it is trying to promote, as a party and as individuals.
In blue and white, for example, there are the issues of ministers and Knesset members.
In the Economics Committee, Michael Bitton tries to promote solutions for public housing, the Fund for Credit Models and the treatment of centralization and the cost of living.
The question is what they are really fighting for, and where to put the political power.
Bnei Gantz, the defense minister and blue-and-white chairman, decided. He created the crisis around the pensions of permanent employees. Without going into the issue itself, it is a meaningful choice. In a narrow coalition, the meaning is clear: either the funds will be transferred RAAM puts their weight on aid to Bedouin society, or when labor tries to change the reform in agriculture.
Each party chooses its struggles sparingly, but it is quite clear what can go through and what cannot.
I have a dream: a party that will fight for billions to live in poverty, food security, housing and reduce the huge gaps in health, education and employment, just as Gantz is fighting for the billions for pensions of permanent servants.
Only an organized political force, which places its weight on what hurts half of Israelis, girls and members of the social periphery, can bring about change.
Someone who will work for half of the workers in Israel who earn less than NIS 6,000 a month.
For the benefit of the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who need the most basic and meager subsistence allowances.
For the benefit of the hundreds of thousands of children who are pushed to the bottom of the food chain, paving the way for poor schools.
For the benefit of the people of the Negev and the north, who have much depleted medical infrastructure from the center.
All of these and other issues are, appropriately, addressed by the political system.
This is true when it comes to the government of change, and it was also true in the Netanyahu governments.
There were also MKs who were interested and mobilized in favor of socio-economic issues, but they never took the risk and put all their political power in favor of the peripheries. And there is no revolution without risk and without the use of force.
A day will come and there will be room for such power.
Not just for the children of the periphery.
This is the necessary revolution for Israeli society.
International studies show that in a country with more equal opportunities for our children and fewer gaps, we all enjoy prosperity.
Confidence indices will rise.
Crime will go down miraculously.
Health and quality of life will go up.
For that to happen - we will also need political power.
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