Heroes for a moment: When terror is rampant, you are suddenly reminded that the Israeli policeman is one of the best there is

The popularity of the police soared miraculously this week, and rightly so.

Now make sure that when the fire subsides and the dust settles, it will not dry out in the corner again.

After a drowsy response to the events, Prime Minister Bennett decided to storm the wave of terror as the wave of terror stormed us. And what was the head of the opposition supposed to do on such days

Ben Mercury

01/04/2022

Friday, 01 April 2022, 08:00 Updated: 10:25

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In the video: Border fighters killed in the attack are laid to rest (Photo: Eli Ashkenazi, Yotam Ronen)

The current wave of terrorist attacks is doing to the police what the Corona has done to the health care system: revealing its true condition.

It is possible to include the IDF in this equation, whose real condition was revealed, fortunately, in the Second Lebanon War. But the IDF does not really belong to this family.

This is the family of the rejected and the deprived.

The IDF (as well as the GSS and the Mossad) is one of our indulgences.

He has rightly earned his status, because without him we would not be here for more than a few minutes.

Since the establishment of the state, the defense systems have enjoyed an abundance of budgets and are preferred over all other needs.

So it was, so it will be, even after world peace is achieved.

The health care system and the police are the least successful children in the family, the ones who do not really interest anyone, and in the end are sent to a boarding school that has no power in the hope of hearing from them as little as possible.

The problem is that from time to time we get a reminder from the boarding school principal about the child's condition, which also reflects on our condition.

In the end, the bill is presented to us, and since Bibi is no longer the prime minister, then we have to pay.

We've talked enough about the health care system in the last two years.

A base of excellence (HMOs, community medicine, quality of physicians) that has rotted because of decades of criminal neglect.

The police are in a similar situation.

Unlike the health care system, which is experiencing a Corona-style crisis for the first time in the modern era, police are dealing with blood and fire in the streets in alternating rounds on an almost regular basis.

Just a year ago there were riots here at the Wall Guard.

A few years earlier we had experienced the wave of terror that killed 50 people.

The second intifada is, of course, the founding event of all time, in which the policemen served as human beings for civilians and found themselves, time and time again, in front of zero-range suicide bombers. And there are many more examples.

In these days of terror raging in the streets, the popularity of the punching bag also known as the Israel Police is miraculously soaring.

Suddenly we rediscover these heroes.

The problem is that when the wave passes, the fire subsides and the dust settles, we forget.

The police return to the corner and continue to dry up quietly.

So first of all, this week should give her the respect she deserves.

When it comes to terrorism, the Israeli policeman is one of the best in the world.

With professionalism, dedication, courage.

In Hadera, the deputy commander of the police undercover unit eliminated one of the terrorists with an accurate shot from a 25-meter range gun that hit the center of the head.

The terrorist was wearing a ceramic cap. Along with him were the unit's non-commissioned officer and sergeant major.

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The popularity of the punching bag, also known as the Israel Police, is soaring.

The scene of the attack in Hadera, this week (Photo: screenshot, Shlomi Gabay)

When the attack began in Bnei Brak, Amir Khoury and A., his partner, were in operational activity in nearby Ramat Gan.

Immediately upon receiving the call turn on their helmet cameras and set off in a mad ride towards the event.

They got there in less than three minutes.

Khoury was riding a motorcycle, and the film of his helmet camera is really breathtaking (this film was not released by the police).

As soon as he arrived at the scene, while riding in a circle, Khoury absorbed the death bullet in his chest.

His partner did not know.

The motorcycle overturned.

A. recovered within half a second, stormed towards the terrorist and eliminated him with a short and accurate barrage.

He made sure the terrorist was neutralized, kicked his weapon away from him and went back to check on what was happening to Khoury.

Only then did he understand.

Not long after, a bunch of hooligans were already blazing the neighborhood with rhythmic shouts of "Death to the Arabs," unaware that one of those they wished for their deaths was the policeman who saved them.

The current government has inherited a bloody legacy: governance in the Negev has long been lost.

The police have been abandoned for years, and since the opening of investigations against Netanyahu has become his and Mazdanevi's regular punching bag.

The deterrence dissipated.

Hamas has grown to dangerous proportions.

The economy froze, and much government activity was frozen because there was no budget passed.

Hundreds of vital civil service appointments have not been filled.

The Arab sector has become the largest military base in the Middle East. And this is a very partial list, but it does not prevent the one who bequeathed it (but still quarrels between us) from preaching morality to his successors. The government depends on the voices of the Islamic Movement. "

The first to put this instigator in his place was MK Mansour Abbas, who said on Channel 12: "Bibi, last year in the Wall Guard we sat together three times in Balfour, we negotiated a partnership between the Likud and RAAM and a coalition agreement.

So, were we not the Islamic Movement? " (Recently the military secretary was sent to him alone, who will update).

Netanyahu apparently wants to avoid the picture in which he is sitting at the foot of someone who was the head of his staff and receiving a briefing.

He needs to keep the passon.

And what about the state?

She's less interesting.

It could be that if he had been a little more up-to-date, Netanyahu would have tried to do what any responsible opposition leader should do on days like this: give backing to the government and announce that when it comes to the war on terror, it has a safety net from the opposition.

For if this government does depend on the voices of the Islamic movement even in these days of terror, it indicates Netanyahu's intention to overthrow the government in the voices of the Islamic (and joint) movement even when we are under attack.

Pretend to be surprised.

Bennett's three missions

Back to the police: Superintendent Yaakov (Kobi) Shabtai is not as sophisticated as Yochanan Danino and Yoav Saglovitz and not a fox like Roni Alsich.

He's more of a warrior type.

Exactly what the police need now.

After the attack in Be'er Sheva, in a police incident, he said the following: "Unfortunately, the operational reality of the Israel Police does not allow the placement of a police officer on every street corner or in every shopping center. Our deployment varies according to threats and warnings, "

Last week this outcry was also echoed on these pages.

One should pray that this time she will fall on deaf ears.

There is a real chance this will happen.

Prime Minister Bennett, in closed-door talks, said this week that this is exactly what he is going to do: adapt the police to the state.

Bennett has also snatched in the past week from those who think he is a not-so-bad prime minister (like me, for example).

He did not respond to events quickly, as usual.

He did not understand the magnitude of the hour and its danger in time.

For the first few days he petrified like a blinded doe from tall semitrailer lights that would soon run over her.

But he recovered.

After a week of stuttering, decision makers began to make decisions.

On Thursday morning, the IDF, the GSS and the police (again, the police undercover unit, which is everywhere) went on a large-scale operation in Jenin, which resulted in 31 detainees, including the terrorist's aides from Bnei Brak and four Palestinian gunmen killed.

Defense Minister Bnei Gantz began signing administrative detentions, also against Israeli citizens (East Jerusalem).

The area was flooded with forces, the IDF would intensify the police, intelligence would pick up gear, and anyone who had ever been linked to ISIS became an immediate suspect.

At the same time, a right decision has been made (for now) and important: to differentiate between the arenas.

Do not mix population in hazards.

Not to act laterally, but in depth.

Not a 5 kg hammer, but tweezers.

This brings us back to the knife terror days of 2015-2016.

The feeling was similar to what is happening now.

Suddenly, young Palestinians begin to attack us without prior preparation, without intelligence, without warning, without belonging to any organized terrorist organization, some armed with knives, some with screwdrivers, some with improvised submachine guns.

The government was a right-wing government.

Instinct said to respond with all his might.

The defense establishment said something else: the majority of the Palestinian population is not involved.

There is no reason to damage the fabric of life.

A distinction must be made between the individual hazards and the general population.

It was hard to digest by right-wing ministers.

Ayelet Shaked, for example, then asked Chief of Staff Gadi Izenkot during one of the cabinet meetings why they do not consult with those who thwarted the second intifada. Izenkot smiled and explained to her that all those who thwarted the second intifada are around the table: he was Judea and Samaria commander, so Also the current head of the GSS and the rest of the arms. All are graduates of the same event and all are sober enough to understand the constraints of the situation. Fortunately, the head of the opposition in those years was not Benjamin Netanyahu. He was the prime minister. "about.

The Palestinians continued to go to work.

The GSS tightened its intelligence envelope, and the wave of terror was put out without the club burning.

More of a warrior type, just what the police need now.

Saturn at the scene of the attack in Hadera, this week (Photo: Official website, police spokeswoman)

Now Shaked, along with partner Bennett, are at the wheel.

Things seen from here are not seen from there, etc.

The Cabinet decided on Wednesday to accept the recommendation of the security bodies this time as well and not to harm the Palestinians.

Neither in Judea nor in Gaza. It was further decided to differentiate between the fronts. To work in an orderly, but determined manner (and therefore the operation in Jenin was launched in full force). Cut it off faster than the previous time.Measures: Do now what we were supposed to do in a few weeks, if the situation escalates.The method: act only matter-of-factly, in the face of the exact threats or intelligence, and not tentative or passionate, to the voice of the masses.

And in short, what will happen?

According to Bennett, the wave of terrorism should be exploited to attack three missions: First, it is an urgent rehabilitative root canal treatment for the police.

The government will immediately approve a quarter of a billion shekels in addition to the police budget and will set a plan to increase the police as quickly as possible, without budgetary constraints.

The goal is a significantly larger increase than the increase already decided (about a thousand policemen).

Let's hope that happens.

The second task is to collect illegal weapons from the Arab sector.

Bennett intends to take advantage of the current atmosphere to carry out this operation, in a way that has not been seen until now.

This is the time, he says in closed-door talks, and is also based on Mansour Abbas' steadfast support of such a move.

Need to hit the iron while it's hot, and now it's hot.

Bennett's third mission is to establish a civic body in the style of the Civil Guard, which will be larger, more trained and more serious than its image, will join the governance effort and maintain public order on a routine basis, and will be a strategic asset for emergency governance protection.

Bennett's appetite is great.

Relative to falling asleep in the first stage of the event, this is a welcome awakening.

Bennett of the Corona, the agile and ecstatic entrepreneur from the happy high-tech days has been resurrected.

Now it remains only to wait and see if all these plans will come true and how exactly reality will cultivate across the planners, as it does in our places from time to time.

To conclude this chapter, we will return to the police: relative to the situation and the means at its disposal, the effort it has invested in crime in the Arab sector over the past year and the effort to restore governance is admirable.

There are not bad numbers.

Since the commissioner took office, close to 300 motorcycles have been added, allowing teams such as the team of the late Amir Khoury to arrive with quick intervention for urgent calls.

The police confiscated almost NIS 1.3 billion from Arab crime families.

Some of their leaders have already relocated to neighboring countries.

There is a steep increase in the indictments filed, a not bad increase in the number of weapons seized and a significant decrease in the number of murders in the sector.

It's not enough, it's not even starting to suffice.

From now on, the government will be examined in its actions and one of them is the treatment of the police and its return to competence.

This is important for the routine, it is even more important for the emergency, and the emergency in Israel is part of the routine.

At midnight

What did Netanyahu do this week, other than send his followers to dance on the blood (Miri Regev probably thought that one should actually dance, whoever missed the starring video is invited to Google) and demand that the government immediately pass a law to demolish terrorists' houses (which he himself blocked during his tenure)?

He arrived one night at the abandoned and renovated Knesset (we are on vacation, yes?), Immediately summoned the conciliator Yariv Levin and immediately afterwards the two insulting ministers Amir Ohana and Shlomo Qara were added.

This mysterious nocturnal meeting took place around midnight.

She had a reason: every MK who entered the Knesset was immediately registered as "present in the Mishkan" and the information was available on the Internet. Netanyahu knew it would leak. I actually got to notice it first and send a suitable tweet. , Bibi in the middle of the night in the Knesset, and more with Yariv Levin! The leading speculation was "the overthrow of the government" or "there is a deserter from the coalition!"

Rubbish.

Netanyahu wanted this spin, to try to create relevance for himself.

Instead of announcing that he is at the disposal of the prime minister and the Likud will back up any activity against terrorism, he is trying to exploit the situation for political purposes.

No need to be surprised.

But there is something surprising: many senior Likud members do not cooperate with this biblical approach.

Yuli Edelstein tweeted a sublime state tweet this week, as in those good old days, before the outbreak of chaotic bibism.

Israel Katz gave Aryeh Eldad and Lee an interview in which he criticized the government as required of an opposition member, but maintained stateliness and backed any action against terrorism. There are other examples. ).

Momo's sewing room

Anyone who thought they had not seized Benjamin Netanyahu snatched a snooker this week.

The stitching came from a surprising direction: state witness Shlomo Pilber sewed the defendant two and a half hours, from top to bottom and back, a thorough and unparalleled clean stitching.

Besides, Pilber's first testimony week made it clear, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the 4000 case is a stable case that almost any reasonable-minded plaintiff would file as a bribe.

Will Netanyahu be convicted of bribery in this case?

Early to determine.

Did Pilber greatly strengthen the chances of that happening?

Yes resonates.

Reinforced even more than the most optimistic man in the prosecution estimated.

The rift among the shofars was enormous, it reminded me somewhat of the Chabad followers with the death of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (I was then a Maariv reporter in New York, of course). "Wait for Pilbar," the guys smiled for months, "a little more Pilber testimony," trying to get ahead of their time. , So Netanyahu's followers were convinced that Pilber would collapse the cases to a final collapse, bring the charges to a grave burial, close the door on the prosecution, the prosecutor, the ombudsman and everything that moved.

It turns out that Pilber overestimated himself.

His behavior in recent months has not been smart, to say the least.

He built a big mountain of expectations that collapsed on his head this week.

His twists and turns caused the (brilliant, admittedly) plaintiff Judith Tirosh to scrutinize with him in every detail, to insist on the original version, to extract from him a thousand and one confessions, messages and sighs that would cast the foundation on which the bribery offense should stand.

Yes, there was a directive from Netanyahu to do good with Bezeq.

Yes, I did not act as a regulator.

Yes, I did it all because of the same instruction from Netanyahu.

Yes, yes and yes.

Pilber admitted to everything, sometimes more than once.

What will the defense do?

I have no idea.

She will no doubt turn to a plea bargain sometime in the coming weeks.

In the cross-examination, she will try to extract from Pilber his interpretation and professional opinions about his moves in Bezeq.

I do not think it is interesting.

Pilber, as has already been written, is not the commentator of the event, but the reporter.

He has to bring the facts, and he has brought them in an indisputable way.

Even if he proves that everything he did is logical, professional and legitimate and everything the Ministry of Communications officials wanted him to do was illogical, illegal and illegitimate, it does not matter to prove the bribery offense.

Once Netanyahu gave an order to do good with Bezeq in the face of a gift he received from Elowitz, it is not even relevant if this order is fulfilled.

But there is no reason to harness the cart (on the way to Maasiyahu) in front of the horses.

Netanyahu has not been convicted yet, this trial is in its infancy (and they do not smell good), in a criminal trial anything is possible.

Screen lifting

Personally, my eyes caught in Pilber's testimony some angles that seem anecdotal, but they really are not.

When asked about the "reprimand call", during which Netanyahu (in his capacity as communications minister) called him and reprimanded him for not firing the deputy director of the ministry who made it difficult for Bezeq, Pilber said he was not moved by the conversation. Judge Baram asked him why he was not moved. "Anyone who knows Netanyahu or has worked with him knows that towards the evening hours, when his wife or son is frightening him of something, then in order to get out of duty he shakes and says 'I took care'."

Pilber has a small mistake.

Not only does anyone who works or has worked with Netanyahu know this, the readers of this column have also known this for years.

The former prime minister, the man who built for himself the image of a "strong" leader, is a weak, shaky man (this word Pilber used, not me), whose whole eyes are on pleasing the instructions of his wife and son.

In my book on Netanyahu, I told how one of his senior advisers was called by him to Balfour to help convince the lady of some problematic matter.

As the man confronted Her Majesty, he noticed out of the corner of his eye how the Prime Minister quickly slipped away and fled into the study.

This is how it is conducted in the affairs of the family, the state, security, the economy, and especially the media.

It seems to me that this is what brought Netanyahu both the 4000 portfolio and the 1000 portfolio, and you will know what else.

By the way, it does not fade over the years, but rather the opposite.

It gets stronger all the time.

Even during Netanyahu's mourning visit to Bnei Brak this week, a loud phone call came in that scolded Netanyahu's paragon tweet to the heroic police officers.

Since when is he allowed to pargan to the police?

One way or another, Pilber did a beautiful "screen-lifting" for us this week about the corporate culture around Netanyahu, if that term can be used.

And also about the horror.

And also about the way in which the Ministry of Communications became a private clearinghouse in the service of a family, which tried to take over what was left in those years from the Israeli media with brutality, intoxication of power and a sense of self and zero more.

Another anecdote, which could have been amusing had it not been for the former prime minister: Pilber describes a meeting in Balfour with Netanyahu.

Suddenly Sarah passes.

"Do you correspond with Iris Elovich?", Bibi asks her, and she replies "Yes, but I stopped and deleted the messages."

Netanyahu: "Very well. Do not continue."

Here's another piece of evidence for the alleged criminal thought of this cute duo.

If everything's fine, no offense, no rotten relationship, no gift, no alliance of horse thieves (all alleged), then why delete the posts?

Sew the defendant two and a half, from top to bottom and back.

Pilber (Photo: Reuven Castro)

We will end with an excerpt I wrote seven years ago (May 18, 2015).

Below: "So why did Peter Benjamin Netanyahu, on the first day of his fourth government, fire the esteemed Director General of the Ministry of Communications, Avi Berger, in a telephone conversation?

Arrange a job for his associate and his (talented) campaigner Momo Pilber?

Not serious.

Pilber can be brought in for government approval, passed for commission approval.

This is a procedure, this is a committee, it takes a good few weeks, meanwhile, to say goodbye to Berger, who has done a few things for the public good in the Ministry of Communications.

You can act like a human being.

"A second option is the one published yesterday in Economics: a 'deal' between Netanyahu and Bezeq's owner, businessman Shaul Alovich. Bezeq. These are billions. Bezeq petitioned the High Court in this matter, the hearing next week.

Could that be the urgency?

Could it be that the Ministry of Communications suddenly changed the clear opinion it submitted to the High Court? Maybe.

"But here's another suggestion.

Last week, the director general of the Ministry of Communications, Avi Berger, filed a complaint with the antitrust commissioner against Bezeq. The complaint was not published. Today (today!), The commissioner, Prof. Bezeq to align with the ministry's line revolution. Well, such a meeting between the commissioner and the director general of the Ministry of Communications will no longer happen today, because the director general "

By the way, shortly afterwards Prof. Gila also resigned.

And one more thing: Berger, shortly before his dismissal, decided to fine Bezeq a huge sum of NIS 13 million for the delays it causes in the reform.

It seems to me that the dismissals shelved the fine.

I'm trying to find in the archive a reference to this fine, and the information is confusing.

Berger apparently decided to make a final decision on the amount of the fine only "in a few days."

In the meantime, he was fired.

Everything is of course completely coincidental and everything is seeming.

External threats

Towards the close of the issue, Tal (Shalev, Walla) learned that after the terrible threats on the life of the prime minister's wife and sons, which are ignored by the relevant authorities (the Shin Bet), Netanyahu has now decided to turn to the head of the Mossad to secure his son Avner.

I have no idea what Dedi Barnea's answer will be, but I have no idea what happened in a similar case of another prime minister: Ehud Olmert.

Olmert's son also studied abroad. At the Sorbonne. After the Second Lebanon War, Olmert became a not very popular figure in the Middle East (and also in Israel ...). It was decided that there were real threats against the son at the Sorbonne. It was decided to secure him. Shadow of a security guard around him, he will stop studying at the Sorbonne and return to Israel, of course the initiative to secure him was not family-run.

It is hereby suggested that the Netanyahu family do what the Olmert family did: that the son learn under a false name, a well-known practice among the sons of, both in school and abroad. Since he is the humble son of the family, no problem is expected. And may we all have success.

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