There is an old and cute story, which says that after Amnon Rubinstein was Minister of Communications, the level of accuracy in telephone dialing in the country improved by 300%.
If in Rubinstein's time I would dial 811076 and get 234275, after he was Minister of Communications I would dial 811076 and get 641825. Indeed, a 300% improvement.
And morality of the mind?
(Because every good story has a moral of the mind): When it comes to correcting a broken reality, in which the morals and ethics are flawed, relative improvement is not enough.
Need a fundamental, rooted, profound and fundamental change.
When Bennett says that he is not Netanyahu, that Gilat does not sing, etc., he wants to say that he is not at all like his predecessor, and that he is the prime minister of change, healing and correction.
But here, we see that the change is not substantial but quantitative, so even according to a statement from the Prime Minister's Office itself.
Bennett announces morning and evening that "I am not like my predecessors."
This statement is inconsistent with his almost-Pavlovian instinct to compare himself to his predecessor at every opportunity.
He mimics the "pickle speech," comparing how many rockets fired from Gaza during his rule to Netanyahu's rule, and this week even published an accurate table of his family's electricity, flower, cleaning and food expenses versus those of the Netanyahu family.
So if it's so different, and there's nothing to compare at all, why is he comparing all the time?
All this petty discussion diverts public attention from the main issue, which is the fact that the Prime Minister of Israel does not live in the capital of Israel.
His home in Raanana is his official residence.
The general feeling is that there is no real pressure from the prime minister to start renovations and security adjustments (and this is the invincible ace of all time: "the GSS demands." Who would want to mess with or confront this absolute axiom? Who would agree to take risks?).
The excuse of a strike in the Ministry of Defense insults the intelligence of the public, because it knows, like any consumer, that there is always another option, and there is no can, there is not really want.
If the prime minister wanted to, he would be able to find, for example, a civilian contractor to renovate the house in Jerusalem under the supervision of the GSS.
On June 13, 2001, Naftali Bennett was sworn in as Prime Minister.
There are far-reaching implications for this move, and one of them is beyond Jerusalem.
I understand the difficulty, really.
The kids are enrolled in schools and classes, there is the neighborhood grocery store, the cafe and the familiar synagogue, the friends, the street and the house itself.
And yet, the decision to stay in Raanana - and yes, it's a decision - does not look good, to say the least.
While the State of Israel is struggling to move foreign embassies from Tel Aviv to the capital, and is asking the world to recognize it as its eternal and undivided capital, the fact that its prime minister is not present is very appalling.
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