Raising the minimum wage to NIS 7,000 a month, adding days off for employees, moving to four working days a week, free education for children aged 0-3, imposing supervision on the rental market, these are just some of the initiatives of MK Naama Lazimi, who was a guest on the economic podcast of "Israel today".
Lazimi, let's remember, won the primary of the Labor Party a month ago, and she intends to promote all these moves in the next Knesset as well.
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We will reach ten mandates, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
When asked where the funding for all the initiatives would come from, Zimi replied: "First of all, there is the possibility of expanding the budget. We are the only party that talks about it. When Bibi promises free preschool education, and we know that he does not intend to increase the deficit, he quite upsets the public, it is not Surprising. We need to increase the deficit in order to increase productivity."
In response to the question of whether the wage increase would not further increase inflationary pressures, she replied: "Inflation needs to be dealt with in gradual steps. If it is through aid packages like they do all over the world. For example, job grants are decreasing, subsidizing healthy food products and other things that the countries are doing, but we are not there yet." .
"Today we pay much more for social services such as education services, health services, the state has the power to reduce the very high costs of the public, of course preschool education should also be free."
Lazmi: She has a solution to the housing crisis, photo: Liron Moldovan
Referring to the cost of living and the solution that the Treasury promotes, lowering tariffs and the swelling market for imports, Lazimi said: "The concentration in Israel is intolerable. We need to take care of everything related to the basket in our supermarket. There are those who take advantage of the situation and double profits even when tariffs are lowered, and the public still pays the same price or more. So there's something there that doesn't work, and even in the age of a free market it needs to be handled properly."
Lazimi says that the office where she can have the most influence is the Ministry of Housing and Construction.
"The housing and construction portfolio is the dream," she says.
Lazimi proposes to regulate the rental market: rent registration, regulation, setting standards for rent.
Similar to the plan of the Ministry of Housing and Construction that was first published in Israel Hayom, Lazimi proposes to limit the possibility of raising the long-term rent, in exchange for creating incentives and tax benefits for landlords.
Lazimi also referred to the criticism leveled at her initiatives, especially regarding the rental market, and said: "We are in a crash market where the rent is raised by tens of percent at once, it cannot be ignored. So I always wonder what is the interest of the people in jumping in only when offers from the social-democratic world are offered and never Not to talk about the problems that exist at that given moment?"
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We will not unite with them, photo: Gideon Markovich
On the housing crisis, she says: "Giving a free hand to developers with zero land does not solve the housing crisis because in the end it will be rolled back to us, they will record more profits and we will simply pay more. I am not against profits, but the state has control and there should be a limit to a certain return. In the end, the public should purchase apartments and not mortgage their lives for decades, if at all. It's a bubble in the end."
On the shortening of the work week to four days a week: "It is a reality. You cannot ignore the need for this to happen."
Lazimi added: "Furthermore, Israel has 11 fewer days off than the OECD average. Even when calculating holidays, this is considered too much. We really work too much, the people are worn out, and attrition produces lower productivity."
Lazimi also explained why there was no union with Meretz: "The Labor Party is a deep-rooted, historical party whose concept is center-left. Meretz has a very clear identity definition, they should be proud of it. And we are proud of our identity definition, peace and security, social economy - Socially, the Workers' Party, these are the things that define the Labor Party in its DNA. The people from the Labor Party are the ones who elected it, functioned in it and pay membership fees - they do not want this union and rightly so."
Regarding the parties in which primaries are not held: "Let's take Gantz - for a moment he was the new Rabin, who turned to the labor movement, and a moment later he takes Ze'ev Elkin and Gideon Sahar and Sharan Hashakal, which is a forum for evangelism for everything. This is a privilege of parties who arrange them and write a list, in the party Working like this, nothing can happen, for better or for worse."
To the question of how many mandates the Labor Party will receive in the upcoming elections, Lazimi answered: "I tell Ron Baruch, number 10 on the list, which is a target number. We need to reach at least 10, I believe that not only will we not fall short of 7, but there will be more, between 8 -10 - Remember my words."
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