If the results of the sample turn out to be the true results and Netanyahu will be the one to launch the next government, the task they have set for themselves in the right-wing bloc is already known and clear.
Netanyahu on the apparent victory: "We will work to reconcile the rifts" // Photo: Likud's pool mobile for all platforms for the Central Productions company
At the beginning of June, a few days after the announcement of fifth elections, Bezalel Smotrich gathered some well-known public opinion leaders from the right-wing bloc for a briefing in a background conversation as is customary.
Although it was the beginning of an election campaign, Smotrich refrained from trying to convince them to vote for him.
He claimed that the victory would be for the right-wing bloc and immediately went to the day after the elections.
Smotrich wanted to formulate a way of activity in which the right-wing bloc would behave the day after the victory, and mainly around the most important thing for him - governance.
Smotrich and many others in the right-wing bloc feel that during the 12 years of Netanyahu's rule, they held power but did not rule.
There are many examples of this: judges who interfered in government activities, the crime situation in the south, the inability to promote programs in government offices due to the rule of powerful officials, and more.
Why didn't they rule?
According to them, the address is clear - the legal system and the legal advisors as well as the media.
will get a chance to change.
Ben Gabir and Smotrich (archive), photo: Yehuda Peretz
Dodi Amsalem tells how the attorneys prevented him from reforming the Companies Authority, Amir Ohana recalls how Mandelblit refused to even just voice the opinions of other legal advisors in government discussions, and Netanyahu tells how the media attacked him for every step he took - even on the issue of bringing the vaccines that defeated the Corona virus.
In the coming term, the members of the right-wing bloc promise to fix it.
Their model, they promise, will be no different from the outgoing government.
They will return the legal advice to its natural size as a body that advises only and not a factor that decides.
They take an example of this from the offshore gas agreement, where the ombudsman recommended bringing the agreement to the Knesset for approval, but her recommendation was not accepted.
Even on the issue of the distribution of the cases, the right-wing bloc is expected to be less excited than the opposition or the media's calls for violence.
After Lapid secured 18 ministers and ended up with 26, and after he increased the number of Norwegian MKs significantly - they too will be allowed.
On the same idea, they say that now they will no longer be alarmed by venomous criticism against the distribution of coalition funds, as was done by the previous government, which, despite promises not to use the funds, distributed hundreds of millions of such funds, from educational needs to money for cats.
And another interesting point: If at the end of the coalition negotiations MK Itamar Ben Gabir's demand to become Minister of Internal Security is fulfilled, he is going to have a particularly difficult term. It is easy to shout from the opposition and it is very difficult to stand up to professional security officials who tell you that a certain decision you make could have dozens of consequences Deaths and international entanglement.
"We are asking for real change": Ben Gabir in a speech at the party headquarters after the results of the polls // Photo: Yoni Rikner
If Baruch Merzel attacked his friend Ben Gabir for "centering" in the current campaign and neglecting the messages associated with Rabbi Kahana, within a few months Ben Gabir may face protests at home for becoming a particularly moderate leftist.
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