The minister of the Negev and the Galilee will be forced to watch the other ministers fly abroad, and leave from Holon or as far north as Safed. There are zig-zag ministries, and such is the ministry of the Negev and the Galilee - sometimes you are up and sometimes you are down. Do not let the new minister's spirit fall, he may yet find out that there are many good things at the end of the road. The minister who will be appointed is going to meet many warm people. And not just warm people, but really, really warm people, maybe even boiling. Why? Because they have been forgotten on the fire for too long.
The burning and most important issue is governance.
It is likely that the next minister will also try to muscle in on the Bedouin population with mobility on the roads and reports to drivers, but this is not what the Bedouin society needs. It needs governance not in the style of Ben Gabir, but the kind that will make it feel that it is part of the State of Israel and that the State of Israel governs in the streets of The Bedouin settlements.
Too many years bypassed them from afar and left them in the wild south.
This was a grave mistake, because what grows in the wild south will also grow wild in the center and north.
Although, the role of the security forces is to stop the riot, but the role of the Minister of the Negev and the Galilee is to make the transparent majority feel that someone sees them and truly understands them.
want justice
Last night's demonstration against the sentence of a ten-year-old rapist, photo: Dodo Greenspan
There are so many agents of change in the field who work night and day to connect the Bedouin and Israeli society in a way that benefits everyone.
But they need assistance, and they especially need to be seen and to know that for every one who drives like a madman on the roads, there are ten who stop to help those who get stuck.
And for every criminal who extorts Protection, there are dozens who learn Hebrew, go to study in colleges and work outside the settlements, looking for the way to become more complete Israeli citizens.
Life on the line
The minister of the Negev and the Galilee should be a bridge, an opening for the agents of change from the field.
Savers' tip: there's really no need to invest a lot of money in expensive consultants from the central region, because the best advice comes from the people in the field - and for free.
They know the problems and the solutions better than all the consultants who for 70 years land ideas and evaporate when the check appears.
By the way, not only the Bedouin society needs to be listened to - also the young people of the periphery, those who grew up here and want to live here.
There are no better people than them to explain the burning problems to young people who want to live here by choice, and not by fate.
If the new minister listens to them, he will find out pretty quickly that the periphery is travel, and travel is transportation, Mr. Minister.
Waiting for more lines.
The train station in Be'er Sheva, photo: Dodo Greenspan
It cannot be that in the central area you can get from point to point quite easily using public transport, but in the periphery you cannot get from one city to its nearest neighbor in less than two days, without a private car.
Not to mention getting from the center to the periphery.
What to do?
We need to add more railroads, more night trains and light trains, intercity trains and surprise trains - because nothing connects the periphery to the center more than the train.
There is already a whole class of people who live on the line.
The new minister must make sure that more lines are opened, and that the families will wander along the tracks, so that maybe the residents will have the opportunity not only to move comfortably from place to place, but also to get to a specialist doctor without waiting in line six months ahead.
And by the way, public transportation - is it possible to hire detectives to find all the public transportation buses that disappeared to the Bermuda Triangle and return them to their route?
economic anchor
Until the railroad tracks are laid and the buses return, the new minister will have to explain to the people of Route 6 that they cannot decide to stop the work on the continuation of the road from Shokat Junction to the south, just because it is too much work.
The new minister should tell them that Ben-Gurion is waiting too long for Route 6.
And speaking of Ben-Gurion - the biggest task is to land the next airport of the State of Israel in Nabatim.
Give a poor man a plane ticket - and you will make him poor for life;
Give him an airport - and you will give him employment for decades to come.
Not to mention tourists and tourism, and trade centers and logistics centers and tens of thousands of jobs.
There is currently no economic anchor that would improve the status of the periphery more than an airport.
The next minister should not be another regulator and simulator minister, we had enough of those - the periphery needs a combinator and a gladiator, someone who will turn tables and turn worlds.
And the main thing is that he will make the periphery a part of the State of Israel.
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