Until the last moment, even after the prime minister-designate announced to the president that he had managed to form a government, the wheels of the new coalition continued to grind and its members to skirmish with each other.
It was when the members of Degal HaTorah wrote to Netanyahu a letter against the summaries reached with their friends from Agudat Israel without their knowledge.
It was a jarring chord at the end of the contacts that lasted almost two months and stretched like chewed and tasteless gum.
And it is not certain that this is the last chord in the symphony.
If this is how the beginning looked, there is no telling what the continuation will look like, that is, the actual beginning of the work of the ministers from the various parties.
This time there is no "interfering" factor, Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu (archive), photo: Amit Shaavi
The establishment of the government may indicate its functioning, but not certain.
It is possible that after all the parties have closed the dozens and hundreds of clauses of the agreements, which affect almost every area of life in the country, the road from here on out will be smooth.
Blessed is the believer.
But all in all, the incoming government is very homogeneous, with the heads of the various parties participating in it seeing eye to eye in almost every matter.
It is true that they came with a great appetite after a year and a half in the opposition, and it is true that the degree of trust in Netanyahu to lead the necessary moves in the judicial system and in settlement is not one of the highest, but it would not be unreasonable to estimate that from here on business will actually flow.
Unlike previous governments, in which at least one weak link was involved in the last right-wing governments: Blue and White, the Movement, Kulanu, Labor, in this government there is no such link.
The more intense the opposition's attacks will be, and the more the media will mobilize and the justice system will run amok, the stronger the cohesion among its members will become.
Consolidation of ranks between Likud, religious Zionism, Torah Judaism and Shas, may lead to a more stable and longer-lasting government than expected. So far, the direction in which the opposition is marching and the impatience in the studios, the entertainment programs and the headlines of some newspapers, indicate that this will probably indeed be the case.
The calls about the loss of democracy are exaggerated on the border of the absurd.
The State of Israel, as a Jewish and democratic state, knew how to preserve democracy, make it a supreme value, and almost completely neglected the Jewish value.
She turned it into folklore, at most a demographic matter, but she never thought it was a binding value, an inseparable part of the country's status and character.
Not only the court in its many rulings testified to this, but even the Knesset itself, which even after decades of a quasi-constitution, the same basic laws, some of which determine the order of government and some of which set the order of value priorities, did not think to anchor the Jewish value as a fundamental and constitutional matter in the country, until the approval of a law The nationality is not long ago.
The second Jewish basic law planned after more than thirty years of democratic basic laws, is a basic law: the value of Torah study that appears in the coalition agreements.
If the law passes, it will be a minor correction that the Knesset will make on itself, but to complete the picture, the court, the creator of the revolution, will also have to do the same.
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