Opinion Netanyahu's own goal Israel today

I'll start with a confession: Bakshi is my partner's last name, Vivian is my family name.

Those who search for the name on Google will find Yehoshua Yavin (Thugs Alliance), some of whom are still sure that he murdered Arlozorov, or Zeev Yavin, who walked around with a Bible in one hand and a shovel in the other, working at some of the most important archaeological sites in the country, such as Sosia or Sheila

Benjamin Netanyahu and I grew up in exactly the same ideological "Petri dish", and precisely because of this - I am convinced that the government he built around him this time will be the one that may end his political career: not the lawsuits about the cigars and the gifts, nor the calls for civil disobedience by his opponents - the "right-wing" government She is the political gallows.

It is worth going deeper into two key things that Netanyahu did: the first - challenging the state institutions, from the courts to the security system.

But this - his before God;

The second - the conclusion of the alliance with the ultra-orthodox and national religious people years ago.

The "princes of the Likud" were pushed aside, and those who nevertheless dared to run found themselves in a failed political adventure, which caused Nir Barkat, Israel Katz and Yuli Edelstein to sit back and just wait for it to end.

Netanyahu thought that the patent that accompanied him for years would work again, and now he finds himself with a militant ideological group.

In fact, without the members of the "Only Bibi/No Bibi" selections noticing, the word "right-wing" has been combined with the word "religious", and there is only one left who is "secular, liberal, right-wing", as Jabotinsky imagined, and therefore everyone votes for him.

But the patent has a political price: Netanyahu built the power of the ultra-Orthodox into a wall in the form of a wall, and now, after many years, he has also turned the ultra-Orthodox and the furthest fringes of the national religious into "kibbutzniks of the 2000s", as they wanted to be. And they They did not come to play, but to influence - to change curricula, control the police, weaken the courts, change the composition of the security prisoners in the prisons and control the civil administration.

But not only politically it has a price.

The real price is in the image of the state, with a government that is more than 50% religious - more than their representation in the population, for whom the "rise of the state" is not embodied in Start-up Nation, but in gender segregation in events in the public sphere and in the separation from the Jerusalem Pride Parade.

Whoever wants a glimpse of the future of such a country, let him take a small leap to Jerusalem - and that will be enough for him: it started with Nir Barkat, who, on his way to occupying the top of the Likud, made an alliance with the ultra-Orthodox and threw the largest secular movement in the council ("Awakening" in Jerusalem, of which I was one of its leaders) into the opposition.

In the subsequent elections, in 2018, after a 1% loss of 3,765 votes, the "liberal secular right-wing" was no longer needed to change the image of the city.

A rich man with a knitted cap from Givatayim was enough.

The results: record negative immigration of seculars from the city, complete dependence on state funds, a negative incentive for families with many children with low income and a drop to socioeconomic status 2. All of this is not hatred of Haredim, it is an introduction to the economy.

When this happens to the entire country, it will no longer be a "reckoning with Bibi" of some right-winger who will be "Smolen", but of everyone who wants a prosperous country.

In such a world, either the coalition will show Netanyahu the door - or the heads of the authorities that keep this country on its feet with tax payments of 70% of the total tax in the country will do it.

When my grandfather labored to prove the existence of the Jewish people on this earth, with a shovel in one hand and a Bible in the other, he did not think that it was necessary to maintain gender segregation in the public sphere, and he certainly did not think that the role of women was only to bear children. And among us - Netanyahu too I don't think so.

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