Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu experienced nine and a half hours of intoxication yesterday (Friday): from the moment the swearing-in began in the Knesset plenum until the government's group photo was taken at the President's residence that sealed the victory celebrations.
Netanyahu did indeed celebrate his victory on election night in early November, but the joy was short lived.
In the morning of the next day, the coalition contacts had already begun which lasted forever for two months, and only yesterday he realized the celebrated comeback to the Prime Minister's office and could rest on his laurels.
With a broad smile that never left his face, Netanyahu ran back and forth between the plenum and the opposition chairman's office, which he packed to move to his old-new room on the government floor of the Knesset, where crowds of adoring Likudniks waited to greet him and win a selfie as a souvenir of the historic status. In the evening, at the beginning of the first government meeting , he said that he met "smiling, happy and happy" citizens, and also reflected the murmurs of his own heart.
Inside the Knesset building, Netanyahu met his happy lovers and fans.
outside, less;
At the time of the inauguration, thousands demonstrated against the incoming government.
In the evening, while the ministers of the new government solemnly gathered for a joint photo, hundreds of protesters blocked the Azrieli intersection in support of the LGBT community.
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Even before it was established, the new government was greeted by an unprecedented civil awakening: demonstrations, letters and petitions from Haitians, pilots, mayors, police and lawyers who have been warning for weeks of the revolutionary reforms it is planning.
Even the business sector took an unusual position in the political arena;
Discount Bank's decision this week to update its credit policy and oppose religious Zionism's anti-discrimination policy drew a wave of similar announcements from the largest companies in the economy.
The security system is also aware of the changes that Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gabir want to make in the IDF, the Mageb and the settlements.
With the hangover from the victory celebrations, Netanyahu will aim to calm the burning territory.
"I am everyone's prime minister," he repeated in the various ceremonial speeches he gave yesterday, in which there was no trace of the ultra-Orthodox-Orthodox-Sectoral-Extremist agenda that was revealed in the details of the coalition agreements with his partners. He identified four main goals for his sixth government, all Deeply rooted in the heart of the consensus: Iran, security and governance, cost of living and peace (not with the Palestinians, with Saudi Arabia).
Netanyahu formed an expanded security political team, which includes his ultimate confidant Ron Dermer in the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, Defense Minister Yoav Galant, and the head of the National Assembly Tzachi Hanegbi, which was designed to strengthen and prioritize the presence and strategic actions of his government. Just before Yair Lapid replaced Netanyahu, in his last speech as head government, he said that it is possible to reach full normalization with the Saudis "within a short period of time". Lapid and Bennett cut Netanyahu's coupon on the Abraham Accords, and he will now be happy to cut it back with Dermer and quickly reach the Saudi cherry on the crown to complete the move they started, and launch the term in a historical and positive atmosphere.
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"Prime Minister of all"?
Netanyahu (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Likud estimates that with the formation of the government, the government ministers will immediately go to work and that the partners will be too busy in their new offices to deal with all the sectoral and extreme small things they demanded in the coalition negotiations. The first and most urgent task on the coalition's table is the passage of the budget, and the only issue that will receive priority and precedence besides that is the legal issue - which will be entrusted to Netanyahu's second ultimate associate, Justice Minister Yariv Levin.
Levin has an orderly and far-reaching plan for revolutionary legal reform, which will put the government on a frontal collision course with the judicial system. But it is not clear how quickly Netanyahu wants this to happen: if the government immediately enters the war For democracy, it will be very difficult for it to make peace at the same time. His two ultimate associates, Dermer and Levin, and the tasks they are entrusted with, reflect the familiar tension that has returned, between the statesman who wants to make history and the politician whose ultimate goal is to get out of the indictment. Netanyahu wants both, and at his own pace.
However, the schedules do not depend only on him.
The first challenge will come as early as next week, when the High Court will discuss with an expanded panel the appointment of Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri as Minister of the Interior and Health, despite his criminal conviction. If the judges choose to intervene in the appointment, it will change the agenda of the government that has just started and put it In a sharp confrontation with the judicial system already in its first month, Deri is expected to demand that the Knesset enact a superseding clause or cancel the probable cause for disqualifying his appointment, and bypass any decision that the court makes in his case. Thus, the world war between the governing authorities could break out earlier than expected, diverting Netanyahu's plans to another track.
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