Netanyahu before presenting the Levin plan: We will prepare reforms that will ensure a proper balance between the three authorities (Walla system)
The first week of Netanyahu's sixth government can be summed up with the phrase "We're done."
The government ministers entered their new offices with great fanfare, and one by one they re-marked the territory with big bombastic first decisions, so that no one would miss that there is a new guy in the neighborhood and that there was a change of government.
Bezalel Smotrich's first decision was to cancel the tax on sugary drinks and disposable utensils, the economic hallmark of the previous government;
Communications Minister Shlomo Karai announced the cancellation of the cell phone training wall of his predecessor Yoaz Handel, Transportation Minister Miri Regev announced that she will look into the cancellation of the metro project and the intersections on the highways of Minister Merav Michaeli, and gave a blanket order to change the colors of the office that her predecessor led in the position.
We will continue: Defense Minister Yoav Galant informed Begetz of the change in the Bennett-Lapid government's policy and his intention to regulate the illegal outpost of Hamesh, and the new Foreign Minister Eli Cohen called his Russian counterpart Sergi Lavrov, breaking the Russian boycott led by outgoing minister Yair Lapid.
At the exchange ceremony at the Ministry of Education, the incoming minister Yoav Kish was ashamed and disdainful of the outgoing minister, Yifat Shasha Biton, and accordingly, his first decision in the ministry was to cancel her flagship reform in matriculation.
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That no one will miss that there is a new guy in the neighborhood.
Netanyahu's sixth government (photo: official website, Mark Israel Salem)
Headline chased headline, until the main headline maker took over the agenda and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir went on a downhill tour of the Temple Mount, the first in his new title.
The international community was not given even one week of grace to get used to the new and extreme face of the Israeli government, until Ben Gvir shoved it right in their face, summoning to Jerusalem a wave of condemnations from the ends of the earth, and even a discussion of the Palestinians' participation in the Security Council.
In Netanyahu's office, they had to postpone the historic visit to Abu Dhabi that was supposed to launch his return, and replace it with messages and reassuring talks that there is no change in the status quo.
In total, the supply is good for one week.
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But above all rose the Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, who launched at a press conference the reform/revolution/coup of the authorities that he is planning, which under the magic word "governance" will change the entire delicate democratic fabric in Israel.
The very appointment of Levin, a brutal veteran and determined fighter for the weakening of the Supreme Court and the strengthening of the power of the politicians, as well as the priority that the issue received in the coalition agreements, has already put the legal system and civil society on high alert and absorption alertness.
Levin gave them only four days of acclimatization before fulfilling all their fears.
The timing, a few hours before the Begetz hearing on the appointment of Yor Shas Aryeh Deri despite his criminal conviction, sent a clear message: no matter what the judges decide about Derni's defamation, the confrontation between the authorities is already here. Right in the face.
He has already put the legal system on standby.
Levin (Photo: Maariv, Avshalom Sashoni)
The Zebang and Gemarno policy was also carried out internally, within the government ministries, where the Likud also wants to wipe out at once all the remnants of the previous government.
The CEOs of the Bennett Lapid government are being replaced by activists and associates of the ruling party, the customary dismissals of all the holders of positions of trust in the ministerial offices are sweeping and without exceptions. According to a report in News 12, Netanyahu's office is even compiling lists of senior officials in the public service who were appointed during the Bennett-Lapid period to examine whether They can be ousted and put in their place by Likudniks. The mass cleaning of the stables will also continue with Levin's reform, according to which the ministers will be able to replace the legal advisers in all government ministries and appoint their trusted people instead.
We were elected to govern, the senior coalition officials memorized to the cheers of the base, and no one will stop us;
Not the court, not the workers, not the officials, not the petitions or the demonstrations.
And certainly not the opposition, whose leadership likes to demonstrate its weakness and weakness.
Hours after Levin presented his revolutionary plan, opposition leader Yair Lapid took off for a vacation in Paris, while the chairman of the state camp, Benny Gantz, made a public proposal to Netanyahu to form a joint team that would formulate a legal reform with broad consensus.
"A weekend with my wife, for God's sake," Lapid justified himself in a post on Facebook and rejected the growing criticism of his commitment to the fight against the incoming government. He is right, just not sure that it is wise to fly abroad when his camp is so frightened and anxious about the fate of the country. Gantz , as usual, tried to fill the void he left and steal horses at his own expense, but his outstretched hand did not meet a sister's hand, and the Likud did not even really bother to respond to the proposal *and only filtered out an invitation to the hearings of the Constitution Committee in the Knesset*. To summarize the state of the opposition at the end of the first week of the new government: Lapid is in Paris, and Gantz is waiting for a call from Netanyahu. As they say in the coalition - we have only just begun.
An hour after the presentation of Levin's show, he took off for a vacation in Paris.
Lapid (Photo: Reuven Castro)
And yet, the policy of "We're done and we're done" has lit small fires for Netanyahu everywhere and is putting his government on a fast and multi-front collision course.
The political arena and the legal arena are already on fire, and the High Court's ruling on the matter of Deri's appointment will only increase the height of the flames and create a first-of-its-kind constitutional political crisis. Galant is only a matter of time.
The economic arena is bubbling as well. The warnings of the governor of the Bank of Israel about the waste of funds in the coalition agreements will become a reality for Netanyahu and Smotrich in the budget discussions that will begin soon, which will have to provide solutions to the cost of living and inflation and fulfill the sectoral whims of the partnership. As long as the celebration of demonstrations continues the muscles, so it will be more complicated.
Netanyahu is not known as a pyromaniac, but his opponents are convinced and persuasive that behind the chaos there is a deliberate hand, which is looking for an escape route from the trial.
The second possibility is that he was not able to take control of the event yet, directly following the coalition negotiations in which he was managed by his partners who blackmailed him to the hilt.
The question is whether he will act to put out the small fires before they cause irreversible damage to the state and its institutions.
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