The photo at the scene of the attack in Neve Ya'akov, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gabir were seen standing shoulder to shoulder - told the whole story.
In the past, Netanyahu could look to his left and find a balance there.
In the past these were, among others, Dan Meridor, Ehud Barak and Benny Gantz.
This time, when he looked to the side, he saw Ben Gabir, and by his side all the extreme political right, which forces him to be in the moderating role.
Netanyahu understands what Ben Gabir is trying to achieve.
Ben Gvir knows what Netanyahu wants to achieve.
As long as this balance of horror holds, they will go together.
In Ben Gvir's case, if he fails to protect the public and the attacks continue, he will find Netanyahu, the ombudsman, or both to blame for the situation.
Netanyahu will disown Ben Gabir a minute after the legal reform that will ensure his release from the trial is passed.
will look for the fastest way to get rid of him.
Because Netanyahu understands that Ben Gvir is a danger.
Ben Gvir is popular, smart, a communication genius, charismatic and young.
His whole future is ahead of him.
On the eve of the murderous attack, Ben Gvir repeated several times the fact that he left the Shabbat table and his guests to get to the scene of the attack.
In the past he came to such arenas to incite the ministers and the police, to shout that there is no governance and that there is fear in the streets.
He promised that in the new government he would only want the internal security portfolio.
He said he would establish a national guard, strengthen the police and personal security.
By virtue of these messages he was launched into the Knesset with 14 mandates together with Smotrich.
Now it's his shift.
He did not give inflammatory interviews at the scene of the attack.
Hug and shake hands.
He thanked the many who said they voted for him, and who in the past voted for Likud, comforted and caressed.
Whispered words of consolation to the father who had lost his son and daughter-in-law, and walked around the arena with a stern expression on his face.
And especially a length of time, to wait for the Prime Minister who announced that he would arrive at the arena.
A prime worth its weight in gold for him.
It is amazing how Ben Gvir managed to drag Netanyahu to his court, thus creating a narrative of shared responsibility.
Netanyahu, in all the years of his ministry, made sure not to do things on Shabbat in a parochial manner.
On Friday there was no real reason for his arrival at the bloody arena.
In similar cases, Netanyahu was in no hurry to arrive at the scene of an attack, and contented himself with receiving reports and convening a cabinet.
This time it was different.
He was sitting in his house in Caesarea, and saw the sights and heard the voices and the way in which Ben Gabir was received, and at that place a decision was made to go on Shabbat night to Neve Yaakov, and not leave the stage to Ben Gabir.
Nothing to say, 0:1 to Ben Gavir.
Netanyahu was dragged along and served as a setting for Ben Gabir's gallop forward and upward.
And the next day - another attack.
This time, after Shabbat, he came to visit the wounded in the hospital, which served as a setting for him to look for and mark the guilty - the ombudsman did not allow him to immediately seal the house of the abominable terrorist - and at the same time he listed a series of measures that he would demand to be carried out: easing the obtaining of weapons licenses, the death penalty for terrorists , cancellation of citizenship, demolition of terrorist houses and more.
Some of the steps have been accepted, and Ben Gavir Kochav Aliyon continues to gallop forward towards the next goal, and the one after that - the prime ministership.
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