Six years ago this week, my law was passed in the Knesset.
When I write this I still feel that it is an exaggeration, even though it is really a law, it really passed in the Knesset - and it really was mine.
Mine in the sense that I worked hard for four years - of course with the help of very successful people - to formulate it, gather support for it, fight for it, lose for it, cry bitterly over it a good number of times, fold my self-respect and flatter people I loathe, ask for help from strangers and collect favors that I have to return to this day.
But it happened.
To this day, a photo from the law book of the State of Israel hangs above my head in the corner of my work: the law for the protection of artists' rights in music.
It's a big and good and important thing that happened, but that's not what I want us to talk about.
I want us to talk about the Ecclesiastical Forum.
But before that, let's talk a little more about me.
When I wanted to right the wrong done to me, I was asked to propose a solution to the problem I am describing.
No one knew that in the music industry children and young people sign contracts with no end date and no exit points, and that they could easily find themselves bound for life to all kinds of types.
How can this be prevented without damaging the status of the contract?
How can you protect young people who will do anything for their dream?
How does the music industry work in the darkest corners behind the scenes?
No Knesset member had any answers.
And why should they have them?
That's why I recruited two lawyers specializing in music copyright, who agreed, pro bono, to sit down for two months and draft a bill that would be effective enough to correct the status quo, and plausible enough to pass.
Then came countless meetings with representatives of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Culture, to discuss and debate.
After there was an agreed upon text, I had to spend long days in the Knesset, chasing MKs in the corridors, wooing ministers, begging colleagues to agree to be interviewed, mustering a majority for each vote. Four years. No one paid me for my time, no one rewarded me No way. I was alone most of the time. I passed a law in the Knesset, and all I got was this t-shirt.
I passed a law in Israel, and I was just one, with no prior knowledge, no experience, no money.
Just lots of healthy rage and free time.
Think what I could do if I had a budget of 30 million shekels a year, if I had at my disposal more than 130 employees - researchers, lawyers, economists - who would submit position papers for me to the Knesset committees, who would meet with ministers for me, who would write opinion columns in the newspaper and who would be interviewed for every program .
Think what I could do if I had a successful website and a magazine at my disposal.
Think what I could do if I wanted to change the State of Israel completely, so that it would be in my image and likeness.
From now on, the state of Ayia Korem.
The Ecclesiastical Forum started its activity in Israel about a decade ago.
And if the slandered new fund is partially financed with non-Israeli money, the Kehalat Forum is financed with 100 percent foreign money.
Its major contributors are the Americans Jeffrey Yass and Arthur Danchik, and today it is one of the largest research institutes in Israel.
It seems that his goals are the dismantling of the welfare state and the weakening of the justice system.
They are behind the controversial nationality law, but they are practically involved in almost every area of our lives - among others, in education, health, housing and transportation.
From a review of the documents, position papers and interviews, it seems that the clergy aspire to create an education system in which those whose hands achieve - their children will benefit from an excellent private education.
They do not mention the poor, who, like in the US, will have to make do with backward schools, plagued by violence and a constant shortage of personnel. Ecclesiastes experts and researchers are pushing to weaken the power of the doctors' and nurses' organizations in public medicine, which is collapsing anyway, and are working in favor of private medical services for those who can afford them. Ecclesiastes Opponents of state subsidized housing, and were certainly happy when the public housing law expired this week without being renewed. Single mothers and the disabled will have to find another arrangement for themselves soon.
Change is hard.
Especially when there are 120 members of the Knesset and members of the Knesset, representatives of the public, standing in your way.
You can shower them with respect and honors, if we assume you have at your disposal a means of communication or a pampering promotion budget on social networks.
If you start from the premise that most of them are interested in doing good in the world, you can try to convince them of your righteousness.
Ayelet Shaked did not intend to deceive anyone when she quoted in one of her speeches as Minister of Justice entire paragraphs from a Ecclesiastical position paper, as if they were the fruit of her fevered brain.
She apparently believed it.
I assume that Yoav Kish wholeheartedly chose a Kehalat representative for Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Education. Yariv Levin and Simcha Rothman really believe in the legal reform that was born and formulated in the Kehalat ministries.
The only question that remains is: do you believe?
Are you interested in living in the state of Kehalat?
Because that's where we're taking giant steps.
And if you are already changing the country, I recommend the country of Aya Korem.
I have more fun.
were we wrong
We will fix it!
If you found an error in the article, we would appreciate it if you shared it with us