Opinion | Itamar, Get Off the Wall | Israel Hayom

It took Itamar Ben-Gvir many years to go from being a ruffian to a candidate for the Knesset and even the government. He may have used the magic hat from the series of books "Itamar Stories" written by author David Grossman.

In the story "Itamar and the Black Magic Hat" he discovers the hat of a magician who can turn anything into something else, but God forbid - it is impossible to turn back. However, Itamar eventually manages to return his father, whom he has turned into something else, to his former state.

Apparently, Ben-Gvir discovered how to reverse the patent, because otherwise his current conduct cannot be explained. after he managed to pass the High Court of Justice and the Election Commission, which approved his run; And after he was elected to the Knesset and joined the coalition with the explosive title of Minister of National Security, who has at his disposal the National Guard and Border Police battalions, one would think that he would seize the moment and prove that he has indeed changed.

After all, he said in his own voice that today he does not agree with everything that Rabbi Kahane said. In other words, it has the ability to change. He is also angry when mentioning his past as a convicted man for a series of activities in his youth. Therefore, it is not clear why he returned himself to the position of the child who keeps saying no and no. It's mine, and what's yours is mine, and I want more and more.

It should also be remembered that from the moment the government was formed, it was clear that at one point or another, Ben-Gvir, who took upon himself the heavy task of restoring personal security to the streets of cities, would try to place the blame on someone else if he did not succeed. One might have assumed that he would try to differentiate himself from the coalition in order to capture more and more voices from the right. It was assumed that this would happen closer to the next election.

A little more than four months have passed since the formation of the government, and it seems that Itamar continues to "walk on walls," and instead of devoting himself to his job without tricks or shticks, he behaves as if elections are coming. And there is something to be done. Crime is rampant, and the murders in the Arab sector do not stop – just last weekend there were three murders. There is no personal security for citizens.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also has a duty to lead this train, which is currently galloping into the abyss. Instead of telling Ben-Gvir that if he wants to, he can resign, it's better for him to shut up or actually fire him, because threatening a gun without bullets doesn't indicate much political wisdom. It said: "If you want to shoot - shoot, don't talk".

Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir have nowhere else to go right now, and you don't need to be a trained political analyst to say that. Regardless of the indictment and the legal reform, which keep centrist parties away from Netanyahu like a pandemic, Netanyahu has no alternative to Ben-Gvir, and Ben-Gvir has no other government to join.

But both have a state to run and a duty, because when they were sworn in as ministers, they swore to do everything they could for the good of the country.

On Saturday, as I watched King Charles III's proclamation, the exemplary order in which it was conducted, the seriousness with which everyone took this rather unnecessary ritual in the 21st century, I wondered if what would save us from ourselves might be the restoration of the British Mandate. A grim joke in an equally bleak present.

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