Opposition Leader Yair Lapid presented at a press conference in Tel Aviv on Thursday a proposal for an immediate action plan to improve civil service and care: "Get out of the shock, go to work, we will help." The chairman of the state camp, Minister Benny Gantz, will also immediately hold a press conference in which he will address the war.
"You can understand the shock and paralysis of the government systems in the early days, you can't understand why the system hasn't come out of the shock yet," Lapid said at the press conference. "In order to restart the systems, we built a national plan to improve civilian service and care, which can and should be implemented even during the fighting. We worked with experts, with mayors, with people who ran government ministries in times of emergency and in peacetime."
Torch. "The government needs to function", photo: Gideon Markowitz
Lapid said he had forwarded the plan to the Prime Minister's Office, the Finance Ministry and the Local Government Center. His proposal includes eight first steps that the government should take to return the economy and its citizens to a path of functioning life:
1. Talk to citizens - appoint an official civilian spokesperson to update the public daily.
Establishment of an International Information Directorate.
2. Presenting a plan to all residents who were evacuated from their homes. Transfer of authority and budgets to the local government, finding housing solutions, doubling the initial grant to evacuees. Establishment of a "mobile government complex".
3. Special assistance to small and medium businesses – economic certainty, relief, flexible unpaid leave and grants.
4. Assistance to reservists and their families – economic and flexible relief. Professional retraining for the agriculture and construction industry.
Lapid presents the program, photo: Gideon Markowitz
5. Maintaining an optimal education system and school routine, with emotional support for the children, with an emphasis on finding educational frameworks for the evacuated communities.
6. Mental health – expanding the response. Recruitment of caregivers and transfer of budgets and responsibilities to local authorities.
7. Strengthening personal security – reorganizing the security of communities: alert squads, increasing the police, etc., together with the local authorities, the Home Front Command, and the Ministry of National Security.
8. Closing unnecessary government ministries and transferring coalition funds, budgets, and standards for the emergency, and strengthening local government.
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