After a stormy extended cabinet meeting last Thursday night, which sparked many controversies in the emergency government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted on Sunday that there was a "plague of leaks," saying that he was "not willing to continue like this" and that: "No country works like this." Subsequently, he again ordered the promotion of the Polygraph Law, according to which anyone who sits in cabinets and security discussions – including the political and professional echelons – will undergo a polygraph.
Against the backdrop of tension in the coalition, senior coalition officials criticized Blue and White ministers for boycotting the cabinet meeting. "This is childish behavior. They didn't just join the War Cabinet. Collective responsibility is collective responsibility. How can they now boast of the government-approved assistance to reservists? We can already see in practice in the meetings the split between the ministers of the state camp and the ministers of New Hope."
Later in the discussion, the government discussed the possibility of returning the Palestinian residents to the northern Gaza Strip.
Gen. Toledano: "We're not letting them go back to the north."
Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir: "I asked about an axis that is a continuation of the coastal road. Based on my investigations, I understand that they were indeed allowed to return."
Gen. Toledano: "Today the route is closed and they won't be allowed to return. In addition, it is also not easy for them to live in the north in terms of the conditions there."
Ben-Gvir: "I heard that there are places like the Rimal neighborhood that are still intact and that's where they're coming back."
Gen. Toledano: Neither you nor I live there.
Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz: Returning to the northern Gaza Strip does not come together with cleaning up the area.
In a discussion on the alert squads in the north, Maj. Gen. Toledano said that there is a reduction in the plan for the army's alert squads on the Lebanese border.
Ben-Gvir: "That's a terrible mistake! We in the police are setting up more and more classrooms, we've already opened 900 of them, and you're closing such a blessed program?"
A source in the treasury: "It costs us reserve days."
Ben-Gvir: "This is human life, in any case there is no orderly transfer of the stick, it is impossible to close on-call classrooms just like that. Let's try to pass them on to the police."
Prime Minister Netanyahu: "As a matter of policy, I am in favor of significantly expanding the alert classes, even within the Green Line. We need to examine in the current situation what is the best way to divide this crack."
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