It costs me health to admit, but Rani Rahav was right when he attacked Esti Ginzburg

The publicist published a post in which he claimed that the new pregnancy of Ginzburg and her husband Adi Keisman is a finger in the eyes of quite a few people whose spouses owe money, ostensibly.

Strider Schleider Putschnik

19/11/2021

Friday, 19 November 2021, 00:10 Updated: 00:19

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I agreed with him.

Rahav (Photo: Nir Peking)

Here's a pile of weird words I did not think I would type: Rani Rahav is right. Earlier this week, publicist seller published a post critical and aggressive dealing with pregnancy third model Esti Ginzburg and her husband, businessman Adi Keizman. Essence Briefly: new pregnancy of the couple is a finger in the eyes of many people in their need to couple money, apparently.

Each story around Keisman's business is not entirely clear, but what is known is that one bright day and quite surprisingly he and his wife disappeared from Israel and moved their lives to the US, leaving behind many question marks, and perhaps even some people who think they deserve their money back.

There is a mechanism, which I admit was activated in my first reading of Rahav's post, that makes me uncomfortable in the face of criticism of someone else's pregnancy. Pregnancy is one of the most special, intimate, exciting and sensitive life events. And what is the connection at all between pregnancy and unsuccessful debts and businesses?

We have some almost automatic tendency to treat the issue of the birth of children as something extra-territorial, hovering over everything and also enjoying some status of sanctity.

Especially in Israel, which celebrates every round belly (provided it is for the right reason) and every baby that is born, because children are joy, and children are a blessing and it is known that "every baby brings his luck."

One might think that fetuses emerge from the womb as they clutch a pay slip or a chubby check with their fists.

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Economic decision.

Keisman and Ginzburg (Photo: Nir Peking)

So it is, that it is not true. Believe me, I checked. I too until recently thought I would have four children. But then I realized I didn’t really have the money (or power) for a fourth child. The decision to have a child is also an economic decision, and the decision to have another child (when you already have a child or other children at home) is even more so. Almost every family in Israel knows how to do this calculation.

For example, in recent years a fourth child has become a kind of status symbol in our places. Why? Because three more children fit in the back seat of a standard family car, and you can live with them relatively comfortably even in an average four-room apartment (and all the more so in a 5-room apartment). But everyone who considered having a fourth child also sat down to do the math: having to replace the car with a 7-seater car, a larger apartment ... and this without even referring to the ongoing costs of food, education, daycare, classes, etc. A new car and a new apartment, even before the child was born and asked for something to eat.

The Turtles, the nouveau riche family of a great country, recognized this a few years ago, when they recommended a fourth child to "one who can afford it."

And this is true not only for the fourth child - but also for the second, and the third and all the more so for the sixth and eighth and so on.

Children is something we should afford, only if we can.

This passage that is prevalent among us in all sorts of versions and slogans whose essence is the same and claims that having children is a sacred goal, a noble mission and its importance transcends everything else including our economic feasibility to allow these children (and ourselves) reasonable living conditions - is wrong.

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Discomfort replaced by consent.

Ginzburg and Rahav (Photo: Nir Peking, Instagram)

This debate, which until recently was not entirely acceptable even to talk about openly, has recently been reinforced by a surprising direction - the ecological / climatic angle. The severe climate crisis we are all in sharpens the understanding that the children who have already been born to us in recent years may not be able to live at all on the burning and perishable ball we have created for them in years of neglect. At the same time, there is also the claim that increasing the world population in the current situation also does not really contribute to the problem.

Either way, it's still a very charged and sensitive issue. Certainly in Israel that cultivates fairly conservative family values. But as a talented Rahav writes: "Do not enter a Chanel store, and do not celebrate, do not live in an expensive villa with a caregiver and assistant, drive a Jeep Range Rover and a luxury Porsche and do not live at the expense of others as long as you owe a lot of money to a lot of people" - our heart nods By consent. It really does not matter to shop in designer stores and walk around abroad in a fancy jeep and repress and act as if your financial situation turned a plus, while there are "dozens of people walking around without an apartment and losing their savings". (Quotes from Rahav's post).

And listen, it may not be that pleasant to get into this corner, but on second thought I can totally understand how this third Keysman-Ginzburg third pregnancy is a triple finger for people who think they deserve something different from this couple, whether it's money or answers.

Does this mean that anyone who owes money, or is in some kind of financial uncertainty is not allowed to have children?

No.

But should economic consideration be part of decision-making?

Yes.

In my opinion, always.

No matter what your financial situation.

And more than that, I argue that for most people it also really goes into considerations.

So maybe we can already stop pretending that mixing money and babies is obscene?

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