Yair Netanyahu visits the charity and help project for the residents of the south and the north of Shai Graucher from the association "Together we will win"/Instgram
On Saturday evening, at about nine o'clock, a strange thing happened: my television, which up to that moment was dealing with news and its meaning, as usual, suddenly jet-lagged back half a year and broadcast an article that seemed to be taken from one of the editions before October 6. For those who didn't watch or didn't scroll through the social networks over the weekend, we will find out that this is an investigative article that dealt with the security of Yair Netanyahu, the son of the Prime Minister in exile in Miami: why is he even secured and how much is it costing us?
The investigation was entrusted to Ilan Lukach, a veteran of the News 12 magazine reporters and one who knows how to tell a story. The story was indeed interesting and left no stone unturned on the way: who decided that Yair was entitled to security, was it a real need for security or was it just a matter of manners, what does the service think about the issue - and how much is the estimated cost of guarding the junior? If these are indeed correct and interesting chapter heads and even if I give Lukacs the credit for having every word in stone, why did I still shift uncomfortably in front of the screen?
Because let's face the truth: security that costs two and a half million shekels a year would not have been covered in a major article in the Friday studio if it hadn't been for the prime minister's son who hates the broadcasting system and Lukacs himself.
Ilan Lukach. Knows how to tell a story, but barked up the wrong tree this time/screenshot, Twitter
The Kennedy family and the Addams family
how do i know I didn't even need an investigation: Lukács himself volunteers his criticism of the prime minister and his workers every day to his tens of thousands of followers on the Internet. It's perfectly fine, it's his right - and I'll also add that I share a large part of the criticism - but that's not exactly what authorizes you to be ignorant of a matter that lies between news and gossip, where you're asked to come to an "investigation", with or without quotation marks, with clean hands.
Why the quotation marks? Not because I doubt the truth of the facts presented by Lukács, but because most of them were already known. Yair Netanyahu, like his mother, is a red sheet against anyone who wishes to bash Netanyahu the father or the spouse. That's why all his exploits are reviewed throughout the network, often without even the certain stateliness (or sticking only to the facts) required by the platform of Channel 12.
The feeling is that Lukacs did not really want to reveal anything new that we didn't know before about the security of the Prime Minister's son, but to parade around as figures Between which you can draw lines that will reveal a very unflattering portrait of Netanyahu and his family: less of the Kennedy family and more of the Adams family. For example, Haaretz journalist Uri Meshgav is brought as a sort of expert witness. Mashgav does not need my approval for being a sharp journalist, but at the same time he is one of the prime minister's biting critics - and I was gentle: Mashgav is one of those who see Netanyahu as the father of every sin, from the internal rift among us to global warming (well, well, maybe the latter is not his fault even according to Mishgav).
Mesgav provides regular details of the flight, lodging and security expenses of Netanyahu and his family during their travels in Israel and abroad, he also believes that the Prime Minister's frail health is hidden from the public eye, just like issues in the field of mental health, which apparently concern his family. Every test flight of "Kenaf Zion" is scanned By him with iron combs.
Don't get it wrong: it is possible that he is describing things as they are, it is possible that he is thereby doing an important service to his reading public, but what of all this makes him an expert witness for a colleague's journalistic investigation on the very same subject? And when this is the case, one cannot help but wonder Did Lukács really come to his investigation with a desire to reveal some hidden truth, or did he simply want to visit the sin of fathers on sons.
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"The famous avarice"
It will be said right away, the (not so) young Netanyahu is a finger in the eye. According to what is attributed to him in the media, he inherited his father's arrogance with his mother's social sensitivity.
His more serious texts are still ringing in our ears, such as the dialogue from the "Posiket" club where he allegedly asks for prostitution services to be financed for him. I want to say: the disgust cries out to the heavens - it also cries out due to the fact that with the two and a half million shekels that the state spends every year on his security, according to Lukach's article, it would be possible (for example) to integrate some children with special needs into regular education, it would be possible to finance some institutions that save women from violent spouses, it was possible to save some small businesses of evacuees from Kiryat Shmona to Sderot and more.
The last sentence is already taken from the discourse of this time. That is, if the prime minister wanted to demonstrate state responsibility, he should have required his son to live in his parents' secure house in Laos, which would have offset a large part of the security expenses, some of which are related to staying in a luxury apartment in Miami and the round-trip flights of the security guards.
It is certainly possible that there is a point in faulting a spoiled rich son who (also) lives at our expense in Miami, but most of the embarrassing facts related to Netanyahu and his family were already known before Lukacs's investigation, I will add and say: they were known even before the last elections, the ones in which Netanyahu won. Meaning - those who believe already dislike him anyway and voted against him. Those who choose not to believe (or what seems more likely: believe but still prefer him, for a variety of reasons) will not be convinced by this investigation either.
And when it is combined with descriptions relating to the "famous pursuit of power and avarice" (so Lukács said in his voice), the suspicion arises that the recitation of such sentences as a summary was the purpose of the investigation even before it started. This does not mean that it is not true, but that the one who scolds the Prime Minister for his responsibility for his son's seemingly promiscuous conduct, comes with the conclusion from home, that is, - did not go to the article with the minimum of natural curiosity that would make it interesting.
Netanyahu at the meeting of the political and security cabinet. A line of omission is stretched between Lukács' article on Saturday evening and the neglect of the coverage of the demonstration of the families of the abductees in Motsaya/Government Press Office, Amos Ben Gershom
Playing into Netanyahu's hands
Contrary to the rumors that have been surrounding the Netanyahu family for years, since October 7th another criticism has been added that can be directed at the Prime Minister for his actions and especially for his omissions. If Lukacs had chosen these (and no, noting the fact that the security guards are eager to return to Israel, mobilize and fight in Gaza, is not enough to involve the investigation in the events of the war), let's say - they are even the news system he is a member of claimed (in the headline of the Moschai Shabbat edition) that Netanyahu alone is failing A hostage deal in which all the other members of the cabinet and the heads of the security services take sides.
When he is asked again how much the apparently devious habits of the Netanyahu family are costing us, he returns the discourse to exactly the place Netanyahu wants to return: to either love Bibi or hate him. If there was, after all, a refreshing innovation in the article, it came from the mouth of the edition's presenter, Danny Kushmaro, who read the Netanyahu family's response and did not content himself with bringing it as a tongue-in-cheek, as usual, but added a comment that confronted it with the facts and in fact canceled it altogether.
It was a refreshing and important innovation, in view of a reality where every article about the Prime Minister's exploits ends with a tiresome reading of a response, obligatory but mostly false, on his behalf.
News 12 missed the demonstration they themselves promoted, or maybe they preferred to abandon the abductees in favor of MasterChef?/Erez Harel
Kidnapped as reality refugees
And here's a little wisdom in retrospect: If on Friday night I had the feeling that Lukacs, even if he was right in the details, missed the mark and "barked up the wrong tree", the Shabbat mornings came and confirmed this fact, when the News 12 network missed from a shower the crazy payoff surrounding the intensification The demonstrations for the kidnapping deal, which were wrapped up in lawsuits to remove Netanyahu from his seat.
If anyone thought that the mass demonstrations would not resume as long as Gantz and Eisenkot were in the government, then they were wrong - and the events that began last night (and are expected to escalate in the coming days, according to all indications) are the proof of that. This news, despite early indications, was missed by News 12 As if there were 8,200 on the evening of October 7. Their enslavement to the "MasterChef" ratings locomotive on an evening that could yet turn out to be a spark that ignited a great flame was obscene by any standard. So obscene
that it was feared that Channel 12, the one The abductees in consciousness and who has a large stake in making their return the overarching goal of the war, treated them as he treats reality stars: elevating them as much as they serve him, and turning them into "reality refugees" when it is necessary to make room for new stars, for example a young contender with an exciting life story (Bar Levy, really cute) in the "Master Chef" qualifiers. Of course, the program was recorded before October 7, but the episode was broadcast instead of live coverage of the clashes between the police and the protesters.
The channel that faithfully covered such a yellow story from the Prime Minister's environment (and here the blame is not on Lukacs, of course, but in his managers), for the benefit of the Shabbat evening RLB crowd, abandoning the kidnapped to their fate, for the sake of the traditional Shabbat evening crowd, the one who might prefer delicacies from Mother's house with the sweet scent of national unity.
There will be those who say that this is commercial television, but even if he is right, we are dealing with commercial television that is stuck upside down like the train known as "Anaconda" in an amusement park, one that makes you sick.
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