Time to rebuild the government before it's fully destroyed - opinion
| Published date | 26 April 2024 |
| Author | MORAN ZER KATZENSTEIN |
| Publication title | Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel) |
The Israeli anxiety threshold, which was already unhealthy, was reaching its peak.
Then it was revealed that a Zion Wing plane, the Air Force One of the Israeli prime minister, took off without informing who was on it. Was someone running away? Were we sending a designated survival government abroad? Was a nuclear strike expected?
The prime minister did not update the public, and no one made an official statement until 10:41 p.m. when the prime minister made a laconic statement that an Iranian attack was expected.
We were first told that the attack would arrive in nine hours, but that very quickly went down to three hours. "There are cruise missiles on the way," they said.
Iran revealed that they had placed a stopwatch at the top of a central square, counting down to the destruction of Israel. A little after midnight, our airspace was closed.
The country is in search of hope
What do we do now? The whole country was awake, immobile in front of the television, waiting for comfort, hope, information, anything.
Do we go to sleep? Wake the children? The government must have the solutions. Echoes of explosions were heard around Jerusalem, no sirens sounding, then the sirens came, then reports of fallen missiles.
Then came the announcement of a significant Israeli response. We understand: We are in a regional war. Against the backdrop of the Iranian attack – and it is quite difficult to mention real life at this point – the Education Ministry announced that schools would be closed for 48 hours. Home Front Command then announced that workplaces may continue operating as usual.
Women are missing in the government's equation
ISRAEL HAS yet to solve the impossible equation, in its 76 years, in which workplaces are open while schools are closed. What is the obvious missing factor in the equation? Women.
In most cases, women will stay at home and not go to work. Behind this decision is also an economic consideration, which states that the loss of a woman's work day to the familial income is a smaller loss than that of a man.
That is only possibly true, and it requires correction. The ambiguity regarding this and the lack of transparency in the decision-making processes is disturbing. Some argue that there is no decision-making process at all and that another thing we have not yet learned from...
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