Shouts and confrontations at the cabinet meeting – which was stopped in the middle

The cabinet ministers are currently discussing the third phase of the exit from the third blockade, after a series of unrelated issues related to Corona, such as grants for the disabled, a plan to reduce violence in the Arab sector and a campaign for fighters and SLA personnel who served in the Lebanese security zone. The meeting exploded and resumed after about half an hour.

“I met before the cabinet meeting with a number of business owners,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the hearing. “Everyone has admitted that they received the government assistance and they really appreciate it. They need help and say they will not be able to wait another month. The heart is sour.” The prime minister addressed Defense Minister Bnei Gantz and attacked him amid opposition to the economic plan he presented with the finance minister: “Why are you opposed to giving help? Why are you blocking giving the money now?”. Ganz replied that the state budget would solve everything, and asked: “Why wait for the last minute?”.

Netanyahu said that “all the excuses are over,” and Finance Minister Israel Katz added that the delay harms businesses unnecessarily. “This is an election economy,” Ganz said, while Netanyahu said, “there is no one to talk to.” Katz added that “business assistance passed after I worked hard, it moved to the Ministry of Justice. Today I held discussions on an incentive for the unemployed to return to work, it is a need that has arisen now. My son turned to you, let’s continue talking, and when I mentioned praise your support “Also an economic plan that helped, now things have stopped. I am ready to talk.”

Ganz replied to Katz: “Distinguish between two different things, you are talking about a plan that was not presented. By and large I am in favor of all things.” Katz asked “So why don’t you give the green light?” And Gantz replied, “There are things here that are election bribes.”

Katz asked: “How can it be that the government does not discuss the plan and the legal system does not say whether it gives or not?”. Mandelblit replied: “We have nothing we did not respond to.” Katz: “You should check.” The ombudsman claimed that “we receive fragments of transparencies, these are not proposals, everything is late. We have no material. There are chapter headings of something you published in the media a month ago. This is wrong”.

Gantz joined the ombudsman and said that the officials will cooperate when they receive the materials. “You play games,” Gantz said, and Netanyahu replied: “So there is no problem.” Mandelblit: “You say no problem, we do not know the proposals? What has passed is happiness. The property tax, social security and health basket were transferred and approved. “

Ganz attacked Katz: “You send things at 22:00 at night so that this does not happen and you accuse us of meeting the government.” Katz replied: “I transferred everything to the attorney general,” and Mandelblit insisted: “There is nothing stuck with us.”

Deputy Attorney General Raz Nizri responded to Katz’s attack and said: “The lawyers are not blocking anything concrete at the moment. If you want to quarrel between the blocs, do it regardless of us. “

Netanyahu attacked Gantz again: “The business owners do not get help because you in blue and white refuse to bring it up for discussion. Due to your statements, we are withholding money from the business owners. I would like to have this discussion at the next meeting.”

Minister Hili Trooper replied to Netanyahu: “How are you rolling the cancellation of the economic plan on us? You did not bring a budget, how are we to blame for this?”.

Mandelblit attacked Katz: “Your offer is just slogans, it is a two-line reflection, it is not an offer!”. Katz replied, “We provided you with the relevant material,” and Nazri replied, “You did not justify the urgency.” Netanyahu addressed Nazri: “You are legal advisers, not legal dictators.”

Following the exchange of accusations, Ganz blew up the cabinet meeting and ordered blue and white ministers to leave. “It has become a yeshiva of Israel Katz against other elements in the government,” Ganz said. The meeting resumed after about half an hour.

At the beginning of the meeting, Netanyahu referred to the continuation of the vaccination campaign, the opening of the entire education system and the outline for the return of Israelis to Israel for voting in the elections – according to an outline that Minister of Transport Miri Regev will present. Netanyahu opened his remarks by saying: “The main effort is to complete the vaccination campaign for the entire population, especially for the population over the age of 50. We must continue to abide by the rules and fly forward with the vaccines.” On the violations on Purim he said: “The violations in the secular and ultra-Orthodox public are unbearable, I hope they will not cost us dearly.

“If we manage to vaccinate 300-200 thousand people over the age of 50 who are still unvaccinated, we have largely defeated the corona,” Netanyahu added. “We store tens of thousands a day and it will take us more days, with great effort for another two weeks probably, but this thing takes us out of danger because almost all the serious illness and deaths are at these ages.

“We want to continue opening up the education system,” Netanyahu continued. “There is a stabilization in the number of difficult patients. If we can maintain a stable number and even reduce the number of difficult patients, we will be able to achieve our goal. This is the most important measure – the number of difficult patients.”

Netanyahu added: “We have a good chance of being ahead of the whole world in terms of vaccines. It is not obvious that a country of nine million people will get the rest of the countries in the world. The whole world is competing for these vaccines. We must bring tens of millions more vaccines. A top that I took on. “

Ganz then said: “We have a very serious problem in the Exceptions Committee regarding Ben Gurion Airport. Anyone who wants to return home should be allowed to do so. There is a committee that has considered considerations that I hope are relevant, but the only way to know this is to start publishing the committee’s decisions. “We need to get to a situation where every Israeli who wants to return home can return. It can be done with tests before and staying in isolation after a flight, and cause a situation where Israelis can return home. I checked and did not find a situation like ours in the world.”

In his remarks, Ganz also addressed the issue of continuing to open the education system: “Teachers worked hard even during the Corona period. We should give them the proper compensation and together with them move forward and get going. We need to open grades 7-10 in the green and yellow cities. Our immune depth allows “We must also discuss with the teachers who worked very hard during this period and with the teachers’ organizations in order to make the necessary completions and give them adequate compensation. Only in this way can we move forward and get going and not in any other way.”