The Prime Minister announced the training of his cabinet on Wednesday. He was forced to make important concessions to his extreme right allies, at the forefront of which the Jewish supremacist Itamar Ben Gvir.
by Louis Imbert (Jerusalem, correspondent)
After seven weeks of negotiations on Wednesday, December 21, Benyamin Netanyahu ended up announcing, twenty minutes before the end of the period granted by the president, Isaac Herzog, that he had a government. A cabinet, which for the first time in the history of Israel, will be composed exclusively of right -wing parties.
was to be a formality. But as a family affair, it stretched in tension and distrust. By refraining from claiming a new delay, Mr. Netanyahu tries to restrict the requirements of his allies and members of his party, Likoud, who impose written commitments to him, before letting him return to business.
The ultra -backodox Jewish parties and the extreme religious right, which offered him his victory in the legislative elections on November 1, showed the little confidence they give to this Prime Minister, that the oldest followed for fifteen years in power, since the 1990s. Several political proposals must be decided before a vote of confidence of the Knesset, and the swearing in the ministers, by the end of the year.
increase of the police budget
The Jewish supremacist Itamar Ben Gvir, obtains a ministry of national security at the extensive perimeter. Sentenced in 2007 for incitement to hatred and support for a terrorist organization, he negotiated an increase in the police budget. He wishes to submit the country’s general commissioner, chief of the police, to his direct authority, to fix the policy in matters of surveys, and to define the duration of the latter. He must withdraw from the army the control of the border police, active in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
This requires a law, which the Knesset must vote in third reading next week. The country’s general prosecutor, Gali Baharav-Miara, warned, on December 15, against a “politicization of the police” which would risk leading “to a severe violation of the fundamental principles of the rule of law: Equality, absence of arbitrariness, and absence of partiality “. Mr. Ben Gvir opposes the sovereignty of the people and elected officials, believing that she is “wrong to think that she is the Prime Minister of the State of Israel”.
a Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the extreme religious right from the colonies, has to drop the Ministry of Finance. His party also obtains a second ministry within that of Defense. This unprecedented position, to which parliamentarians must also devote a law, would allow Mr. Smotrich to influence the administration of occupied Palestinian territories and colonies. To the chagrin of the soldiers, who are added a kind of proconsul.
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