Military Secretaries for all Cabinet Ministers in Zion....what next Social Secretaries, Masseurs and live in Hairdressers

Return of the alliance? Lapid backs Bennett

Lapid throws his weight behind erstwhile ally's ultimatum on military secretaries for Cabinet members.

Yair Lapid, Naftali Bennett


Yesh Atid chairperson MK Yair Lapid backed Jewish Home chairperson Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Friday, over his demand to have military secretaries appointed to every member of the Security Cabinet as a condition for supporting an expansion of the coalition.

"Bennett is right. As a condition to expand the coalition he is demanding only one thing: a deep repair in the work of the Security Cabinet. As someone who sat with him in the Cabinet, I can testify that the current situation is not reasonable," wrote Lapid on Facebook.

The support may be a first sign of a resurgent alliance between the two; back in the 2013 elections Lapid and Bennett signed an agreementvowing only to enter the government together, and their parties pushed joint legislation such as the controversial haredi draft law before the two finally had a falling out.

In his backing of Bennett, the former Finance Minister wrote that Cabinet ministers do not receive in-depth information or go through any training process for their roles.

"For those who are interested in the topic, I recommend reading the chapters dealing with the work of the Cabinet in Ofer Shelah's book 'The Courage to Win.' As a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Ofer brings a clear and precise analysis there of the failings of the Cabinet (including in Protective Edge) and the required corrections in its work," wrote Lapid.

Lapid heaped praise on his erstwhile ally, writing, "Bennett is also worthy of appreciation for how in the cynical atmosphere in which everyone is busy only with the question of how comfortable their arm chair will be and how much money will go to those who are close to them, he placed a demand touching on the security of the state and the running of the government."

"But in this government those who make a list of cynical demands and only ask for portfolios and honor turn into someone who everyone wants to work with. On the other hand, those who don't ask anything for themselves but rather try to improve the workings of the political echelon are accused of opportunism and receive threats of being fired."

Lapid's comment refers to a report Thursday night in Channel 2 revealing how officials are trying to convince Bennett to support incoming Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman's entry to the coalition government, andthreatening Jewish Home ministers with being fired if the party does not support the widening of the coalition.

Bennett's demand for military secretaries and easier access to sensitive intelligence information comes after a report revealing faults in the Security Cabinet's functioning in Operation Protective Edge and the Second Lebanon War.

The Security Cabinet (Hebrew: הקבינט המדיני-ביטחוני‎‎, HaKabinet HaMedini-Bithoni) or Ministerial Committee on National Security Affairs^[1] (Hebrew: ועדת השרים לענייני ביטחון‎‎, Va'adat HaSarim LeInyanei Bitahon) is a narrow forum of "Inner Cabinet" within the Israeli Cabinet, headed by the Prime Minister of Israel, with the purpose of outlining a foreign and defense policy and implementing it. This smaller forum of the cabinet members, is designated to coordinate the diplomatic negotiations, and in times of crisis, especially war, it is designed to make quick and effective decisions.

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• 1The history and the idea behind the establishment of a Security Cabinet
  • 1.1The "War Cabinet"
• 2The structure of the Political-Security Cabinet
  • 2.1Cabinet members
  • 2.2Official authorization
• 3See also
• 4Notes

The history and the idea behind the establishment of a Security Cabinet[edit]

The idea of establishing a Security Cabinet was initially part of the Centre Party's platform of 1999 election, chaired by Yitzhak Mordechai. The party offered a new security plan, in which a Security Cabinet will be established for the purpose of implementing an effective peace and security plan. According to their platform, a new council for diplomatic planning and advising will be established, that will be headed by a person appointed by the Prime Minister, who will preside over small professional teams in the relevant fields. Furthermore, they suggested that the Prime Minister, Acting Prime Minister, Vice Prime Minister, the Director-Generals of the Defense, Foreign, and Treasury ministries, as well as the Chief of General Staff, chief of Shin Bet, and the Military Secretary to Prime Minister, will take part in the Security Cabinet meetings on regular basis, and that others presiding over the diplomatic negotiations or any other relevant officials will participate accordingly. The idea behind the Security Cabinet was to create a professional objective advising body to the Cabinet. The members would evaluate different situations, offer alternatives and oversight, and determine positions on the Cabinet and the army.

In practice, the forming of this body was based on section 6 of the "Government Law" of 2001^[2] that stipulated the following:

The Government shall have a ministers committee composed of: The Prime Minister—chairman, Acting Prime Minister, if such was appointed, Defence Minister, Interior Minister, Internal Security Minister and the Treasury Minister.

The Government may, upon the proposal of the Prime Minister, coopt an additional members to the committee, provided that the number of its members not aggregate exceeding half of the Cabinet Members.

Concerning the issues the minister's committee on national security will tackle, the law stipulated that:

(A) The diplomatic-security and settling issues shall be debated within the committee.

(B) The daily agenda of the committee, and the officials to be invited to participate in its meetings shall be determined by the Prime Minister, after consulting with the minister in charge.

(C) The Minister in charge, prior to any decision making, may demand on any matter debated within the committee to be moved to a full Cabinet meeting to be debated and resolved. The aforementioned shall not apply, should the Prime Minister be ascertain, after consulting with the minister in charge, that the circumstances concerning the matter requires an immediate decision or that there are other circumstances that justifies the committee's decision.

The "War Cabinet"[edit]

For more details on this topic, see Kitchen Cabinet of Israel.

During Yom Kippur War, a group of ministers was formed arbitrarily, and had assumed responsibility for taking fundamental decisions during that war. This group became to be known as "The War Cabinet", and later was also nicknamed "Golda's kitchen". The "War Cabinet" had made independent decisions during those emergency times, and the Government had approved those decisions only in retrospect. Against that background, already during those times, the question of the necessity and role of such a cabinet arose. On the other hand, some suggested that the Cabinet members should run the war as they see fit—without the need of getting anybody's approval.

The structure of the Political-Security Cabinet[edit]

Cabinet members[edit]

• Permanent members:

Appointment by law:

1. Prime Minister & Foreign Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu, Chairman
2. Defense Minister: Avigdor Lieberman
3. Internal Security Minister: Gilad Erdan
4. Justice Minister: Ayelet Shaked
5. Minister of Finance: Moshe Kahlon

Additional members:

1. Minister of Interior: Aryeh Deri
2. Minister of Transport and Road Safety & Intelligence and Atomic Energy Minister of Israel: Yisrael Katz
3. Minister of Education: Naftali Bennett
4. Minister of Immigrant Absorption: Ze'ev Elkin
5. Minister of Construction: Yoav Galant

Permanent invitees:

• Attorney General of Israel: Avichai Mandelblit
• National Security Council stand-in chief: Yaakov Nagel

Official authorization[edit]

• Israel's security agencies' objectives and its policies.
• Issues concerning the IDF, including the army's structure, deployment, alertness and its equipment, research and development in these fields, receiving the annual national intelligence estimate, and oversight on events evolving in these areas.
• Receiving information concerning intelligence matters, diplomatic issues, military and security operations.

Haaretz Newspaper the Enemy within Zion, Haaretz Shelanu .

Yesh Atid Chairman lambasted  left-wing anti Zionist Israeli paper after it publishes 'monstrous' article against IDF soldiers.

Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid had some choice words for the newspaper Ha’aretz after the left-wing daily ran a ferociously anti-Israel article by left-wing extremist Gideon Levy. During the last campaign in Gaza an article written  Levy in  Haaretz criticized the Israel Airforce pinpoint bombing campaign and the IDF's use of excessive force to minimize casualties and the duration of the action.

The piece, entitled “After me, for murder” – a mocking satire of the IDF slogan “after me” – offers the same sort of anti-Israel, anti-IDF screed that Levy has become famous – or infamous – for. Other recent pieces by Levy include “Israel is reborn into a monster”, in which the writer accused Israel of being “a nation so corrupt” that it cannot “be brought back to the straight and narrow.”

In his latest article, Levy launches into yet another rant targeting the Israeli army.

“Kill, soldiers, kill. Nothing bad at all will happen to you if you blow away a young Palestinian with three bullets fired at short range – your officers and Yair Lapid will cheer you on.”

“Shoot stone throwers without any worry, shoot at everyone suspicious – so long as they are Palestinian. And let’s be clear: [that means] shoot to kill. Not to stop, not to wound, but to kill. The legendary [IDF] slogan of “after me [into battle]” has now become “after me, to kill children; after me, to murder”.

Lapid, who found himself the target of Levy’s slings and arrows, responded on Thursday, blasting Ha’aretz, the article, and its author.

“This is a monstrous text, [published by] a newspaper that long ago went completely off the rails. He even accuses me of killing in the article, but I’m willing to forgo my own honor. But I’m absolutely unwilling to forgo the IDF’s honor.”

“Anyone who portrays our soldiers as indiscriminate murderers is both knowingly lying and legitimizing violence against them. In all of military history there has never been an army that did more to maintain a high ethical standard in combat and purity of arms [than Israel], but Ha’aretzdoesn’t care. We’re talking about a paper filled with the self-hatred of the radical left, and this article - like many others – is the paper’s way of legitimizing terrorism.

Haaretz (Hebrew: הארץ‎) (lit. "The Land [of Israel]", originally Ḥadashot Ha'aretz – Hebrew: חדשות הארץ‎, IPA: [χadaˈʃot haˈʔaʁets] – "News [of] the Land [of Israel]"[3]) is Israel's oldest daily newspaper. It was founded in 1918 and is now published in both Hebrew and English in Berliner format. The English edition is published and sold together with the International New York Times. Both Hebrew and English editions can be read on the Internet. In North America, it comes out as a weekly newspaper, combining articles from the Friday edition with a roundup from the rest of the week. It is known for its strongly left-wing and liberal stances on domestic and foreign issues.

History and ownership

Haaretz was first published in 1918 as a newspaper sponsored by the British military government in Palestine. In 1919, it was taken over by a group of socialist-oriented Zionists, mainly from Russia.[5] The newspaper was established on 18 June 1919 by a group of businessmen including prominent philanthropist Isaac Leib Goldberg, and initially, it was called Hadashot Ha'aretz ("News of the Land"). Later, the name was shortened to Haaretz. The literary section of the paper attracted leading Hebrew writers of the time.

The newspaper was initially published in Jerusalem. From 1919 to 1922, the paper was headed by a succession of editors, among them Leib Yaffe. It was shut down briefly due to a budgetary shortfall and reopened in Tel Aviv at the beginning of 1923 under the editorship of Moshe Glickson, who held the post for 15 years. The Tel Aviv municipality granted the paper financial support by paying in advance for future advertisements.

Salman Schocken, a wealthy German Jewish Zionist who owned a chain of department stores in Germany, bought the paper in 1937. His son, Gershom Schocken, became the chief editor in 1939 and held that position until his death in 1990.

Until August 2006, the Schocken family owned 100% of the Haaretz Group, but then the German publisher M. DuMont Schauberg acquired 25 percent of the shares The deal was negotiated with the help of former Israeli ambassador to Germany, Avi Primor. This deal was seen as controversial in Israel as DuMont Schauberg's father, Kurt Neven DuMont, was member of the German Nazi party, while his publishing house promoted Nazi ideology.

On 12 June 2011, it was announced that Russian-Israeli businessman Leonid Nevzlin had purchased a 20% stake in the Haaretz Group, buying 15% from the family and 5% from M. DuMont Schauberg. This means that the Schocken family now owns 60% and M. DuMont Schauberg and Leonid Nevzlin have 20% each.

In October 2012, a union strike mobilized to protest planned layoffs by the Haaretz management. As a consequence, both the Haaretz newspaper and its TheMarkerbusiness supplement were not printed for one day. According to Israel Radio, it was the first time since 1965 that a newspaper did not go to press on account of a strike.

Haaretz

Type	Daily Newspaper
Format	Berliner
Owner(s)	Schocken Family (60%) M. DuMont Schauberg(20%) Leonid Nevzlin (20%)
Publisher	Amos Schocken
Editor	Aluf Benn[1]
Founded	1919
Political alignment	liberal, political left
Language	Hebrew and English editions
Headquarters	Tel Aviv, Israel
Circulation	72,000 (Weekends: 100,000)[2]
Website	http://www.haaretz.co.il http://www.haaretz.com