Gilad Erdan, Likud’s incoming Home Front Defense and Communications Minister, wraps up the debate ahead of the swearing-in of the individual ministers.
Minister Gilad Erdan speaking in the Knesset Monday. (Screenshot: Knesset Channel)
He takes issue with Yachimovich’s bitter speech, attacking the lack of government ideology. He cites her salary, of NIS 56,000, in response to her mention of the (far higher) salaries of Yair Lapid and Yaakov Peri.
Overall, Erdan says, Israel has been doing pretty well lately — socially and economically — especially by comparison to many of its neighbors.
Ministers are gathering again in the plenum now, for the resumption of the swearing-in ceremony. Yachimovich is texting; Netanyahu is talking with Shas Mks and United Torah Judaism MKs. He’s having a long chat with Shas’s Eli Yishai. They may not be in the coalition together, but the personal bridges are evidently not broken.
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