Political Commentary and Election Analysis

This is basically live-broadcast suicide. Let's go.

Come hallucinate with us. TheMarker's election funding.

Three rounds, starting with the lightest. High-tech or politics?

High-tech.

Weights or running?

Weights.

Jerusalem or Tel Aviv?

Jerusalem.

Right or center?

Right.

A book or a podcast?

A book.

Coffee parliament or a cabinet meeting?

Coffee parliament.

We'll move on to medium weight. Answer: lift or lower.

Okay.

A unity government with Netanyahu.

Lower.

A constitution in Israel.

Lift.

Civil marriage.

Establishing a civil family in Israel? Yes.

Term limits for the prime minister.

Yes. Eight years.

Public transportation on Shabbat.

Yes, but not in religious communities.

A government with the Haredim.

With Deri and Goldknopf? Absolutely not.

And we'll finish with the heavy stuff. As prime minister, where did you go wrong?

I didn't strengthen politics enough. I only dealt with running

the country. A crazy mistake. It won't happen again.

You promised one million shekels per apartment for every reservist. Where will the money come from?

The budgetary source for this is 13 billion shekels.

of the Mechir Lamishtaken program and another two billion shekels

for daycare subsidies, which today are spread out and mostly

go to draft dodgers who chose not

to serve or work.

What’s the most urgent problem in your view?

The Haredi state rising up around us. Each of us is currently carrying

a 15-kilogram burden on our backs. We’re funding this

celebration. It’s simply live suicide.

What scares you?

Something happening to my children or something. Another four years of

Smotrich, Ben Gvir, Goldknopf, Deri and Bibi.

The State of Israel will be completely ostracized, and we’ll become

a Third World country like Zimbabwe. How much lower will I drag

myself in these elections?