100 Days team
Based on the many and complex challenges the newly formed government will have to face Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Minister of Treasury Dr. Yuval Steinitz, to prepare a plan and a list of recommendations for the newly established government. Netanyahu has already shown that he has taken the 100 Days Committees recommendations as a platform for his newly established government. And it has already proven itself. “Our experience shows that plans to perform significant changes should be implemented in the newly formed government’s first one hundred days”, Arik Carmon, president of the Israel Democracy Institute, said. And indeed, history has proven that in order to perform real changes, such things must be done.
“Our aspiration to fulfill our aim has led us to focus on seven issues” Steinitz said in the opening chapter of the committee’s conclusion report and marked that the circumstances were the base of these issues:
1. Passing the 2009 budget,
2. Treating the credit crisis
3. Establishing an interface with the Washington’s new regime
4. Start the Education and Public Security System’s reform
5. Governmental stability reform
6. Implementation of the Plan and Construction Committees as well as the ILA (Israel Lands Administration) reforms.
7. “Economic Peace” with the Palestinian Authority”.
A government “by the book”
The first chapter, that deals with the urgent matter of an Israeli economy leadership in this period, opens with the quote:
” the need to urgently contend with current situation, led to a situation in which the economic situation is a number one priority. ”
The plan was handed to Mr. Netanyahu at the end of the month of March (March 23rd) in a formal ceremony, and indeed, less than two weeks later (April 24th), the committee’s recommendation was handed by Steinitz (this time under the title of Minister of treasury) to the government’s meeting
A few days later, an agenda suggestion to increase personal security was brought to the government’s table. The Likud party, which raised the fight against crime and violence as part of its platform during the general elections, discussed the issue in the committee’s report as well. According to the 100 Days Team’s recommendations, the goal mentioned above will be achieved by establishing municipal police departments which will reinforce presence in the streets. Minister of public security Yitzhak Aharonovich has already agreed to the plan, and thus, another important project had started.
The list of challenges and missions that the government and the people will have to handle is endless and the treatment of them has just begun. However, one point is clear: that the 100 Days Team has already proven that the “last in did first in thought” approach is irreplaceable.
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