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Part Two - The Structure of the Government and its Reduction

Areas Discussed

Zehut believes that the method and the organizational structure of the Israeli government requires more than a few repairs and improvements – some specific and some large-scale - that will bear multiple consequences. This platform will not include all the proposals and ideas in this area, but will present those proposals that can be implemented relatively straightforwardly within the framework of the existing structure.

In this part of the platform we will present four super-issues:

Reduction of the state apparatus together with opposition to excessive legislation are two sides of the same coin. Zehut advocates clear and effective governance alongside the expansion of individual and community liberties. Reduction of the state apparatus and excessive legislation is designed not only to improve the efficiency of government and enhance governance, but also to transfer many responsibilities from the government to the public, with the understanding that the deployment of government responsibility in these areas harms the public and is contrary to its benefit.

While the chapter on reduction of the state apparatus and restraint of legislation deals mostly with the framework, the chapter on the community model proposes real change and innovation in the relationship between the citizen and the government. This chapter is the foundation for all the solutions that Zehut offers in the remainder of the platform, and is foundational in Zehut's view of the world in general. Liberty, identity and meaning can flourish on the basis of a thriving independent community, as it always had been for the People of Israel, and as it should be.

The chapter on the judicial system does not deal with the problems of the Israeli justice system from a professional and clerical perspective, but rather with the judicial branch as one of the main pillars of the Israeli government, and about the relationship between this branch and the executive and legislative branches. Zehut believes that the balance between the branches has been severely breached in recent decades, and that there are significant structural problems that cause this imbalance. The practical steps that Zehut offers in this chapter are key to the successful implementation of the first two chapters, since they are the condition for the return of sovereignty to the public – the only legitimate sovereign in the free and democratic state that Israel wants and needs to be.

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