 real is that Netanyahu for years he just didn't recognize how serious this problem is. I can tell you that people were coming to him and talking to him about how difficult it is, especially in the periphery, I mean far from Tel Aviv, even in Jerusalem, but if you go to the north, if you go to the south, there you had the serious problems. Netanyahu, although people were talking about it, just didn't recognize how bad the situation is. Now, if you heard his speech last week about the new government, now we realize that there is no other choice, but to handle it. And that's why that's one of the reasons he promised it during the campaign. But again, we are going to the practical question whether things are really going to change. It's a test for Netanyahu. It's a test for Bankview. And we now have to see what are they doing and not only talking about it. And that's another major question because you said it's also a test for Netanyahu. One of the big issues is he's burned a lot of political capital, putting this government together. What happens if they fail to actually deliver on their promises? Look, you know, we're on the second day. I think we'll have at least one year, you know, to try to enforce the new policies. In any case, they're going to have a lot of challenges internal from outside, just so what happened last week in the UN National Assembly. Of course, he's still, you know, well, even before talking about the Democratic administration, which, you know, have different views about maybe every issue when it comes to Israel. So, look, so we'll begin the war now. If, let's say, three years from now, so we have no achievements, and, you know, we'll see the politicians, we'll see the next elections coming. Then you might see coalition parties beginning to drop out. It's always a process. But another point which is important about that, Ariel, is that the current coalition, I would say, is a kind of post-trauma in a way that it's a year and a half. All of them were in the opposition, all of them in the parties. They were fighting the living or the former government so strongly. So, although there are going to be difficulties, the current coalition is going to stick one to each other. We're going to see these agreements. We already are seeing it when it comes to the LGBT community and so on. But we'll try to stick together because they know that there is another option, which is actually a left or center-left government, is for them not an option. Thank you very much for breaking all of that down for us, Ariel. That was Ariel Cajana of Israel Hayom to just explain some of that from the inside. We're now going to go back to our studio with Jonathan Reghev, who is going to talk to us a little bit more about the process. It's Marbing Veer takes over as the new chief of police. What happens next? How does he actually start asserting his will over the police and making things happen, bringing about the changes he's promised? More, perhaps, units coming from the border police and more border police forces, not necessarily police forces, but border police forces in places like the Negev, like the Galilee. That's his plan, whether he'll be able to do it or not. I'm not sure about that because, let's remember, the border police, as its name states, is meant to protect the borders, not mainland Israel. That's police work. But that's one aspect, perhaps. Others is perhaps bringing more budget to the police, being able to recruit more people to police, pay larger wages so that people and qualified people come into the police. These are just some of the plans. How will he fulfill those plans? That's another story. So we have the why. We have the how. What about the when? What's the time frame we're looking at here? Very good question. You asked it. It should have happened yesterday. But these things take time. I mean, the budget, actually the state of Israel, as of midnight, has no budget. The budget wasn't till the end of 2022. Now 2023 needs first to ferment a new budget. Only then will some of the plans come to life. A new budget, I don't think we'll sit in the next three months or so. So before that happens, I don't think we'll see any major change. And aside from the budget, what other major roadblocks are there in the way for Benghvera to start implementing his agenda? Not everybody is happy with his agenda. Not everybody is happy with seeing the police stopping to be an independent body and being part of a being basically enforced to a political figure such as a Tamar Benghvera. Many current police chiefs, former police chiefs are not very happy. Some of the people in the police will say, perhaps the leading officers will say, you know what, if this is a case, I choose to retire. It may happen. So if that's the case, how much sort of internal instability can the police handle? And if there is this sort of instability that you mentioned, well, what can the government, particularly Benghvera, do about it? Not much. I mean, on the one hand, you do want more qualified policemen, more qualified border policemen. On the other hand, losing some of the elite officers in this body, say the head of the Jerusalem Department, the head of the Tel Aviv Department, these are things that may happen. These are people that are clearly unhappy with the fact that now instead of being, instead of reporting to the police commissioner, they have to report to the minister. These are things that may happen. We have to see. There are a lot of questions arising, very few answers as of now. Maybe as of tomorrow, we'll start seeing that. That's something that everyone's definitely waiting for. I'm going to remind people once again, we are seeing Tamar Benghvera, the soon, the now we should say, national security minister getting ready to ascend to the stage and make his speech, his address to the nation as he takes his raft of new powers and shapes the future of Israeli law enforcement. It looks like we still have maybe a minute or so until that happens. So we're going to keep with you for at least a while longer. Jonathan, let's keep talking as we address some of the challenges. We've adjusted some of the pitfalls. One of the big other things we're looking for is the raft of new powers required a lot of last minute legislation to pass. What sort of opposition will Israel's opposition be able to mount to this because they have been extremely loud voices against it? Not in parliament simply because in parliament they're not strong enough. The opposition is made up of what, 50 or 51 members I believe, simply not strong enough, but a lot of opposition coming from the public. We already saw that on Thursday on the day that the government was sworn in, a very big demonstration outside parliament. We saw very big demonstrations in the days of the previous Netanyahu government. So opposition can come in the form of protests and things like that, not inside parliament, but public protests. Yes. Another interesting thing to see as we wait for Itamar Ben Beer to speak, there are a lot of ministries where ceremonies of this kind are taking place today. It's not by chance that we and practically everyone else are looking at this specific ceremony, the relations between Itamar Ben Beer, the current minister and the former minister, Omar Barlev, were tense to say the least. There have been some very vocal clashes between the two and it will be interesting to see how they refer to each other. Yes, there have been differences perhaps also between Mir Eregev and Miram Mikhaili in the Ministry of Transport, for example, or Gidun Saar, Niariv Levine in the Ministry of Justice also. But the differences here between Itamar Ben Beer, who's a controversial figure, and Omar Barlev, the relations between the two were very, very tense all along the way. In a few minutes we'll see how they refer to each other. It will be very interesting to see that. And that's actually a very good point. Are we expecting to see them start airing the ministry or the police's dirty laundry as a way of getting revenge or attacking each other? Not today, yes, tomorrow. Absolutely. I clearly expect that. I'm sure it will happen, just not today. We have Barlev taking the stand right now to begin speaking, so we're going to take this live and let you take a listen. The entering minister, heads of departments at the police, police commissioner, head of the jailing department, the O of the Ministry of Internal Security, heads of the fire department, steamed guests. In the Yom Kippur war, I was already two years in the army. Years before some of you were even born. At the beginning of the war, I fought in the Syrian front, and later in the Egyptian front. I was feeling that war. I was killed near the Suez Canal. Another friend of mine was killed the next day when we had to duck under a bombardment. Another friend of mine was killed a day later, an hour after the ceasefire came into effect when we had crossfire with the Egyptians. A few months later, when I was already a commander, I participated in the conquest of the Hermon Mountain, the top of the Hermon Mountain. As a commander, I fought against Fatah terrorists at the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv where they took hostages. I fought against terrorists from the popular front, and against other terrorist groups, and I participated in the freeing of Israeli hostages in Imtebe. I also fought in the first Lebanon war. Just before I became the commander of the elite commander unit, I participated in the killing of terrorists who took over a bus. Along with all that, I commanded tens of secret services along the border, all over the area. I walked in very dark nights, more than 350 kilometers in enemy territory of thousands of miles over enemy territory, but only when I became the minister of internal security, I started being, I started being guarded for 24 hours, and why? Not because of the Israel's enemies who wanted to kill me time and time again. Not because the terrorists from the different Palestinian organizations who wanted to kill me, but because Jews, Israeli citizens, threatened to hurt me. And why? What for? Because I said that there are extreme settlements against Palestinians, because I'm that little kid who says the truth when everybody walks away. Yes, there are differences in our people on a wide array of issues, too wide. But the fact should stand over those differences. And here, and here they are. In the last year, 134 files were opened for violent crimes in the West Bank, 40 percent more than 2021. Is it only because that nationalistic crimes were there more of it than the year before, or because Israeli police work further on it? The answer is no. I assume that in the coming year, I hope that in the coming year, the police in the West Bank will implement more and more of the law in the West Bank. But I ask you, why do citizens of our country are threatening to hurt a minister in our government? How low can we go? Crime is crime is crime. A criminal is a criminal is a criminal. And it doesn't matter if he's Jewish or Arab, Israeli or Palestinian, Israeli resident or foreigner. Remember that. The Israeli police is meant to operate only along the rules of the State of Israel. They are those who should guide the Israeli police. The internal security ministry is the special ministry, different than all other ministries. We have three different body branches under our authority, police, fire department, and prison department. But not only on that, because it's different. All these departments show the Israelism in those three branches next to each other, served Jews, Muslims, Christians, Jews and Circassians. All of them are Israelis. All of them work for one goal, for the internal security of the residents of Israel, and are committed to this goal. They're committed to being Israeli. An internal security ministry there's no religion that is above the other. Everybody is equal, everybody is a partner. Two months ago, the police commissioner handed and it praises to the police, police, members of the police forces. Those people who received the praises came from all over the Israeli society, Jews and Christians, Jews and Muslims, people from all over the country. It was interesting to see that 23% of those who received the praises were to police forces who were not from the Jewish sector. That's twice as much as their role in the Israeli police. A week ago at the president's residence, there was a ceremony in honor of the police forces. Part of the police forces were not part of the Jewish sector. It was very high. Muslim police received praises in a number that reflects four times the ratio of the people who serve in the Israeli police. These two groups, those who received the praises, these are the police members who are at the front of the fight against terrorism and criminals. They're the police who are at the front. Many times, they're the people who with their own body protect us against terrorism. And many times, they have to pay with their lives. This year, unfortunately, it happened again when police forces were killed. Same story, the department of fire department and prison department. Israelis from all sectors served together without one being on top of the other. Everybody comes in for the same goal, the internal security of the state of Israel. Dear guests, in the past year and a half, in a very intensive term, we led, we're here at the Ministry of Interior. We led changes that we've not seen for many years. There's no time to speak of how much we've done. But I will say that we led a strong fight against criminals. And in many sectors, we see an improvement. 1,360 numbers of police forces were added. We made the safety project in the mixed cities. We dealt with violence in the family and more and more. In the prison department, after negligence of years, we made technological advances. In the last day of my term at the office, the Supreme Court accepted our petition to complete this process. We progress the fire department to the changing weather patterns that are happening. And the Air Force is now part of the fire, the help for the fire department. Many, many more programs were done. All this activity would not have done without these great people, men and women, in the office, in the internal security office, ministry, in the Israeli police, fire department, and many more branches here at the office. I met you in every meeting that we had, every drill we had. You are well aware of how big your mission is. You dedicate the best of your time. And we're going to actually cut from him for a few moments just to give a little bit of some background information. This is another report that was compiled by Jonathan Rega. That is about Joav Galant, the minister of defense who had plenty of challenges to deal with over the last year. Well, I24 News defense correspondent Jonathan Rega looks at what amates the man who is now at the top of the security establishment. I, Joav Galant, commit as a member of the government to remain loyal to the state of Israel and its laws and to adhere to the decisions of parliament. As opposed to what is happening in other ministries, the ministerial changeover in the ministry of defense is meant to be smooth. Joav Galant did not wait until the official transition and already met with his predecessor, Benny Gantz, and with the chief of staff, Aviv Kochavi. The atmosphere in those meetings was good, but from now on, the atmosphere awaiting Galant will be different. Just like every day for the past nine months, IDF forces carried out arrest operations in the West Bank this weekend. Until now, the minister of defense was in charge of the stick, the arrests, but also of the carrot in the form of easing restrictions on the Palestinian population through the civil administration. Following the latest coalition negotiations, the civil administration is now in the hands of Bezal El Smotrich, meaning that when it comes to the West Bank, the new minister of defense has less authorities than he was hoping. Looking further away, Galant may be the minister in charge of taking care of what seems to be Israel's most pressing challenge. Our first mission is to throw Iran's efforts to develop a nuclear bomb's arsenal which will threaten us and the entire world. The Iranian nuclear program has not gone anywhere. With practically no restrictions, Iran is advancing towards the nuclear bomb, but the challenges the Islamic Republic is posing are far more than just a nuclear field. The real hell this weekend featured suicide drones and amphibious vehicles, the arsenal that could make its way to Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza. To prevent that, Israel will hope to preserve its constant actions in Syria, but this could prove to be challenging due to the tightening relations between Tehran and Moscow. The new minister of defense, along with the new chief of staff who is set to take office in two weeks, have these and other challenges on their hands. The way they will handle these challenges will most probably determine the success or failure of the new Israeli government. And now we have Ben Gvere about to make his speech at the inauguration as new national security minister. So we're going to go back to the live reporting and the live translation of the ceremony so we can catch that. But before that Omar Barlev is still at the podium. So before we hear Ben Gvere talk, we are going to go back to Jonathan for a little bit on that. We just had Omar Barlev talking for about 15 minutes almost and he used the first half of that to really throw some shade at incoming into our Ben Gvere. He was giving first his military credentials knowing that Ben Gvere does not have. He then was talking about the right-wing extremism in Israel knowing that that is a large portion of Ben Gvere supporters. What can we make of this outgoing shade throne? First of all, we just saw the report on the defense ministry where the change is so smooth. Relations between Gantz and Galant are good. Galant already meeting with the current chief of staff, with the next chief of staff. This is how in a perfect world this is how a change of office, a change of guard should take place. And let's remember Galant and Gantz, they're not much different. Yes, one of them comes from the ranks of the Likud. The other comes from the ranks of, I don't even remember what the party was called because they change all the time. The party where of the Gantz and Gidon Tsar came to perform together. But the views are quite close. The defense minister does not have, he's not going to deal with, not going to implement a policy that is much different than the one implemented by Benny Gantz. In this case, the minister of national security, as it is called now, and the differences between him and Barlev are huge. We just heard the comments from Omar Barlev. And yes, as you mentioned, throwing a lot of shade on what has happened for the past year and a half, the way that the current government minister is being Barlev, or others were treated not by Palestinians, not by Israel's enemies, but by Israeli citizens inside Israel. And this is something that will clearly cast a shadow on the relations that we'll see, especially with the new minister of national security. There were not many, many criticisms on the role of the defense minister, Benny Gantz. But there were huge criticisms on the role of Omar Barlev as minister of internal security, especially by the man who's now replacing him, Itamar Ben Gvir. Let's see what he makes of it, what he says of it in the coming minutes. Okay, thank you very much. And as we wait for that response from Itamar Ben Gvir, we will briefly take another look at some other issues in Israeli and global politics. That's the UN General Assembly passing a resolution calling on the International Court of Justice in the Hague to render an opinion on several outstanding issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Does this resolution, one of countless passed against Israel in the General Assembly over the years pose a danger to Israel down the road? Middle East correspondent Alec Pollard with these details. draft resolution one is adopted. 87 UN members voted in favor of a General Assembly resolution calling on the International Court of Justice in the Hague to quote render urgently an advisory opinion on Israel's prolonged occupation settlement and annexation of Palestinian territory calling for an investigation into what the resolution calls quote Israeli measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the holy city of Jerusalem. The decision drew a predictably furious Israeli response. Like the hundred other distorted decisions against Israel made by the UN in recent years, the despicable decision made today will not compel Israel. The Jewish people is not conquering its country, nor in its eternal capital, Jerusalem. And no decision made by the UN will distort this truth. 26 countries voted against, while a significant number of 53 abstained. Netanyahu says a diplomacy push he led helped soften the decision. We've made an important accomplishment. After we stepped in, 11 countries changed their vote. As General Assembly resolutions are non-binding, and we're going to cut that because Ben Gvir has just reached the podium and is about to start giving his response. Now about the guests there, the esteemed guests. The esteemed guests there at the ceremony. The various people attending the ceremony. The speaking of the various people attending the ceremony, police commissioner. The fire department. The verse that we read in the Bible this week, we speak of the meeting between Joseph and his brothers. Joseph, whose brothers envied him, hated him, they sold him. Joseph, who believes that all of his family abandoned him, suddenly realizes that the brothers learned the lesson and they're unwilling to abandon the little brother, Ben Yamin. Ben Yamin is Joseph's younger brother. The Joseph understands that the mistake that was done with him is not done again with his little brother. This is a very remarkable story, showing how much the brothers are willing to sacrifice for Ben Yamin. But the most important sentence in this verse come when showing the relations between the father and Ben Yamin. The father explains to Joseph how important relations are within the family. The souls of the families are connected to each other. That means that families sacrifice for each other. They remain together with each other. It means that they give the souls and the hearts for families. This is our story in the state of Israel. The camaraderie arriving to each person to make sure that all of us together prosper. And if there's a symbol to that sacrifice in the state of Israel, it's this ministry here. All the bodies that are here. Yes, minister. Arabs, Jews, the Druze, Christians, everybody. Only one thing is important, that they love the state of Israel. Police forces and the special units who put themselves in danger for all of us are standing in the forefront of the battle against terrorism, against violence, against crime, and heroic missions. Border policemen and special forces were always there, guarding us in the checkpoints, in the mixed cities, and everywhere that they're needed. The fire department who put themselves in danger to save lives, who put fires down. What I saw, I saw, they train. They do the unbelievable. The prison service people who put away from society, those who are dangerous and need to face complicated challenges and difficult circumstances. The department for protection of people who testify. All of them do so much for the Israeli society. This is the main importance of this ministry. The line that connects all these people is that all of them are together. The dedication, the camaraderie, the love, the sacrifice, daytime, nighttime, hot or cold weather. You're always there for us, for the entire people of Israel. And if we speak of sacrifice for the state of Israel, Omar Barlev, your sacrifice should be noted. It's not a secret that we had many, many differences in the past year. But for one thing, Omar, there's no difference. Your sacrifice and dedication for the state of Israel, the military service. And I thank you for that. Mr. Minister, I heard your speech. I have to tell you, unfortunately, that you're not the only one who's being threatened. You can speak to my wife and to my kids. You'll see that almost every week we receive pictures of bleeding knives, photo montage of theirs, calls to murder me, time after time after time. And yes, minister, it's not only from people who love Israel. It's also from anarchist Jews that it's time to take care of them. You said, and that is a very important figure, about 40 files opened in the West Bank. All of them are important. And everyone who is bothering should be put away. But minister, every day, hundreds of incidents of storm throwing on us, the Jewish community in Hebron, the settlers in Hebron, in the Galilee, in the Negev, throwing stones on Jews only because they're Jews, same in Jerusalem. Jews are afraid to walk by even to the western wall. My friends, this camaraderie of ours makes sure we do not stay in place. We want to progress. We want to reinforce the secure feeling of each and every one of us so that all of us can leave their homes in the morning without being afraid and return home safely. This means fighting crime, fighting terrorism. Yeah, in the Galilee, in the Negev, yes, in Um El Fahem and in Ra'at as well, the people that suffer from violence there mostly are the residents of those places. All of us, all of the Israelis, it doesn't matter from which sector, should benefit from this. Anyone who's loyal to the state of Israel, we're with them, being loyal and care for each other, it means looking at those who were killed by terrorists, looking at the families of those who were killed by terrorists, and telling them that we have to work against the very good conditions of the Palestinian terrorists and jails. All this means that we have to improve, improve our abilities. And I know this has to do with budget, with personnel, and this is something that we'll dedicate a lot to. Yesterday I saw a video from Jerusalem where they, they, terrorist-fired fireworks and try to kill the security forces who were there for us. And I know that the reaction is to be very strong. It has to be very clear to anyone who wants to hurt us, that our security forces are fantastic. I know the people that are here, that the great police commissioner here, anyone who tries to hurt us should be, should have it very clear, that our security forces are very professional and they know how to protect themselves. It means that a security officer who's there to protect his life will have the full backing from me. That backing is not only for you. It's for the kids and the families of all of us. And I want to use this opportunity to tell you fighters, you policemen, tell all of you that any terrorist who wants to hurt you, his blood is in his head. And I am backing you in this war. It's not only for you. It's for our families. And if we speak of families and kids, I want to thank my love, my colleague, my partner who goes along with me in a very difficult road, who raises our kids with constant sacrifice, but as a constant partner of everything that I'm doing. Without you, I wouldn't have made it here. Ayala, my love. I also want to thank my brother Shai for the dedication for the love, my father and mother-in-law, Sion and Esther Nimrodi who raised their kids with values with my kids. They understand that they don't see their father enough. Now they'll seem even less, but they understand that this is for the safety of the state of Israel. I also want to thank two people who are not here, but they're looking from above. My mother, Shoshana, who fought in the Ezel and was an officer in the army. I want to thank her for values for education and my father, Tzedok, who stopped studying Torah at the age of six and went to bring money for his brothers. I know that they watch me and they're excited. They're moved. They're touched. I want to thank my partner's minister, the member of parliament, Almo Cohen, other members of parliament from my faction, and last but clearly not least, God Almighty who gave me all the light, all the good and the ability to do and to change and God willing and with your help, with your help, all the people that are here will succeed. All those who blessed our fathers will bless the soldiers of the Israeli defense forces, the people of the Israeli security establishment, all of you that are here. You will stand to protect our country from the border of Lebanon and everywhere in this country, on the land, in the air, and in the sea. I'm asking God to make sure that your enemies will be gone from you and protect you. I wish you'll be successful in anything you do. I wish that God Almighty will go with you and fight along with you, will protect you, will save you. You know what I noticed there, Jonathan, is that when Barlev spoke, he spoke to Itamar Bengevir and he stressed multiculturalism. When Itamar Bengevir spoke, he spoke to the police around him and he stressed very much the Jewish character of the nation and, to a degree, the police force itself. And I also noticed that Bengevir got much more clapping. Bengevir got much more clapping. Let's remember this is Bengevir's day. I mean he's coming in and many people in the security establishment support Bengevir. Many of the younger generations, maybe many of the soldiers in the IDF, they believe that the Israeli police has not been able to bring security as it should because it did not have enough backing, whether it's in the field of personnel, whether it's in the field of budget. And this is something that Itamar Bengevir, this is a ticket. This is something that he said again and again and again and again. And yes, many people within the security establishment, they adhere to those things. They want to see it happen. Again, now the test begins. Up until now it's only been rhetoric. Now the actions begin. How will all that be done? We'll have to see. Let's remember there's no budget for the State of Israel and there's not going to be a budget for at least three months. I mean the budget, the new government, this is its first day in office. Budget takes time. Even if it's a minister like Bezal Esnot, which minister of finance was known to be a pusher, it will take him time to have a budget. Up until then, I don't see how Itamar Bengevir can play a lot with the numbers. But ultimately one of the things to look at is this a bureaucratic change or is this a culture change? Because it looks like the character of that speech suggests the second one. What does that mean for the police's future? I'm not sure it will mean much because Itamar Bengevir is saying again and again and again, you're loyal to the State of Israel, you're part of us and then it doesn't matter if you're Jewish, if you're Muslim, if you're Christian. One of the biggest heroes in Israel for the past a year was Amir Houri, a Christian policeman who was killed saving ultra-Orthodox people in Nebrak. This is what Itamar Bengevir is saying. Thank you very much, Jonathan Rega, for breaking it down and looking at the new face of Israeli security. That's all the time we have, at least for now, but stay tuned at the top of each hour for breaking news headlines from around the region and from around the world, only here on I-24 News.