3 years after October 7 - and again Israelis had to save themselves | Ben Caspit

Three years after October 7, a passenger plane almost crashed on Tel Aviv. Ben Caspit analyzes the Flydubai fiasco, where Israeli citizens took control of the situation, and claims that responsibility is scattered between the Shin Bet, the Ministry of Transportation, and the Mossad, and all are evading responsibility. Caspit attacks Miri Regev and Prime Minister Netanyahu, and accuses the coalition of political appointments and destroying the public service.

Exactly three years after the October 7 disaster, a Flydubai passenger plane almost crashed on Tel Aviv. The disaster was averted thanks to an Indian pilot and Israeli citizens who took control of the situation. Ben Caspit claims that the disaster should have been prevented by the bodies responsible for flight safety: the Mossad, the Shin Bet, and the Ministry of Transportation, but all are busy evading responsibility. Caspit sharply attacks Transportation Minister Miri Regev, whom he describes as someone who only sees jobs and appointments, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who he says allows all this to happen. He notes that the coalition is thinning out the public service and appointing inexperienced cronies, drawing comparisons to past disasters: the Carmel fire, Mount Meron, and October 7. The column uses the metaphor of the "reasonableness standard" as a struggle to preserve the power of the court as a balancing factor against government arbitrariness.