Kara creates "whistleblower hotline" for civil servants against the "deep state"

Communications Minister Shlomo Kara launched a "governance hotline" allowing civil servants to anonymously report failures in the public system, as part of his fight against what he calls the "deep state." The initiative comes amid the Likud primaries.

Communications Minister Shlomo Kara launched a "governance hotline" – a website that allows civil servants to anonymously report failures in the public system. According to the explanation on the site, the hotline is intended "to ensure that the government policy elected by the public is indeed implemented in practice" and to expose "non-substantive barriers" and "deliberate failures in implementation processes." Kara presents the initiative as part of the fight against what he calls the "deep state," and claims it is meant to help identify elements in the public system that he says are working to delay or thwart the implementation of government policy. The move comes in the midst of the Likud primaries period, against the backdrop of the internal elections to be held on August 17.