Shira Wiesel: The bus returns to the recruitment office
Shira Wiesel describes a chaotic recruitment morning where she discovered the location had been changed without notice, linking it to severe systemic failures revealed by the State Comptroller: complete disorder in the evacuation of Sha'ar HaNegev, ten thousand students lost to the education system, and payment of over five billion shekels for hotels without oversight. She calls for choosing leaders who will fix things.
Shira Wiesel, a singer-songwriter and peace activist, describes a chaotic recruitment morning where she accompanied her partner to the recruitment office, only to discover that the recruitment had been moved to Ariel Sharon Park without prior notice. She describes a crowd of people waiting, a lack of an orderly queue, and parents accepting the chaos calmly. From here, she connects to broader systemic failures: the State Comptroller's report from February 2025 described the evacuation of the four communities of Sha'ar HaNegev as "complete disorder," with 246,000 evacuees at the beginning of November 2023, ten thousand students not located in the Ministry of Education's systems, and payment of over five billion shekels for hotels until July 2024 without oversight. In September 2025, the Comptroller determined that for 17 years, no infrastructure had been established for managing the home front in emergencies. Wiesel calls for choosing leaders who will read Comptroller reports and fix things, and who will restore basic values of the public good.