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. @GershomG'slast line here reminds me of my Israeli political baptism when I was all of 18. I was on a kibbutz ulpan and selected to attend a kibbutz movement seminar in Jerusalem. The guy designated to explain politics to us was the @Jerusalem_Post's Yosef Goell... https://twitter.com/GershomG/status/1336716383942569987
..who was furious that day because the Haredi party (then there was only one, Aguda) had extracted a concession from the Begin govt: army-age women seeking a religious exemption no longer had to undergo a religious knowledge test to get out of enlistment...
Aguda's reasoning was that many of their young women were too unschooled to pass the test (!!!). Goell, an imposing founders-type guy with a big white beard thundered that this would be the end of women in the IDF. I stupidly raised my hand and said...
...wouldn't the IDF check up on the liars? He laughed derisively (a thing, I found, among Israeli political types) and said "Ezer is not going to send soldiers with cameras to the beaches on Shabbat." (1978, Ezer Weizman was defense minister.) I learned to shut up...
..this was around November. Six months later, summer time, there was a news item: Ezer Weizman ordered soldiers with cameras to the beaches to photograph women who falsely claimed to be religious. Lesson: Never predict anything about Israeli politics. Not even what WON'T happen.
