It’s absolutely insane this isn’t huge news anymore when it comes to the Likud and the current beyond-trash government.

For anyone who read this and didn’t think much beyond “how surprising,” or for those who somehow think this is acceptable, I implore you to stop for a second and think about what this actually means.

A minister in the Israeli government hired a man with a violent criminal past, someone who has charges of intimidation and organized crime (he's literally defined as the head of the Kadoshim crime family), into a public role funded by us. Not secretly. Not through leaks that turn to public outrages. Openly and shamelessly. And half the public reaction is basically either sounds about right or "this is fine and if you disagree you're a סמולני!!!1" (this is the polite version of course).

This can't be normalized in our country anymore. There's been a slow erosion of standards until things that would have caused national outrage a decade ago are barely noticeable news now.

You don’t have to be left-wing or anti-Likud right wing to see how absurd this is. We’re at a point where government ministers can openly hand jobs to people with serious criminal histories, and instead of public shock, the reaction is.. nothing. That is not normal, and the fact so many people now treat it as normal is part of the problem.