1. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting:„Apparently, this will be this Cabinet’s last meeting. I would like to thank
the ministers for their excellent work over the past four years. These were
four years of continuous action, of setting goals and achieving them. I
think that with the perspective of time, this Government will be remembered
as one of the governments that achieved more than almost any other in the
history of the State of Israel. The achievements are many, they are
all-embracing. We will take a moment and discuss them during this meeting,
but I think that we have led the State of Israel to a situation in which it
is more secure, more prosperous, and has made more progress in all the areas
in which we have been active. I think that this is our foremost goal; to
lead the country to a better situation that the one in which we received it,
and there is no doubt that this was done.
We did all of this while the world around us was changing for the worse. The
regional situation is changing for the worse. The global economy is wobbly
and unstable, and the State of Israel, in this sense, is in a better
situation. We still face very great challenges; of course, in lowering the
cost of living and housing, in equality in sharing the burden, and above
all, the major security challenges, there are no other words, the major
security challenges that are piling up around us. We will, of course, need
to deal with these in the next government.
I expect that the ministers in the next government will take your actions as
an example, ministers and deputy ministers. Your work will serve as an
example for the next government and if we act with the same focus, the same
cooperation, we will, in the next government, I am sure, be able to overcome
the challenges that we face.”
The ministers described the achievements of their ministries.
Prime Minister Netanyahu thanked Cabinet Secretary Tzvi Hauser and his
staff, Prime Minister’s Office Director General Harel Locker and all PMO
personnel for their work during the Government’s term in office.
2. In the context of International Women’s Day, Deputy Minister Gila Gamliel
and Minister Limor Livnat, who chairs the ministerial committee on advancing
the status of women, briefed the Cabinet on the advancement of women in
various spheres. Click
here<www.pmo.gov.il/
0313.aspx> for further details, including a (Hebrew) PowerPoint display.
3. Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch and Public Security
Ministry Director General Rotem Peleg briefed the Cabinet on the ministry’s
activities in 2009-2013. Click
here<www.pmo.gov.il/
0313.aspx> for further details.
4. Interior Ministry Population and Migration Administration Director Amnon
Ben-Ami briefed the Cabinet on his agency’s activities in 2009-2013.
Interior Ministry Local Authorities Administration Director Mordechai Cohen
briefed the Cabinet on his agency’s activities in 2009-2013. Click
here<www.pmo.gov.il/
0313.aspx> for further details, including a (Hebrew) PowerPoint display.
5. The Cabinet discussed payments to those civil service retirees who are
barred from certain types of work for a period of up to one year after
retiring. Click
here<www.pmo.gov.il/
0313.aspx> for further details.
