Yesterday we were all sure then within 3-4 months there will be an elections in Israel. The head of the labour party, Ehud Barak (who isn’t a MP by the way), announced that he and most of his party members will object the vote of confidence in the current government. The vote will be today, Wednesday, in the Knesset (Israeli parliament).

The Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said that anyone who will do so, will be fired. In that case, there will no coalition and the government couldn’t longer exist.
Early in the morning they managed to work something out so that they all could keep their jobs. The leading party in the government, KADIMA, will hold primaries and in exchange the Labour ministers will not object in today’s vote.

Aren’t we all happy?

I guess no. The reason from the first place that Barak and his friends wanted to vote against was the last corruption story involving Prime Minister Olmert. Without too many details I’ll just mention that according to the press, he got money (in envelopes) from an American Jewish guy, Morris Talanski. In exchange he gave nothing basically. We don’t know all the facts but it seems that Olmert didn’t tell anyone about this money and perhaps even took it to his private possession.

Politics is amazing. Ronald Reagan once told that the best people aren’t in the government since if they were, the private sector would take them. I guess that this is what we have here. The second best people are doing the job (if not the third or the forth).