Baruch Al-Makiys and Mary Ezrachi in your organization

You remind me of forgotten (and painful) things. The head of the council at the time, Baruch Al-Makis, was elected (he had already been head of the council in the past) and began to go on a rampage, acting against the law with arbitrariness and violence and threats, and everyone kept quiet (the sheep). Anonymous letters were sent through other places so that the sender would not be identified. The settlement was deteriorating into utter ruin. I saw that this was the situation and decided to put the gun on the table to throw him out of there. A long struggle began that lasted over a year, with Al-Makis gaining close cooperation with the Haredim in the settlement (how could it not?), who of course were the community of which I was a member. He also received strong backing from the government (the Alignment, Ofir Pines, Minister of the Interior, Peres, Dalia Itzik, and others) who refused to touch him despite clear and unequivocal evidence that we brought (and also submitted to the police) for criminal charges. He was important to them because he was the only man from the development towns who supported the collection of these Ashkenazim. The media, the government and the police all completely ignored unequivocal and ongoing criminal and violent crime with solid evidence. At the end of the process, we managed to get a TV reporter to come and do an article about the situation. The article was going to be published on the TV news. There was strong pressure from the government not to publish it (so the reporter told us). After a few days of pressure, they decided to publish it anyway, and in the same edition, Interior Minister Ofir Pines announced that he had fired Almakiis. This was after, of course, giving him full and close support the whole time, he fired him live without even informing him. What don't you do to look good on TV. The whole story, local and national, was amazing and I learned a lot from it, but this is not the place. I could write a long book about it. I probably won't do that either.