From crocodile moats to attacks on Eisenkot: The horror show of the Likud primaries

The project to surround the Ktzi'ot prison with water moats containing crocodiles is so delusional that it is no surprise Silman joined it. Who is convinced he is the only person in the country who knows everything about everything? When Ben Gvir warns against a political police — irony dies of shame.

MaarivAuthor: Ron Koffman
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From crocodile moats to attacks on Eisenkot: The horror show of the Likud primaries
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On August 3, 2025, a group of liquidators, sent by the Nature and Parks Authority, raided the crocodile farm in Petza'el. According to the Authority's report, the group shot 262 crocodiles to death. The farm's owner claims in a lawsuit filed in court that about 800 crocodiles were killed that day. The farm was fenced with pools for the reptiles' well-being and prevented any possibility of preying on humans.

The minister in charge of the Nature and Parks Authority was then, and still is today, Idit Silman. Now she is running in the Likud primaries, after being 'reserved' in the previous 2022 elections, thanks to the move that brought down the 'change government' together with Amichai Chikli and Nir Orbach. Silman was the coalition chair then, but betraying the party and the voters is always a profitable and rewarding business, albeit one that triggers a gag reflex.

Now she is joining a delusional project, by 'Popeye' Itamar Ben Gvir, to fortify the prison in Ktzi'ot using water moats containing crocodiles, which will eat their fill of any terrorist who tries to escape from the prison.

There are no such patents even in Guantanamo or in Wroclaw, which serve as prisons for security prisoners in the USA. In both of these sites, career soldiers are the security guards, not the Federal Marshal unit that oversees prisoners in federal prisons within the USA. This is just an example.

Every year, about 300 cases are reported where crocodiles ate their fill of humans, mainly in Africa. The Nile crocodile is a giant reptile up to five meters long and weighing about 750 kilograms. It is reasonable to assume that 'Popeye' Ben Gvir and Idit Silman will be satisfied with three cases of terrorists being preyed upon per year.

No one guarantees that in the winter, for example on a cold and rainy night, crocodiles will prey on terrorists. Because when it is cold outside, the crocodile burrows into the sand to maintain its body heat. I really hope that if such an escape succeeds, they won't execute some crocodiles because they were negligent.

Silman's political future is unclear. Joining Ben Gvir's Otzma Yehudit is a reasonable possibility. She will provide him with adult crocodiles at a price of $20,000 per specimen, and he will give her a seat in the 'Drek Lake' (Knesset). For Shmulik Silman, Idit's husband, this is an easy deal to execute. And for Idit, well, come on. Someone who has betrayed once can betray all their life, even without smiling.

The circus of the Likud primaries is giving the party's 'Drek Lake' residents a terrible tantrum that completely disrupts them. Parallel to the 'Drek Lake', the 'machers' (fixers) are also under terrible pressure. The connection to the 'government nipple' is no longer as certain as it has been for the last four years.

Who will take care of 'Trash 14' (Channel 14), if a type like Shlomo Karhi is not in the Ministry of Communications, and his patron, the father of the nation pretending to be Churchill, is not in the PM's office? There is no commercial channel in Israel that has received so many government benefits in 78 years as 'Trash 14'.

We have managed to forget, but the 'trash' started when it was a heritage channel. Keshet 12 and Reshet 13 had to go through tenders that cost millions. Just for the channel numbers they paid hundreds of millions. Keshet about 180 million shekels and Reshet about 120 million shekels.

'Trash 14' did not pay a single Syrian lira, it enjoyed government embraces as if it were a department in the PM's office. The truth is that the embrace was earned. It is a propaganda organization that works for the one pretending to be Churchill, no less than Yonatan Urich, perhaps even more. And to the credit of the 'trash bin', it did not moonlight with Qatar.

But now it's hard. Yinon Magal is under terrible pressure, the nonsense he spews has reached a level of wretchedness. The battle he is waging against Gadi Eisenkot, who threatens to evict the father of the nation from the office, is pathetic at its worst. 'All the time they bring Eisenkot's mother with the head covering,' claims the 'macher'. 'With all due respect, the test is not who your parents are, but who your children are.' Pshhh...

Eisenkot's child, Gal (RIP), and two of his nephews fell in the 'absolute victory' in Gaza. On the other hand, the 'child' of all of us has been vacationing in Miami for several years and is secured as if he were the diamond of all of us. From exile, he advises his father, the one pretending to be Churchill, and poisons the air through the networks and political appointments he forces on his father.

In the reserves, he does not serve in the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, because apparently it is hard for him. He will not be forced to die or be wounded in defense of his homeland, he is a 'prince' child, and mom is terribly worried about him. Yinon is also worried about him.


Erel Segal is convinced that he is the only person in the country who knows everything about everything. This week he claimed on 103FM radio that there is no one who knows the Muslim Brotherhood like him. Moreover, he also understands the mental foundation of the Muslim Brotherhood. Any moment now, a charlatan much bigger than the 'psycho' from 'Married at First Sight' will develop here. Where do you understand the mental foundations of one enemy or another, man? What is this impersonation?

He also whines about the great land theft of the kibbutzim. They stole his land, maybe like the Muslim Brotherhood, the kibbutzniks who established a state here — and the list of fallen from the Kibbutz Movement approaches a thousand casualties. But who cares. The most important thing is that the Haredim have the 'Apartment for the Draft Dodger and Parasite' project. It's not theft, it's a gift from God, it's different because that's what was determined at Mount Sinai.

Segal also babbles about the worthlessness of the secular in the IDF, so he says. The secular do not have a 'Hesder Yeshiva' track, where they wear uniforms only for 17 months, except for officers. They also don't have rabbis who are interested in ensuring a sterile environment from women, because the presence of a woman defiles them, nebbach.

In the Hesder Yeshivas, about 12,000 'beinishim' study (three and a half years of study, 17 months of army), and in each recruitment cycle between 2,400 and 2,800 are recruited — the absolute majority for combat roles that the rabbi recommends, and mainly for infantry and armored brigades. In the artillery, there are women, so it's not healthy for them.

By the way, some of the secular also go out for a year of service for the last six decades. They don't have a shortened track. Once they served 36 months, and recently the service was shortened to 32 months.

According to a study by the Jewish People Policy Institute, the secular constitute more than 60% of the soldiers in regular service, in all IDF units and out of 146,000 soldiers in regular service, as of 2023. Women soldiers are 20% and more of the IDF's combat force. This is a rate that Mr. Segal does not claim to know, perhaps because he did not bother to know. It interferes with the agenda.

He also claims that the 'knitted kippot' hold most of the power in the Combat Engineering Corps. This is a false figure, and for understandable reasons I cannot publish the real figure. So Segal said, he says many things without checking.

I also did not enter the maneuvering brigades that include infantry, armor, engineering, and more, regarding which Mr. Segal claims passionately that only the 'knitted kippot' hold these forces in a vast majority, perhaps because in his opinion the secular are terribly afraid to fight. Mr. Segal and his colleague E. Segal claim passionately that the superiority of the 'knitted kippot' in combat is also expressed in the lists of those fallen in battle.

The number of fallen in Israel, from 1860 until the eve of Memorial Day in April 2026, including the IDF, Shin Bet, police, and disabled veterans who died as a result of their disability, was 25,644 casualties. Unfortunately, since then, casualties have been added to the count. The figure does not include victims of hostilities.

I am not interested in entering into the breakdown of casualties in wars, operations, and actions, like the 'machers' of the father of the nation pretending to be Churchill, but even in this tragic figure there are huge differences between secular and 'knitted kippot', even if the Messrs. Segal are convinced that all the secular serve in 8200 or in the IDF Spokesperson's Unit. But if you can insert filth into an event, to poison the air with faith-based superiority, why give it up? After all, it serves their base.

Just one more tiny figure. The national-religious public in Israel numbers about 750,000–800,000 people, who constitute about 11% of the public in Israel. The secular constitute 46% of the public. Only the secular have mandatory service for women as well. In the national-religious public, about 80% of the girls volunteer for national service, about five times more than the secular women who are recruited. So these are enough figures to slow down the 'poison machine' ahead of the elections, but it won't slow down — it will accelerate.


The pressure in the Likud and the 'psycho' right also causes comic expressions, and I don't want to insult the merchandise and harm its creativity. Kati Shitrit, a resident of the 'Drek Lake', explains on Kan Reshet Bet what democracy is in her party: 'With us in the Likud there is democracy. It is impossible to decide and act contrary to the Prime Minister's decision.' I am convinced she is right, it's just a pity that the father of the nation and the one pretending to be Churchill is not exactly in love with the merchandise that the Likud center members created for him in the primaries four years ago. There is a clear and tangible danger that Kati from Sderot will not be in the 26th edition of the 'Drek Lake'.

Gila Gamliel, another senior resident of the 'Drek Lake', called on the father of the nation, in an interview on 'Trash 14', to reserve one of the 'Force 100' fighters on the list. I am convinced that the one pretending to be Churchill is thrilled by the initiative. There are indeed many heroic fighters and commanders who are Likud voters, but our Gila wants a prison guard in a realistic place? Isn't this creativity a bit Pavlovian?

How is a campaign possible without Miri 'the gifted' Regev? She is the Taylor Swift of the party. 'Do you know what the wet dream of Mojtaba and Erdogan is? That Eisenkot, Yair Golan, and Mansour Abbas will manage the next government. And therefore they will do everything to manage the consciousness, so that the right and Netanyahu will not be in power. And our role in these elections is to do everything so that Netanyahu will be. Why do they want Gadi? Because they know that the left is weak, the left 'contains'. The left does not really want to reach the places we need to reach with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran after October 7. We need a strong Likud and a big right. He is the only one who can lead us.'

It scares me a bit that 'the gifted' is a member of the security 'what-the-hell'. After all, she and her friends have yet to take responsibility for the October 7 massacre. It's Gadi, the left, and Kaplan who led to the war. Not the one pretending to be Churchill with a 'deterred' Hamas. Three years that 'the gifted' and her colleagues don't even hint that they are responsible for the greatest disaster in the country. But there is an opportunity to settle the score with them, in two months and a bit.

And now let's dedicate some time to 'Popeye' Ben Gvir, the liar for national security. He doesn't like the initiative of Yoaz Hendel and Chili Tropper to throw him out of the Ministry of National Security. 'I hear that the friends in the Bennett-Abbas government, Yoaz Hendel and Chili Tropper who were partners in the enforcement scandal in the Negev, the cancellation of plantings, the stopping of scholarships for IDF fighters, and the transfer of 50 billion to the Islamic Movement, want the Ministry of National Security back. They don't just want the ministry, they want to erase the reforms we passed, return the 'summer camp' to the terrorists, stop the demolitions of illegal construction in the Negev, cancel the important appointments of district commanders in the police and the Prison Service, and return the police to being a political tool in the hands of the left. It won't help them — Otzma Yehudit will continue to hold the ministry, even in the next government.'

How beautifully he lies, with the big kippa on his head, I am thrilled. So let's go to the reforms: about 800 victims in the Arab society. In the Jewish society, violent crime is raging, every day a fragmentation grenade in a different place in the country, from north to south.

By the way, in plantings he is a cannon, let him be the minister for Tu BiShvat. 50 billion to the Islamic Movement? Show us the transfers, Mr. 'Popeye'. Even the greatest liar in the history of the State of Israel, the one pretending to be Churchill, admitted dryly that it is 2 billion. By the way, May Golan recently deducted a sum of over 500 million from the allocations to the Arab society. Arab society also includes the Druze, and the recruitment rate of this society is higher than 86%. But don't tell anyone.

You talk about a political police? You destroyed and corrupted the organization, turned it into an incompetent militia. You appointed a miserable commissioner without experience and ability, and look at how Superintendent Yoav Eliasi ('HaTzel') looks, which is your appointment. How the Prison Service Commissioner who will be prosecuted looks. How the Judea and Samaria District investigative unit looks, how the police general staff looks, which operates like a branch of Mapai in Haifa in the days of Abba Hushi.

So you, a convicted criminal too many times, a member of a Jewish terrorist organization, an enthusiastic supporter of the 'hilltop youth', which is another Jewish terrorist organization, are you even an example for someone and something? How do you even serve as acting commissioner, after you were disqualified from serving in the IDF? But you appointed yourself 'God of the Hosts of the Lord'. The damage you caused to the police and the Prison Service will be fixed (maybe) in ten years.

The 'Bodkim' organization checked the 'macher' Yaakov Bardugo, following another lying tweet: 'Eisenkot knew that the hostages were undergoing sexual abuse. And he was in some place willing, in order not to 'educate' Hamas, that they would remain there.'

The facts in the 'Bodkim' response to the lie: 'Bardugo refers to Eisenkot's interview with Roni Kuban. There he told that at the end of the first hostage deal, in an attempt to prevent its collapse, after Hamas did not agree to release the remaining women, he suggested tricking Hamas. To return whoever is possible, wounded and elderly, and return to the women later, instead of blowing up the deal. His position was not accepted, and in this deal, no more hostages were returned, neither women nor men. Eisenkot also mentioned Hirsch Goldberg in that same interview, as an example of someone who could have been saved.'

Yes, this is Bardugo. If he can lie for his benefactor, the father of the nation, he does not hesitate for a moment. It's a pity that Eisenkot doesn't learn from Naftali Bennett and take the 'machers' to court, to prove the truth to the public.

The father of the nation pretending to be Churchill is not satisfied with the ruling of the Likud movement's Supreme Court. After he demanded and received eight 'reservations', only about 16 realistic places remained for the candidates in the primaries, and there is great anger, because everyone must run in the national list.

So as someone who hates courts, he demanded to appeal to the district court. It is not at all certain that the appeal request will be accepted. Maybe the father of the nation will decide to arrange the list through an 'arranging committee', which is a game rigged even before it opens, and also a reminder of the days of Mapai. Still, the Likud was founded by Arik Sharon, a graduate of 'Achdut HaAvoda', which is the militant sister of that Mapai, which brought upon us the disaster of the Yom Kippur War. So maybe an event of poetic justice will happen here.

Another government will be elected, all the 'deep state' that is right-wing and rotten, according to the right-wingers, will go, we will replace rot with new rot. Even the judges and the Attorney General were appointed by the right-wing parties. Even Gideon Sa'ar the Likudnik from the 'bribe' games, returned with repentance and home.

I will be very happy if this happens, because I love it when they pack up and go to hell. For example, watching Amir Ohana, Simcha Rothman, Hanoch Milwidsky, Shlomo Karhi, Dudi Amsalem, and others being thrown out of committee halls, in every meeting, will make me very happy. Because 'a day of vengeance and retribution' is an important event in Judaism.

Only that the 'Drek Lake' under another government should not forget the abomination that was here for four years, with families of the fallen, families of the hostages, legal advisors of committees, of the 'Drek Lake' in general. The disgraceful attitude of the 'world of Torah' towards women who are residents of the 'Drek Lake', or women who are state employees, requires revenge.

And if it is possible that the revenge will be from the first day of the swearing-in of the 'Drek Lake', and every day after it. People are waiting for this, don't disappoint. Don't disappoint for once. Let the viewers of the Knesset channel enjoy. Not to hear what they talk about in the committees, you are really not interesting, just to hear the word: 'Outttt'. Wow, that will be a dream come true.


Good. Six couples went to Spain to decide if they continue in 'Married at First Sight', or separate in 'Divorced at First Sight'. One couple was already a hero, and recovered from the trauma. The rest are debating.

Noa and Ari don't have to notify the charlatans of the 'psycho', we've already seen everything. Even if they run from Spain to a Haredi wedding in Ketryalibke, it won't work. Noa is 'impossible', every second of hers 'in the process' was unnecessary. Ari is a pity that he didn't listen to me, when I screamed at him through the screen: 'Run!!! Run for your life. What are you, an actor in a low-grade Turkish drama?', he looks miserable.

Niv and the cook are a huge question mark. She worries me with the costume she put on herself since he hinted at 'run away'. I waited for him to announce to her that he is going down to buy cigarettes, on the way to flee for his life. But he surrendered. What is he a black belt in judo for, if he grovels before the battle?

Noy already knows that nothing good is waiting for her, if her husband on the screen is not attracted to her and also has no feelings. Pity, she would have made him a home, she cooks beautifully. Although with a lot of oil, but I like it.

Sofi and Dor are the winning couple. She looks like fire, she 'contains', she cooks and now she is also a mother to her and Dor's son. Now she needs to take care of two children, the baby and his father, who is a 'full-on' shell-shocked person. And life in Gush Dan will load him with triggers 'to the max'.

Neta is 'sababa'. But two shell-shocked people in one house is a recipe for disaster. She is also, uh, a bit-a-lot bossy. It's good for him to be deaf, you don't stop talking, damn it, so he postpones the surgery. Good God, practice some Vipassana. 300 words a day is A LOT in a relationship, it's an ocean of words. Be like Yehuda Poliker, when he feels bad he writes. Just be quiet, my soul.

And to all the couples, don't be influenced by the 'psycho'. They are slaves, like you, of the production. They need the success of the program, you are fighting for your life. You haven't received one good piece of advice from them yet, so they are also unnecessary in decisions, this is your life, not theirs. Good luck to the 'bad-luckers'.

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