Regev has become the face of everything unbearable in the treatment of citizens

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took into account that their long-awaited vacation abroad might be disrupted, and perhaps most of them would have even accepted it with understanding (even if with sadness): a war with Iran is perceived almost as a force majeure, and its consequences, such as the closing of the skies, are an integral part of the ritual, which subsequently becomes nostalgia. Besides, if the Strait of Hormuz is closed, what will the inhabitants of Ben Gurion Airport complain about then?

A wildcat strike at the airport, on the other hand, looks like a particularly cruel humor in the comedy that is a bad Ministry of Transport and a 'flying' minister, who was only waiting to see that she was the "first lady" in the Likud and ran to ensure she was more or less the first on the flight to Marrakech. After all, why should Miri Regev and the ministry's management be concerned about warnings regarding the severe state of staffing at Ben Gurion Airport at the peak of the travel season?

The elections are approaching, the primaries are over, and now it is "garbage time" that will deal only with coalition calculations and not with performance levels, and in any case, Regev intends to return to this ministry about as much as she wants to stay in the country for more than two months in a row. Between Ben Gurion Airport closing due to missiles and Ben Gurion Airport being locked down due to fools, it is no wonder that so many Israelis prefer a one-way ticket.

Of course, if this were an exceptional trip in Regev's schedule, then at least one could treat her absence a little less dramatically. But Regev has made herself the face of everything unbearable in the current government's attitude toward citizens, at least those whose political revenge does not need to be worried about, partly through a dizzying sequence of trips abroad, the connection of which to "work" ranges from "coincidental" to "non-existent."

And now, even if the strike is halted before the chaos turns into a catastrophe, the very fact of reaching a situation where Ben Gurion Airport is locked down at the end of August is another small souvenir of a big fiasco. It is no wonder that even the Prime Minister, suddenly, was required to address life itself and announced that "Ben Gurion Airport will remain open" and "whoever stands in the way will be thrown out": ahead of the elections, he needs chaos on the Syria-Turkey border, not at the check-in counters and luggage conveyors.

And anyway, what do they want from him? After all, who thought that Ben Gurion Airport would host almost one hundred thousand people every day? Trump was supposed to fix that too. Ben Gurion Airport is not only the only gateway to the State of Israel, but also a reflection of it: the gap between potential and performance, the distance between investment and return, and the abyss between the need for a clean and pleasant experience and an existence of stress and uncertainty, given that the business was entrusted and, in fact, abandoned in embarrassing hands.