Violence has become routine, fear is constant and the state's response feels absent at best and malicious at worst, leaving ordinary people to navigate a reality where survival is uncertain
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's police force acts only on issues important to the government while neglecting others. The issues that matter to the police these days include aggressive enforcement against anti-government protests, wrongful arrests and humiliation of protesters, an iron fist against demonstrations in the Arab community and a lack of enforcement against ultra-Orthodox draft-dodgers and deserters.