Itamar Eichner – YNet News
The escalating water crisis plaguing Israel has its ministers racking their brains in an attempt to come up with ways to deal with the predicament.
Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee) is Israel’s main freshwater reservoir; and a recent succession of dry winters has left it nearly depleted.
The Knesset has heard suggestions the likes of partially shutting off the water supply to prisons or organizing mass prayer rallies, but Agriculture Minister Shalom Simhon has come up with an original idea: Changing all the mezuzot in the Israel Water Authority offices.
Jewish tradition calls for a mezuzah, a piece of parchment inscribed with specified Hebrew verses from the Torah and places in a special case, to be affixed to every doorframe.
Simhon’s peers found the suggestion somewhat puzzling, prompting the agriculture minister to explain the logic behind his proposal: “I would like to remind everyone that Labor was at an all-time low in the polls, but after I had the mezuzot at the Labor House changed we doubled our strength.”
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert suggested, fondly, that the next government consider keeping Simhon in the Agriculture Ministry so he may continue handling the water crisis.
The government has held three sessions on the water crisis in the past few weeks, at National Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer’s request.
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