Your comments on my suggestions are well taken, but ignore the potential of visionary leadership to convince the public (of the need for both my proposals). I was privileged to have met with David Ben Gurion twice before he died. I was very young at the time and asked him the rather naive question “what is the most important job of a Prime Minister” and was shocked when he shot back immediately “educator in chief”. He explained that in a democracy a leader must educate the public as to what the central problems are, what must be done to solve them and how this can be done.

This of course takes courage, something that the present hormonally challanged public opinion poll reading leadership of the “free world” does not have. But democracies periodically have these windows of opportunity called elections — and one can always hope.

Sincerely,

Tsvi Bisk