Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office published a document on April 5 detailing the achievements of various government ministries compared with the goals they set for themselves for 2016. For five years, the Israeli government has published these goals as part of its annual plans. This year, at the direction of the prime minister, data on progress toward them was also published for the first time.

Two failures made headlines. The first was the public’s low participation in “buyer’s price,” the flagship low-cost housing program of Kulanu chairman and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon that reached only 42% of the goal set by the Housing Ministry. Only 6,343 qualified people bought reduced-price homes through the program, compared to a planned 15,000. While Yoav Galant heads the Housing Ministry, the program itself is unequivocally associated with the finance minister, for better or for worse.

The second news item concerns the Ministry of Transportation, headed by Yisrael Katz. It seems that the number of fatalities in traffic accidents was 12.2% higher than the goal the ministry set for itself (377 instead of 336 lives lost).

The prime minister’s report includes many successes for these two ministries, as well. The Finance Ministry, for instance, had a surplus of 1 billion shekels ($273 million) in revenue compared to its goal and a budget deficit lower than the goal, but all the same, it was the negative news that caught the public’s eye. Senior Kulanu and Transportation Ministry officials felt that it was not coincidental that the prime minister’s office distributed the report. Katz and Kahlon are two popular and admired ministers among the general public for their professional achievements, and it’s a poorly kept secret that the prime minister is uneager to praise popular ministers in his government. Rather, he has been caught time and again taking the credit for their achievements.