You can't lower the prices without the budget for it, so a minister can't just lower prices as they want, but that's not really the point.

The blanket statement that when a government spends money it comes from taxes is obvious and doesn't really add anything, the exact same statement could be said about government subsidising healthcare, or really nearly anything the government does.

What you can do is argue it wasn't worth it to spend the money on subsidies for public transport and it'd better spent elsewhere (even within the ministry), and that's a fair argument considering how lacking the transport is, regardless of its pricing.

I agree she didn't do much, but I think that's more to do with the governments rather than the minister, that coalition wasn't ever making public transport work on Saturday, and significant improvements (infrastructure) cost a ton of money upfront which I dont see any government investing in, sadly.

A technically correct but also completely pointless comment

There are, yes. The most important ones are Egypt and Jordan who've made peace with Israel long ago, despite being at war multiple times before that (though the relationships aren't great, they're ok). In recent times more and more Arab countries which have been hostile in the past have started to both officially acknowledge Israel's existence and some even made peace deals, despite not actually being at war - it's a strong statement and is followed up by economic cooperation. While the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is really going nowhere, those recent agreements certainly shed a bit of an optimistic light on (some) of the Middle East.

Though it's worth noting, that a big part of the reason these recent agreements are happening is common enemies, namely Iran, being a bat-shit state