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Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press
Today’s issues: Women’s rights in the Rabbinical Courts, neglecting workers’ safety, their cup of tea or ours, where is the Arab tsunami headed, and approaching the precipice.
The Jerusalem Post welcomes the historic High Court of Justice ruling that a woman could be chosen for a high administrative post in the Rabbinical Courts, but notes: “The declared disparagement by the ultra-Orthodox members of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s coalition for Reform Jews whether in Israel or the Diaspora is the tail that wags the dog that tries to govern the State of Israel. Until enough of our citizenry overcomes its social inertia and this attitude changes, nothing can be done politically to rein in the disproportionate power that Netanyahu gave the haredi parties in his coalition.”
Haaretz comments on the unprecedented death rate of construction workers due to on-the-job accidents, and asserts: “The lethal combination of neglect by construction site employers for their workers’ safety and neglect by the government for oversight of workers’ safety has exacted a heavy price.” The editor argues that “responsibility for construction site deaths rests with the government,” and opines that the outcome proves that Minister of Welfare and Social Services Haim Katz, the minister responsible, has failed in his duty to protect the workers, “And the government continues to abandon construction workers.”
Yediot Aharonot addresses the issue of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s allegation concerning the media’s ‘persecution’ of his wife Sara that formed part of his speech in last week’s support rally organized by his emissaries, and declares: “Despite Prime Minister Netanyahu’s insistence that he and his family are being persecuted by the ‘left-wing media’ over an errant cup of tea or his wife Sara’s caring for her dying father, it is really about the Netanyahus’ utter lack of shame, whose consequences will apparently be decided by the court.”
Israel Hayom ponders the ‘modernization’ of the Middle East in the wake of the disintegration of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Sudan, the toppling of several Arab regimes and the Arab Spring, and declares: “Acquaintance with Middle East ‘modernization’ is a prerequisite for a realistic national security policy, devoid of wishful thinking and hopes driven by oversimplification.”
Globes cautions investors of the beating of war drums accompanied by the breakdown in civility in the West, and reminds readers that “World War I began due to multiple errors of judgment on the part of several of the great powers at the time, not because any of them simply made a policy decision to start a war.” The author notes that “To err is human and happens all the time,” and warns: “The world is currently approaching a precipice. Investors take note.”
[Shimon Shiffer, Yoram Ettinger and Norman Bailey wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot, Israel Hayom and Globes, respectively |
