Yediot Aharonot refers to the website that listed many active and reserve IDF personnel who participated in Operation Cast Lead, including their photos and personal details, and libeled them as war criminals. The author proudly notes that he served in Gaza during the operation and wonders why he is not on the list: „In short, I was there, and according to the warped standard of those who wrote the lists, this is enough to turn me too into a war criminal.” The author gives his IDF serial number, requests that he be added to the list and notes that, „If you download my picture from Facebook, you will see, at least, that it is a good photo.”
Ma’ariv says that „The prevailing opinion vis-ŕ-vis the American administration, in Netanyahu’s Bureau, is that it is unreliable,” and speculates that „This is the reason for Netanyahu’s insistence on receiving the guarantees in writing.” The author believes that relations between the White House and the Prime Minister’s Bureau are, „at an unprecedented nadir.”
Yisrael Hayom suggests that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that the US put its guarantees, under the proposed deal, in writing „not because Israel has lost trust in the administration, but because he needs public proof, to use in the argument with the ‘rebels’ in the Likud and the coalition, that he has made a good bargain.”
The Jerusalem Post commends maverick Shas MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem, who has been struggling to retain the right to think independently against the wishes of his party leaders, and states that „any authoritarian means of leadership that lacks external checks and balances, and suppresses alternative viewpoints no matter how reasonable they may be, is doomed to atrophy.” The editor concludes: „Amsalem’s rebellion provides hope that the haredi public will eventually wake up to this reality – and the sooner the better.”
Haaretz discusses the disturbing trend of favoritism showed by local hospitals to incoming foreign patients over Israeli citizens, and notes that „Over the last few years, medical tourism has become an enticing source of income for hospitals, but it risks undermining the service Israeli patients receive.” The editor states: „The vast sums brought in by medical tourism could help develop medicine in Israel. But this benefit will only be true if medical tourism is tightly monitored and hospitals are forced to act transparently, investing their profits in nothing but the well-being of Israeli patients.”
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