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The Jerusalem Post warns that the situation on the northern border is fragile and could rapidly escalate, and adds that Israel “is playing an increasingly dangerous game of ping-pong that could eventually lead to all-out war.” The editor argues that “Hezbollah’s bellicose intentions, backed up by concrete actions like the building up of armaments and the encouragement of the Iranians, will eventually lead to a military confrontation with Israel,” and concludes: “It is just a matter of time.”

Yediot Aharonot is concerned that Israel is ill prepared for a flare-up in the north, and calls on the government to “speed up the process of equipping itself with the [David’s Sling] interception system, which could defend the state against Hezbollah missiles with the same efficiency that Iron Dome defended the state against Hamas rockets.” The author declares: “Time is a critical factor, so the government must give preference to a system capable of defending the state, the home front, the IDF facilities and the vital infrastructures,” and adds: “Without sufficient protection of the home front, the offensive options are uncertain too.”

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Haaretz welcomes the trend of women complainants in sexual harassment cases coming out into the limelight, as it “increases the chances that justice will be done for more and more women,” and points out that this is a conceptual change which means that women “will no longer have to surrender to harmful norms that allow those in authority, in particular, and men in general, to do whatever they wish to women’s bodies and dignity.”

Yisrael Hayom discusses the coalition negotiations and contends that the security and education portfolios are the most important, because: “The first ensures our physical existence and the second our spiritual existence, and together they guarantee the future of our historic homeland.” The author asserts: “The new education minister must be someone who wants the job, not someone who gets it by default,” and argues that “He or she must persuade the government to invest the resources necessary to make the State of Israel a beacon of high-level education.”

Globes discusses increasing Chinese involvement in the Israeli economy, predominantly with regard to infrastructure, and notes that “over the past five years, the beginnings of what may be termed the ‘Chinese chapter’ in the history of the Israeli economy have become apparent.” The author claims that the Chinese intent is to build a trade hub for their products with Europe, for which the long-term economic benefits for the Israeli economy will be tremendous, and downplays “those who will claim that this is not at all some Chinese master plan, rather just a side-effect of the Chinese economy’s financial and competitive ‘natural force.’”