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Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press
Today’s issues: Pension reform, putting children before politics, treating Amona and Tira as equals, and Putin gets hit, while hitting Obama.
The Jerusalem Post commends Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon for launching a pension reform that will enable tens of thousands of workers to retire with more money. Noting the concern of the pension providers who feel that the reform will cut into their business, the editor stresses: “If pension providers are angry it is a sign Kahlon is doing something right.”
Haaretz slams the Cabinet for transferring the responsibility for the day care program for children from newborn to three years, together with 10,000 students in the Ministry of Economy vocational schools, from the Ministry of Economy to the Ministry of Social Services rather than to the Ministry of Education, which has the resources and experience required to set up the necessary programs, and asserts: “The care of young children and of vocational-school students should not fall victim to a political deal. Day care centers and trade schools should be assigned to their natural home: the Education Ministry.”
Yediot Aharonot discusses the new regularization bill, according to which settlers in Amona will be entitled to hold on to their property, built illegally on Palestinian land and despite a High Court of Justice ruling that the land was to be returned to its owners and the Jewish families’ homes were to be demolished. The author argues that while the new bill may be acceptable, it must apply to all of Israel’s citizens equally, and declares: “While MKs work on the regularization bill, the government is demanding that 50,000 buildings, constructed without permits, must be demolished before it releases an aid package to Arab towns across Israel. These towns and buildings are also worthy of a ‘regularization.’”
Israel Hayom believes that the most significant achievement of the Russian military intervention in Syria is in exposing the United States “in all its pernicious ineptitude, lacking the will and determination to achieve its own goals, and worse, lacking a vision and objectives that its allies and enemies alike in the region can understand.” The author asserts: “The immense damage caused by American conduct in Syria, as it pertains to the Russians, is not due to one specific mistake or another but to the amateurish approach that has conveyed a fundamental misunderstanding of what is happening in the region, a lack of experience, naivety and weakness of the type that a superpower like the U.S. must never project,” and concludes: “In the fight between Putin and Obama what we have is a knockout; but in Syria the war will continue for a long time to come.”
[Yaron London and Eyal Zisser wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot and Israel Hayom, respectively. |
