| 3 July 2018
Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press |
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| Today’s issues: In defense of the media, Lapid goes AWOL, enlightened racism, united in appreciation, and Arabs and Orthodox Jews are not the issue . |
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| The Jerusalem Post states: “The heinous attack on the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, in which four journalists and a sales assistant were killed on Thursday, should sound an alarm for those who persistently bash the media with impunity,” and declares: “If nothing else, the attack on the Capital Gazette in Annapolis should cause public figures to pause before unleashing their anger on the press. It could have lethal consequences.” |
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| Haaretz comments on the Yesh Atid vote in favor of Avigdor Lieberman’s new conscription bill that in one stroke betrayed Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid’s position as opposition leader along with the trust of his voters, and asserts: “Yesh Atid’s vote of confidence in the dangerous Netanyahu government, combined with its disregard of its first commitment to its voters, is a source of great embarrassment for him and his party. Lapid has been revealed as an ideologically spineless opportunist, one focused solely on increasing his electoral power. This is not how an opposition party behaves, and it certainly is not the right behavior for someone who seeks to be elected prime minister.” |
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| Yediot Aharonot attacks the so-called ‘enlightened’ sections of the population that reside in towns and kibbutzim around Israel that, in contrast to the message of acceptance preached by the country’s elite, is unwilling to accept different social groups – such as asylum seekers, Arabs or gays – in its midst, and states: “Objecting to someone only because of their ethnicity is racism.” |
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| Israel Hayom laments that Theodor Herzl, without whom we might not be here today, has been nearly forgotten by the State, and notes: “while many movements and institutions have been established over the years to preserve the legacies of various figures from a number of streams of Zionism, its founding leader remains to a great extent without a home.” |
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| Globes focuses on the latest OECD report on the Israeli economy, published earlier this year, that finds unequivocally that not all of Israel’s population benefits equally from the country’s economic growth, and is concerned by the “social gaps, the poor state of infrastructures, the standard of education in Israel, and the low level of social services provided to Israeli citizens.” The author warns that the standard of living in Israel could be harmed unless there is a swift change in economic and social structures, and adds: “The problems that threaten to drag Israel’s economy down have to do with the entire workforce.” |
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| [Ben-Dror Yemini, Ofir Haivri and Avi Temkin wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot, Israel Hayom and Globes, respectively.] |
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