Avirama Golan

Strike does well by some subcontracted workers but has also whitewashed the practice of using such workers in the first place.

Division into 'generations' is an evil born in industry that seeped into other areas of the labor market, both the private sector and the public one.

Treasury paints workers as the enemies of progress, because they refuse to accept that one of the tender winner's conditions is that its own workers maintain the new rail cars.

The young people who composed the protesters' list of demands understand economic and social policy, and social action; they champion demand-side economics, the basis of the welfare state.

The government is now working on fear-mongering and warmongering, turning existential despair into panic, and panic into a basis for bonding.

Until now the process of abandoning the educational system to extremist political groups has proceeded with relative caution. Now the door is wide open for them - thanks to Breaking the Silence.

Instead of focusing on his own agenda, Lapid defines himself by attaching a demonic image to his opponent; instead of proposing his own social economic alternative, he chooses to market to the satiated classes a pledge to continue the neo-liberal frenzy that benefits them so greatly.

For all of his adult life economist Shlomo Maoz was - and will probably continue to be - one of the leading exponents of the system that led to his dismissal.