Haaretz Editorial

The report released on the death of Mohammed al-Dura doesn’t lift the fog off the case, if there ever was any. Instead, it raises a more painful issue: the many young people killed by IDF soldiers during the second intifada.

Without the integration of the Haredim and the Arabs into the economy, the state will have difficulty sustaining itself over time. The government must make dealing with these two communities one of its top priorities.

Without recognizing the Palestinian Nakba it is impossible to understand the source of the Israeli-Arab conflict.

The government’s intention to make the crime of settlement outposts kosher is in direct and flagrant contradiction to its masquerade that it wants to advance the peace process.

When it comes to the ultra-Orthodox school system, the finance minister didn’t do his homework - not during the election campaign nor while the Finance Ministry was crafting the state budget.

Police station commanders must make broad and efficient use of their authority to release suspects from detention when it is appropriate, instead of infringing on these individuals' rights and putting undue strain on the court system.

The economy is no less important than weaponry. A prudent defense budget will achieve higher security at lower cost.

The purpose of Amana is to create 'facts on the ground' and thwart any possibility of a future diplomatic accord.

The attorney general's recommendation to make the exclusion of women in public places a criminal offense is a necessary step by a democratic state that wants its citizens to enjoy equal rights and opportunities.

The libel bill, which was approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, would have a dangerous chilling effect on criticism of IDF operations.

The package of budget cuts and tax increases, with all its shortcomings, was an indisputable necessity.

Locking up asylum seekers stands in opposition to Israel’s international responsibilities and to the Basic Law on Human Dignity and Freedom.

The Israeli government must make sure that its military operations will not spark an escalation that could set the whole region aflame.

Avigdor Lieberman calls his proposal to raise the threshold for a party to enter the Knesset “strengthening governability,” but it sounds more like the tyranny of the majority and weakening the checks and balances inherent in the Israeli system of government.

The past few days suggest most members of Israel's new government regard every new initiative for advancing the peace process as a threat that must be repulsed. Such a government is a threat to its citizens.

Indeed, the destructive lifestyle of the ultra-Orthodox must change, and there is a historic opportunity to generate change.

Bringing a suspect to court doesn’t increase the danger he constitutes. But not bringing him greatly increases another danger, which is no less grave: It widens the cracks in Israel’s democracy.

The storm over currency poses a much bigger challenge to Israel’s educational and cultural leaders than merely a commitment to fix the injustice in a decade. It obligates them to reevaluate school curricula and fix the country’s knowledge infrastructure.

By deciding not to accord respect to the Knesset and not to deliver his important speeches there, Lapid is undercutting the democratic role of the legislature.

Obama does not want to be sucked into a Syrian war whose outcome and impacts cannot be predicted.

Israel’s governments have contributed to ultra-Orthodox education for too many years. As a result the Haredi education system has thrived and the ultra-Orthodox community’s seclusion and separatism have intensified.

Israel's choice to extend the emergency order denying the unification of citizens with spouses from enemy states strengthens the argument that Israel is a discriminatory apartheid state.

The new bill targeting African migrants would weaken their position in the battle for fair wages, and increase their distress.

The cabinet would do well to promote open and accessible government by publishing the minutes of all its meetings, as Knesset committees do, as long as there is no fear of harming state security or foreign relations.

The source of authority in the IDF must be one: state laws, translated into military orders, and not the often racist proclamations stemming from the 'opinion of the Torah.'