Haaretz Editorial

The official tendency to regard the 'price tag' gangs as a nuisance rather than an actual threat has to be shelved.

The Netanyahu government excels in laying out grandiose, expensive, impractical master plans. Even if ultimately 30,000 citizens are not evicted by force from their homes, the plan's threatening tone already deepens the strong lack of confidence already prevalent among the Bedouin.

Unlike Turkey, which expelled the Israeli ambassador as punishment for the killing of its civilians and Israel's insistence not to apologize, Egypt forgoes similar step after its soldiers were killed.

People all over the world associated the World Trade Center with New York, with the American dream, and also in many respects with their own dreams.

Israel should view the harassment of Israeli Turkish Airlines passengers humbly as it serves as an embarrassing reflection on us.

Robert Gates described Benjamin Netanyahu as 'ungrateful' and as one who does not bother to do his homework prior to important working meetings.

Ner Etzion students, who have been sentenced to remain at home until some school deigns to admit them, will carry the memory of this rejection as a formative experience of their attempt to be accepted into Israeli society.

An opinion issued by the Attorney General's Office with regard to Dead Sea Works helps to establish principles that are important not only from an economic standpoint, but no less so from a moral and social standpoint too.

The residents have received a real pay raise: an increase of 47 percent on average, to be paid over a period of nine years, not including additional pay for seniority and promotions.

Israel should express regret, as it should have done before the report was issued, pay compensation and restore relations. That is a small price to pay for such a strategic asset as relations with Turkey.

If hundreds of thousands of citizens play their civic role and take to the streets Saturday, the government, the politicians and big business will be incapable of ignoring their demands.

Reports have emerged that Prime Minister Netanyahu will ask President Peres to represent Israel in the General Assembly in the vote on Palestinian statehood. The president should not agree to go.

A common denominator between competitive sports and televised entertainment competitions is the large amount of money invested in results, and in betting on the results.

The terror attack north of Eilat a week and a half ago demonstrated what was already known for a while: Israel's limitations on the Egyptian military presence in the Sinai could also be to Israel's detriment.

Medicine is an important profession and doctors in public medicine should be supported. It appears that in view of the budgetary restraints, this agreement carries out this function well.

The man on the street who brought down his rulers in a fit of rage and demanded that they be tried is directing similar hatred toward Israel, with much less justification.

In recent years, the extreme Israeli right has developed an alliance with heads of the evangelical movement, who define themselves as Christian Zionists, some of whom believe that another Holocaust of the Jews will ensure the resurrection of Jesus.

Film council rules state movies can be limited to audiences 18 and over in cases involving an 'obscene film or one that offends public sensibilities'; 'Hashoter' does not include such content.

The crisis in relations caused by the killing of five Egyptian soldiers on Thursday is not over. The incident has been etched deep into the consciousness of the Egyptian public and will continue to affect the relationship between the two states.

It is in Israel's interest not to make the current spasm of violence more extreme, but to act in a proportionate manner while working to find points of consensus that will break the automatic cycle of violence.

Egypt is not a terrorist cell, but rather a neighbor and a fellow partner in facing the threat.

The defense budget deserves cutting, because in recent years it has expanded greatly - from NIS 46 billion in 2006 to NIS 54 billion this year and NIS 55.5 billion in 2012.

Netanyahu's comments suggest a retreat from his promise to Trajtenberg - that he would change his opinions on socioeconomic priorities.

The state report on the Carmel fire response has seared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He and all others responsible must give a public accounting so that officials will never feel they have done their duty by sending letters to each other.