Haaretz Editorial

The cottage cheese protest was preceded by a campaign against an increase in gasoline prices, but consumer protests, for all their importance, just exemplify public apathy on crucial issues that will influence the future much more than the price of cottage cheese.

By declaring the conflict insoluble, Netanyahu is leaving no opening for reconciliation and understanding with the Palestinians and the Arab and Muslim world.

It's time for IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz to bring back the original version of the Yizkor memorial prayer, featuring the words, 'the nation of Israel,' to IDF ceremonies, after it was changed during the Six Day War.

Accumulated experience has shown that Plato was wrong; writing and reading did not deplete the human spirit, but empowered it.

Trying a journalist for fulfilling his professional mission would constitute a stain on Israeli democracy and do critical harm to freedom of expression.

The new legislative initiative which would ban human rights organizations from employing national service volunteers ignores their democratic mission.

It's true that growth in Israel is high, unemployment is low and there is a balance-of-payments surplus; but still, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is falling.

Anyone who thinks that the crisis in Syria affords Israel an opportunity to "change reality" would do well to put aside such dangerous delusions.

Technologies of the 21st century enable us to communicate, but expose us to the threat of invasion of privacy. The attorney general, the courts and the Knesset must make sure the surveillance of suspected criminals does not lead to wholesale infringement on privacy. The disturbing rise in the number of court warrants shows that the police cannot be trusted to show restraint on their own.

The negotiations will not come to life in the twilight of the Damascus regime. But Israel will not be able to persist indefinitely in denying the need for openness to a peace process.

It will be interesting to see what pretexts Netanyahu uses this time to strike down the French Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal, whose whole purpose is to bring the parties back to the negotiating table.

The time has come to end the criminalization, repudiation and branding of drug users who do not harm others.

The Israel Police has been tainted in recent years by the use of excessive force against the citizenry. The inordinate use of taser guns is an example of this.

Shortening summer vacation with a last-minute announcement shows a lack of management, and will cause parents unnecessary trouble without contributing a thing to education.

Former Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann and his successor, Yaakov Neeman have created a wonder drug for concealing governmental corruption.

If the new reform plan is to succeed, the Education Ministry and the teachers' union must recruit the teachers themselves in support for the changes.

Though Netanyahu convinced the Canadian Prime Minister to support his stand, Obama didn't change his position and neither did the leaders of the European Union.

The return of normal life to Gaza might encourage its citizens to put the brakes on terror. More importantly, the opening of the crossing will clearly show that Israel has decided to disengage from Gaza and abandon its all-but-direct occupation.

But Israel wants to make money, as in selling weapons to Iran during its war with Iraq, Israel knows how to close its eyes.

There is a surfeit of city rabbis in Israel. But instead of doing away with the bloated religious councils, the treasury wages chief capitulated to political pressures from the ultra-Orthodox parties and agreed to the wage hike.

Netanyahu is leading Israel and the Palestinians into a new round of violence, along with Israel's isolation and deep disagreement with the American administration.

Between loyalty to Obama's way and loyalty to Netanyahu's way, American Jews must choose loyalty to the future of the State of Israel.

The memory of the dead must not be turned into a defining element of national identity.

Netanyahu's decision to have Israel clash with Obama is not only a dead end, it could remove the only protective wall Israel has left and sacrifice the country's future on the altar of hollow ideology and unbridled nationalism.

Instead of encouraging the election of honest prime ministers, MK Ronit Tirosh has proposed that corruption should be stashed away in the freezer with investigations postponed until the end of the prime minister's term.