Haaretz Editorial

Instead of retroactively canceling scandalous expenses, it would behoove the prime minister to make the budget for the prime minister’s residence public. Let the public have a look and decide if that’s how it wants its money spent.

For most of the residents of Nofit, the members of the Hawaled clan are invisible. Their cluster of shacks is reached via Nofit’s access road, which thousands of residents drive daily, and yet only a few have ever visited the area or are even aware of the conditions there.

Since Israel has a goal to serve as a refuge for the Jewish people, it should set an example in its behavior toward persecuted asylum-seekers; instead, it devises a benighted trick to escape the burden.

Secrets of the state should be kept, but it cannot justify violating its citizens' human rights.

Neither law nor precedent requires local authority heads to resign in the event of an indictment, and mayors exploit this loophole to continue affecting the lives of their city's residents and employees, including ones who may have complained or even testified against them.

Why did Yair Lapid deny that he'd smoked marijuana and risk being exposed to the public? Why in 2013 can't an Israeli politician just say he smoked when he was young but that he stopped long ago and opposes it now?

Potential partners in the next coalition cannot say they didn't know that the Netanyahu-Lieberman policy on Israeli-Palestinian peace was one of 'crisis management' at best.

Law enforcement and the courts must convey the clear message that sports stadia and pitches are not outside the law. Such a message will be conveyed only if significant indictments are filed and harsher penalties imposed as a rule.

The Turkel Committee wanted what is best for Israel and the IDF. Now we must demand that the government and army not engage in foot-dragging or try to sweep the report's important conclusions under the carpet, but instead implement them promptly, exactly as written.

After four years as U.S. president, Barack Obama is hastening to try to save Israel from itself; centrist parties wishing to join the coalition must now pay their dues and embark on a diplomatic rescue mission.

The 120 members of Israel's new Knesset bear a heavy responsibility: They must repair the grave damage left behind by their predecessors in the 18th Knesset, damage that threatens Israel’s continued operation as a liberal democratic state.

The prime minister and defense minister would rather play James Bond and turn Israeli media into a fighter in the “perception-shaping” army instead of explaining the action and its motives.

Israel is causing grave injustice to dozens of old, poverty-stricken communities that make a living from herding and farming.

The UN’s 'built-in bias' against Israel must not serve as yet another excuse for a policy, which at least half of all Israelis oppose.

If Yair Lapid aspires to influence the country, he must insist on receiving the ministries with the greatest influence over the lives of Israel's citizens: the justice and interior portfolios.

It is not sufficient to give the post of foreign minister to someone who is the polar opposite of former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. What is needed is a policy that will truly seek to achieve a mix that will provide peace and security.

Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer's resignation comes on the heels of news that the budget deficit stands at an astounding NIS 39 billion and the consequent demotion of deputy budget director Eyal Epstein.

The prime minister's former bureau chief confessed he acted unacceptably. Instead of setting high moral standards, Netanyahu prefers to keep faith with his crony.

Only 24 hours before the world was set to mark International Holocaust Day, Jerusalem's soccer team unfurled the banner 'Beitar is pure forever.'

Prime Minister Netanyahu would do well to forgo presenting a decision dealing mainly with ownership claims over land Bedouin purchased before Israel was founded to the outgoing cabinet on Sunday.

By rejecting Hanin Zuabi out of hand as a partner to any kind of political activity, Lapid joined those responsible for the dangerous trend of excluding Arabs from the Israeli political process.

In the absence of Likud moderates in the next government, following their marginalization on the party’s election slate, Lapid will be the representative of liberal Israel.

The Knesset election did not end with a clear decision. Instead, a direction for the future, ahead of the next election, is emerging.

The vote of every citizen who believes in the path of political Zionism and democratic values is crucial, and not casting it is a luxury we cannot afford.

In the final lap before the elections, we are being inundated with candidates' unfounded economic promises.