Nehemia Shtrasler

Nehemia Shtrasler
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Haim Katz - Ofer Vaknin
The shekel drops / Katz's paw

Haim Katz, chair of the Knesset Labor, Welfare and Health Committee, made Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz a laughingstock - he sponsored a bill to keep the retirement age at 62.

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Dizengoff Square
Bottom shekel / If we build it, they will come

Why the greens are foolish for arguing against a hotel in Timna.

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From the 31st floor

To convince us that it’s impossible to make cuts in the fat and inflated IDF budget, Barak is using the familiar method of scaring people.

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Ofer Eini - Tal Cohen - 05082011
Eini returns to center stage

By being so inflexible about work security for public-sector employees the Histadrut effectively forced administrators to achieve flexibility by bypassing the unions and hiring workers through contractors.

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A source of hypocrisy

Anyone who still claims that the summer protests didn't achieve anything is wrong, big-time.

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Uzi Landau as Robin Hood

Income tax must be lowered for low earners, negative-income-tax payments must be increased, and stipends that ensure minimum income must be improved so that weak citizens can take the money and do with it what they want.

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A source of contention

Ofer Eini wants to prove that he is the real leader of the Israeli economy and that it dances to his tune. Wednesday we will see if Steinitz and Netanyahu surrender and give him what he wants.

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Subsidized housing plans will be condemned by the public

Atias' criteria for subsidized housing make a mockery of social justice. Because social justice means a positive correlation between what you give to the state and what you get from it. But on the housing issue, the less you give, the more you'll get.

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