Nehemia Shtrasler

How can we know that the MKs' motives are impure? Because they always neglect to include anything relating to themselves in the bills.

Eliahu was for many years the enfant terrible of the insurance industry, in the best sense of the term, but the banks don't want him.

Shas entered politics in order to extort as much as possible for the benefit of its own elites.

There is no reason to increase the brainwashing the public is already subject to on the two commercial channels. Sometimes it seems more time is devoted to commercials and previews than the programs themselves.

The Wisconsin plan's achievements have angered the Employment Service's 800 officials, who have imposed sanctions on it because the program proves that the private market is succeeding precisely where they failed. It also infuriates MKs to whom the word privatization is like a red rag to a bull.

If we lower taxes and cut government spending, we won't have to be afraid of another September disaster like the Lehman Brothers crash and the world financial crisis.

The positions being offered to those who leave Kadima - for instance, in the Foreign Ministry (an additional minister) and the Public Security Ministry (a deputy minister) - are totally superfluous. They could just as well be appointed Minister of Nothing or Deputy Minister for Zilch.

MKs and the media will continue to go for gimmicks and sensationalist headlines rather than serious issues.

The moment Haim Glick heard the High Court of Justice ruling blocking privately run prisons, he felt a great injustice had been done to prisoners here and to Israel as a whole.

It is true that the Kfir battalion's signs of protest do not yet constitute a mutiny, but we must not underestimate them. They teach us what is liable to happen.

It would be nice to get into the prestigious OECD, but it isn't worth stripping bare for the privilege.

We have received a very different Netanyahu than the one who was finance minister in 2003. Back then he had principles.

If a worldwide populism contest had been held this week, our Knesset members would have won hands down, thanks to their original call to violate a law they themselves enacted.

Dozens of former senior officers travel the world trying to sell arms. Their slogan: What is good for the Israel Defense Forces is good for you.

The better the labor conditions in the public sector, the worse it is for the economy, as it stunts economy's growth.

It is amazing to see, time after time, just how the lust for quick profits can drive people crazy, to what extent the dream of getting rich quickly without actually working can turn their heads.

European economists believe budget deficit should not exceed 3 percent of gross domestic product. Israel would receive a warning if it were a member of the EU, since we, too, have a budget deficit that exceeds 3 percent of GDP.

It can be stated confidently that Ehud Barak has a sophisticated sense of humor. Otherwise, he would not have dismissed Social Affairs Minister Isaac Herzog from the ministerial ethics committee and appointed himself to the job.

Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan should have expanded the deposit law, but the people with the money are more important to him. They are more influential than all the green organizations and the country?s citizens.

The IDF is a prime candidate for serious illnesses like osteoporosis and paralysis - maladies we saw affect the IDF during the Second Lebanon War and which we can't allow to afflict us again.

The Iranian leader?s greatest scare tactic of all nuclear weapons is just what our defense officials need to get the funding they want.

The evacuees from Gush Katif have managed to make monkeys of us yet again.

Those poor, wretched Jews of America. And all the other Jews around the world, for that matter. How will they manage to get through Yom Kippur when their clocks are still set on daylight savings time?