Nehemia Shtrasler

Chaim Amsellem is a one-man opposition to Shas leader Eli Yishai and he fearlessly opposes Shas' distorted worldview on all important issues.

That's why anyone who goes after the tycoons wins public support. That's why Tshuva is the bad guy in this story, no matter how many public relations agents he hires.

The Likud raised the number of sponsored yeshiva students from four hundred to tens of thousands, yet it blames Labor.

Obama believes (like all neo-socialists ) that bigger budgets will bring growth and create new jobs. But this is a fallacy.

The agreement between the Histadrut and the treasury will not be judged only based on what it costs, but by how the money is divided and by what streamlining accompanies it.

Britain has joined the Merkel school. But Israel is closer to the Obama way of thinking - and the day will come when we have to pay the full price.

By separating it from the Economic Arrangements Bill, a possible telecommunications reform has been sentenced to death by torture in whatever committee ultimately discusses it.

The state's 7.5 million citizens swelled with pride on Sunday after they learned that Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer was declared central bank governor of the year by Euromoney magazine. There was, however, one citizen left smarting.

Why do we need the other 28 ministers when all they are is a rubber stamp?

Every year the governemtn doles out millions to yeshiva students while grabbing tuition fees from students at secular universities.

No economist knows what the 'correct' rate is. BOI chief Fischer does not know, either. The 'correct' rate can only be determined by the market.

We must act now to stop the infiltrators, who are part of a much larger problem - the 130,000 legal migrant workers and the 170,000 illegal migrant workers who live in Israel.

Despite successes up to now, Israel remains a country confronted by security threats. A regional crisis can strike us, without any connection to wider global trends.

The interior minister will have to ask forgiveness from seven and a half million Israelis this year - and it is not certain they will give it.

Only after a catastrophe arrives will the politicians on both sides be able to sit down and sign off on painful concessions.

No one expected the Israeli economy to recover so quickly from the world economic crisis and attain 4.1 percent annual growth and unemployment of just 6.2 percent.

If Tel Aviv wants a subway system, it should trust the private sector to do the job.

If more experience than ever before is needed to fulfill top IDF roles, why is the army retirement age so low?

When a government company is run poorly for years, chronically losing money and amassing huge debts, nothing happens.

Economic Arrangements Law implements the government's economic policy; without it we'd be living in a closed, poor, old-fashioned economy.

Food here is as expensive as it is in Iceland, and our hotels are even more expensive. Renting a car is admittedly cheaper here, but we've managed to outdo Iceland when it comes to housing prices.

MKs Haim Katz and Shelly Yachimovich are behaving on the basis of their hatred for the free market, and until it is destroyed and they set up an economic paradise here similar to Cuba or North Korea, they will not rest.

The finance minister has been spinning webs around the public's eyes, while we hesitate to react, and when we do, its too late.

The prime minister will pay any price to stay in office, even if it means sustaining an inflated defense budget.

Steinitz's about-face regarding the newly found offshore gas reserve raises the question of whether we are dealing with a man of reversals.