Neri Livneh

Far-right Knesset member's battle to extend Israeli labor laws to women in the West Bank may just be one more step on the road to turning the occupation into total, and legitimate, annexation.

Anyone who dreams, in the spirit of our times, about combining work with family life needs to choose between the two − as if we had returned to the prefeminist era.

The feminists in parliament should join forces to ensure that women's voices are heard loud and clear both inside and outside the legislature.

Who is working for whom - Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto for the Israeli businessman Nochi Dankner, or vice versa?

It is possible and desirable to boycott Egged of whose drivers only 0.4 percent are women - also part of its discrimination against them - and not even one has succeeded in becoming a member with a share in the cooperative.

In August, no one has the energy to get into a dispute, especially those so-called lefties, who because of their politics are suspected to be from Tel Aviv.

All that's left to do is wait to discover who the next people will be on the hit list of the Protocols of the Guardians of Zionism, which is apparently growing longer from minute to minute.

Former PM Ehud Olmert apparently likes to help friends and they, as it turns out, like to help him.

How can Channel 10, whose raison d’etre is providing competition to Channel 2, decide of its own free will to remove the program that offers the only competition to “Ulpan Shishi”?

Did the owners really donate their bodies, before they died, of their own free will?

Had Israelis joined in the doctors' protests in the summer instead of strolling through the boulevards, it is possible that the situation of the doctors and of medicine in this country would be better now.

Beitar is a reflection of everything that is off-putting in Jerusalem and likely to lead to its destruction - unwarranted hatred and religious zealotry.

Without going into the bill's details, it's enough to see the names of the ministers who opposed it, the democrats in the Likud-led cabinet, to understand we're talking about an anti-democratic law.

Why is R. refusing to testify? There are a number of possible answers to this question.

There is a chance of broader national consensus over signing agreements with leaders who have round faces with smooth skin, full lips and big eyes.

Beit Shemesh's process of becoming more ultra-Orthodox has been underway for several years, but who other than the residents gives a hoot about that were it not for Na'ama Margolese.

Instead of removing women from public spaces, a public appeal could be issued asking Haredi men to stay home or wherever they feel safe and protected from the sin lying at their doorstep in the female form.

This post-partum depression leads to possible solutions that the government - and mainly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, known to be attentive to the people's hearts - will invent in their fevered brains to find us some new occupation that will unite us as a nation.

What would happen if hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of citizens really did rush to the Interior Ministry to register as without religion? Will we become a state without a religion instead of a Jewish state?

If God really died in Auschwitz, He may be turning over in His grave when he hears who has enlisted Him on their side.

How have we transformed into a people that knows that the only thing that works is brute force against people in our own country, and especially, against our neighbors?

In the past, Tisha B'Av was like the Fast of Gedalia and the Fast of Esther - fast days that only the super-religious observed.

The trouble is that the more you feel like going to Jerusalem the more nearly impossible the mission becomes if you need to rely on public transportation.

Who are the best Jews according to the spirit of the text? The ultra-Orthodox, who do not serve in the army and leave the dirty work of pouring wrath on the nations in the hands of God; or the new Jewish species, as embodied in the arrogant image of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman?

The claims about Katsav's contribution over the years to Israeli society are nonsense. At most, he worked for his household and himself.