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Initial estimates suggested Hamas would launch up to 200 rockets every day while under IAF fire.

Cabinet activates National Emergency Authority, giving IDF extra authority in its dealings with the civilian population.

Likud ads feature Kadima leader with slogan: 'It's too big for Livni [to handle].'

Some 69 percent of individuals looking for new jobs were fired from their previous workplace.

Director of National Council for the Child calls plea bargain 'a prize for pedophiles.'

Girl held along with her mother and grandfather, despite having received tourist visas from Israeli embassy.

The number of Israelis receiving minimum wage or less grew by 22 percent in the past 10 years.

80 percent of secular, Jewish Israelis believe sex workers need government support to escape the profession.

Latet head: Despite recent growth in employment figures, Israel's poor have become poorer.

Only by electing additional women who can prove their abilities can the prejudices against female politicians be diminished.

Israeli manpower companies have pocketed thousands of dollars for finding workplaces for foreign workers, in violation of both Israeli and international law.

The winners of the tender to run the private prison near Be?er Sheva speak loftily of wanting to serve society in Israel, but they will also want to serve the interests of their companies.

Yomtov Duak was shot to death while guarding the store's entrance, when he tried to prevent an armed robber from coming in.

Precisely with the entirely symbolic role of the president is a real symbol needed at this time - a woman who will soften the macho and bullying image of the state.

Junya Lek Yimprasert's message is clear: The insufferable and evil exploitation of migrant workers must come to an end.

Since we can assume that in a future war the home front will be attacked by even more powerful missiles, it would be a good idea for the local councils to be prepared.

Like every proper boss, Olmert should have called Ramon to order, just as a CEO does when he is informed that one of his directors is suspected of a crime.

Ever since Sudanese refugees arrived here, Israel has not disdained any means in its attempt to get rid of them. Neither the lessons of history, the protests of human rights organizations, the commands of conscience nor moral considerations interfere in the least.

Instead of raising funds to develop and maintain the Israel Electricity Corp, the state prefers to get involved in an adventure that is liable to endanger the reliability of electricity supply and cause it to be be out of reach of many Israelis.

Olmert is holding more than a million of the country's weakest and most needy citizens hostage to contemptible political considerations.

Roni Bar-On said this week in Kiryat Shmona that every city worker in the north who leaves their town or city is a deserter and therefore will not be paid.

Legislation which would obligate security companies to improve the treatment of their workers has been tied up in bureaucracy for over a year.

About two weeks ago, Na'amat President Talia Livni tossed an important idea into the public arena: She wrote to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the heads of the Knesset factions that the time has come to appoint a woman as president of the state.

Only politicians with both a sense of social obligation and political muscle can turn the welfare ministry into a social affairs ministry, and make good on at least some of the promises made in this election campaign.

Combating violence in an uncompromising way requires a lot more than policemen. Also needed are educators, welfare workers and truant officers, prosecutors and a true commitment.

The legislative proposal was simple: A worker who does not receive the pay and conditions to which he is entitled could demand the money from the party that ordered the security or cleaning services.

There was a time when it was customary to test how close politicians were to the reality of the voters. Now, nobody asks them, because nobody suspects that they even know the answer.

Thousands of families have been evicted from their homes during Sharon's tenure because they did not have money to repay their mortgage.

Instead of aspiring to emulate the performance of the Celtic tiger, Israel should adopt the more modest habits of the Dutch cow.

The danger posed to the labor market by several hundred single mothers and their children is negligible in comparison to the moral obligation to grant them new lives.

This is not the first time, and probably not the last, that child allowances are used as a bargaining chip by the ultra-Orthodox. This is also not the first time the allowances are being used to discriminate against the Arabs.

Everything is just the opposite of what you hear, as the finance minister says. Under the new Wisconsin project, those who are unemployed now may find themselves poorer than ever before.