Yossi Sarid

The run-up to this vote has been marked by an apathy one small step away from despair.

The concept that parties can implement their policy only if they join the government is utterly false. People should vote for a party they trust and identify with, not for one that would serve in the cabinet - any cabinet.

One might never find any pork in its establishments, heaven forbid, but piggishness apparently meets the strictest standards of kashrut.

There were 26 kibbutzniks in the first Knesset. The fact that no representatives of this great movement are likely to be in the next one is proof that it is no longer great.

All that matters is staying on the hamster wheel, not whether you betray or befoul or embezzle, whether you are bought or sold.

He's a 'little Stalin,' Ayalon's father said of Lieberman. But he will yet be a big one. Next time he will hobnob with the great and refuse to deal with the peons.

Dear Mr. President, you must continue what you tried to do at the beginning of your term. Then you didn’t succeed, but now we’re telling you: Finish it. For our sake, finish it.

We always knew there really wasn't any difference between Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman.

After the sentencing of former PM Ehud Olmert, we can accuse the judges in Jerusalem of being too forgiving with regard to violations by public figures.

The left is often perceived as being elitist and condescending, but that's not necessarily our fault.

The core of this debate must now be moved from Iran to the Israeli arena: Is our government responsible for its actions, or is it temporarily insane?

Only in recent years are we being extricated gradually from the myth of the heroism and sacrifice of Bar Kokhba, who presented himself as the Messiah.

In the month of Adar we all make merry, in the month of Nisan it's quite contrary: How are we to get through the pharaonic seder?

Why should a 96-year-old Israeli Jewish woman from Kiryat Haim, a Holocaust survivor, want to be buried in the Christian cemetery in Haifa?

Menachem Begin had a talent for upsetting the bucket that he himself had labored to fill. The mouth that spoke peace was the mouth that entangled us in war.

Our teachers and scientists are neither soldiers nor contract workers, they cry out when they see a dark cloud hiding the sun.

Yara is no longer a girl. Do the math. This week she went to Milan on business, and history repeated itself. But a moment before she entered the cubicle for the body check, she stopped and asked for her passport back.

The current Knesset is more nationalist, so it's worse than any of its predecessors. It will be remembered for its religious twilight and for blurring its democratic senses.

We've had worse slurs directed at us in our lifetimes. It's not so awful to be in the same company as the world's best newspaper.

There is pride in serving as the only opposition-in-principal to the Netanyahu-Lieberman-Yishai-Barak government, one which dreams of a different Israel, regardless of whether it is Netanyahu's nightmare.

Welcome to Theresienstadt − with your own eyes you will see the lovely art exhibition, with your own ears you will hear the excellent orchestra.

'He who sowed the wind should not feign horror when the Jewish terror storm comes. He who demands silencing the muezzin should not fake surprise when a mosque is burned.'

When it comes to cottage cheese we go out and do battle, but when we are poisoned by government- sponsored delicacies, a consumer boycott is inconceivable.

Democracy is fine, but the president was elected by the majority and in Ukraine majority rules, not him.

Pri Galil is Hatzor and Hatzor is the factory; take the factory away and it will be ghost town.

There is a Great Wall of China between the high-living Netanyahus and their subjects. What will it take for people to realize that they are the dirty-dancing, uninvited guests at all of our weddings?

Education ministers tend to deal with trivialities, since the core problems are too huge.

Israel looks nothing like the Zionist utopia Herzl envisioned, so we might as well stop putting words in his mouth.

Shimon Peres is the all-time visionary, who on days of celebration or mourning outdoes himself. From his sea of poetic phrases we draw out two pearls.

It’s said that tycoons are hated in Israel and around the world. Who among you is free of it?

Those who attacked Amira Hass for empathizing with Palestinian stone-throwing appear ready to condemn any form of resistance.

U.S. President Obama has left behind a forlorn Israel; but that melancholy is soon to be diffused with the parade of celebrities expected for President Peres' 90th birthday.

The imagined confessions of a former soldier in Benjamin Netanyahu's mafia crew.

Barack Obama will avoid the Knesset while in Israel, instead speaking 'directly to the Israeli public.' But the public has its own worries, and the brand-new government is hardly prepared to give the U.S. president its full attention.

Limor Livnat, who recently urged artists to censor themselves, acts more like an army commissar than a culture minister.

Tragically, the issue of 'sharing the burden' – drafting ultra-Orthodox Jews into the army – is overshadowing the burden of the occupation.

Inequality was bad enough in Israel before we learned about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's special budget.

They call themselves friends of Israel, but a small group of powerful American Jews are making a mockery of democracy on Capitol Hill and our own hill.

After years of political hocus-pocus, Shas party leader Aryeh Deri and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can't seem to find the rabbit in the hat.

'Israeliness' needs an authentic representative whose character encompasses all its good traits; it needs the 'beautiful Israeli' - and beautiful he must be.

The higher she flew, the more Yacimovich suffered from vertigo: Old wisdom no longer counted, a new page in history was about to begin. She didn’t really care that ex-leaders of the party abandoned her.

The culture of lying in the Israeli army was around in Ben-Gurion's time. The Harpaz affair proves it still exists.

Barak doesn’t like to share and isn’t content unless he has it all.

Don't bother trying to find a suitable candidate to replace Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister. The position maketh the man

The Israeli right knows how to renew itself, while the left is either exhausted or attracted to illusions.

We have long experience with the consensus, and have already brought it sacrifices - settlements, Lebanon and superfluous wars, to name a few.

We don't want to learn from experience, we want to go crazy, and the pen-rattlers are urging the army to demonstrate its power. You have to work to attain respect, you have to shoot to attain national pride. How weak the strong can be.

If Rabbi Ovadia Yosef used to call me 'accursed,' that's a sign I made myself quite clear.

The prime minister is right. We really are afraid. Less of our enemies and more of him.

This column often asked Begin, Meridor and Eitan - what do you have in common with them? How long will you cooperate with that man, after revealing your opinion of him in the past? This week your colleagues replied instead of you. They tossed you out like an object they don't want anymore.