Yuli Tamir

Former president, who thought he could evade the public eye, will be forced to say his piece.

Robert Kagan's new book illuminates the current power relations between the United States and Europe: The former favors force and the latter, negotiation. What can Israel learn from this new world order?

Robert Kagan's new book illuminates the current power relations between the United States and Europe: The former favors force and the latter, negotiation. What can Israel learn from this new world order?

Democracy and its Convolutions: Paradoxes in Modern Democracy [published in Hebrew as Democratia Venaftuleha: Paradoxim Bedemocratia Hamodernit], Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, Broadcast University, Army Radio, Ministry of Defense Publications, 114 pages, NIS 42

One-third of the students are under the poverty line. They need additional support − personal, educational and nutritional.

The state has the money to finance parents' school fees, but it choses to direct it not to educational goals, but rather to making things better for the upper deciles.

If the proposed legislation "Distributing the State's Shares of Bank Leumi to the Public, 2005" is approved by the Knesset Finance Committee tomorrow, the citizens of Israel will find themselves naked and exposed to an intrusive and unbridled government.

Next time Netanyahu stands before the blackboard with a felt pen in his hand, and with great confidence draws the future, it would be a very good idea to have a small child (or a courageous economist) around to cry out that even if the king is not entirely naked, his handling of the facts requires watching every word that comes out of his mouth like a hawk.