Ma’ariv recalls the pogrom that was perpetrated in the Romanian city of Iasi, 69 years ago yesterday, in which over 13,000 Jews were murdered.
Yisrael Hayom refers to the slated demolition of 22 houses in the Silwan neighborhood of Jerusalem in order to clear the way for an archeological park. "Who cares if this city burns? The Mayor, apparently, utterly does not. He behaves like a child who plays with matches near a puddle of gasoline."
The Jerusalem Post praises the Bank of Israel’s recommendation to expand Israel’s negative income tax experiment – basically, a simple apparatus that pays cash directly to the working poor originally developed by economist Milton Friedman five decades ago – and implement it nationwide. The editor feels that "as a Jewish state that promotes Jewish values, Israel must not lose touch with its obligation to care for those less fortunate. Implementing Friedman’s NIT is one way of achieving this goal while avoiding some of the pitfalls of socialism."
Haaretz discusses the compromise reached in the ruling of the High Court regarding the Immanuel school segregation affair, and states: "Coexistence in a polarized, multicultural society demands compromise, and agreements reached after substantive dialogue between the interested parties, through the shared understanding that the country’s laws apply to all."
[Eitan Haber, Chelo Rosenberg and Yehoshua Sobel wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot, Ma’ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]
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