Ma’ariv refers to Chelsea Clinton’s recent wedding to the Jewish Marc Mezvinsky and says that "On the one hand, Judaism in America has become a fashionable and non-threatening religion. On the other hand, there is genuine concern over its accelerated disappearance through inter-marriage."
Yisrael Hayom discusses fate of the Jordan Valley in the peace negotiations with the Palestinians and asserts that "Only full Israeli sovereignty over the entire Jordan Valley, as a security zone resting on the Jordan River as a border, would afford us security in a peace agreement." The author reminds his readers that, "Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in his last Knesset speech, which he gave in October 1995, said that in any peace agreement, Israel had to keep the Jordan Valley ‘in the broadest sense of the term," and calls on the Government to invest in the Jordan Valley upon the expiry of the temporary suspension of construction in Judea and Samaria.
The Jerusalem Post discusses Hamas’ violent reaction to the Arab League’s decision to permit the Palestinian Authority to enter direct negotiations with Israel, and notes that "Hamas’s renewal of rocket attacks against Israeli civilians in the South is an attempt to snuff out any faint new chance of progress toward a peaceful settlement to the conflict, and instead to advance the option of armed struggle."
Haaretz discusses the role of centralization in the Israeli economy, which is dominated by about 20 financial groups, and states that "Centralization harms competition, development, growth and the public welfare. It also leads to high prices and mediocre service in the absence of competition."