Yediot Aharonot argues in favor of a deal with Hamas for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. "We always told ourselves that one Israeli soldier can be measured – in the righteousness of his battle, the strength of his spirit, the resourcefulness of his training, and the solidarity of the army that is with him – against hundreds of enemy soldiers."
Ma’ariv opposes the artists’ boycott of Ariel: "The boycott achieves the opposite effect. It turns Ariel into a consensus issue of who is unwilling to boycott it, and draws it toward the center instead of moving it further away." The author surmises that "The peace camp succeeded in winning citizens’ hearts for a short time, the peak of which was during the song for peace in the square and was broken in the shots that followed. Since then it has given up on winning hearts. The artists’ boycott is another way-station in this retreat."
Yisrael Hayom professes that "Today, Obama is asking Israel to play on his team, according to his own game plan. But it would seem that this is a president that during the game’s second half will be more pragmatic, more in tune with Israel, not only in advancing the peace process, but in regarding its national security as well."
The Jerusalem Post discusses the fact that, in Israel, "privatization can actually lead to higher costs, discourage competition, limit access and in effect impose unprecedented restrictions." To prove this point, the editor highlights the case of the Israel Postal Company (IPC), which replaced the state postal authority, and has introduced a minimum NIS 38 “service fee” to be paid upon the receipt of any package from abroad. The editor notes that since basic postal services cannot be easily opened to outright competition, consumers can effectively be held hostage. He calls on the government to "Send back the unfair postal package levy" and to act to prevent the IPS from holding the public to ransom.
Haaretz calls the verdict in the case of MK Tzachi Hanegbi "a step in the right direction." Despite the eight years that have passed since giving false testimony to the chairman of the central election committee, the infraction of which he was convicted, the editor feels that the judges acted prudently and set a "necessary normative standard whose gist is that upholding the value of truth is a precondition to the prosecution of justice," and adds: "The message sent by this verdict is an expectation of clean government and the rule of truth in government."
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