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Yediot Aharonot points to "the importance of the role of academics in the collective effort to achieve social equality and find the necessary balance between its various components." The author believes that "The proper way is to create a more educated society, as the preferred method of creating a more just and equal society. This year, 6,090 ultra-orthodox [students] are studying in the campuses and the academic programs that were adapted to their way of living, but that is insufficient. The goal is 27,000 ultra-orthodox students, in accordance to their proportion of the population."
The Jerusalem Post is worried by the rise of European extremist parties on both the far-Left and the far-Right, and believes they are “apparently exploiting the economic turmoil that has swept across the debt-ridden continent.” The editor emphasizes the similarity to civilian behavior in the wake of World War I, and points out that “Europeans’ support for extremist parties seems less about identification with their goals and values and more to do with punishing mainstream candidates for perceived mistakes.” The editor asserts that “even a throwaway vote for radicalism is liable to grant these extremists undeserved respectability and legitimacy,” and wonders: “Can it be that Europeans have so quickly forgotten the lessons of the recent past?”
Ma’ariv argues that "If the Israeli Left was really true to its values, then it must demand the disqualification of MK Hanin Zoabi’s status as a candidate for the Knesset," and adds: "Zoabi is an asset for racists, be they Jews or Arabs."
Haaretz discusses the High Court of Justice’s denial of the state’s request to reopen the hearing on demolishing the houses in Beit El’s Ulpana neighborhood, and declares that with this request, “Benjamin Netanyahu’s government wrote another bleak chapter in the history of Israeli democracy.”
Yisrael Hayom contends that "It is the obligation of any honest person – to begin a discussion regarding the military enlistment of the ultra-Orthodox with the question of the place of the Torah world in Israel society."
[Prof. Moshe Kaveh, Ben-Dror Yemini and Dror Eydar wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot, Ma’ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]