Yediot Aharonot claims that "One year and four months after the murder of the Fogel family, no step has been taken to create a deterrent effect. The murderers became superstars in the village of Awarta and hate for Jews strengthened considerably."
Ma\’ariv professes that "Heavy weapons, including missiles, are flowing throughout the Middle East to the Sinai peninsula, which obligates Israel to urgently recalibrate its security perspective towards Egypt."
Yisrael Hayom reminds us that "A well know saying concludes that \’All Israel are guarantors for one another.\’ In other words the people of Israel are one whole organic body comprised of the sum of all its parts. Accordingly, the wholeness of the body is necessarily dependent upon the functioning of each and every part. If that is so, in addition to contravening the law and harming Muslim sensitivities, one can view the actions of the various Price Tag leaders as a kind of injury to the wholeness of the Jewish body." The author notes that "Cemeteries and synagogues have long since become a target for Muslim extremists. It is a pity that our sensitivities are turned only inwards. All religious sites should be left out of the cycle of enmity."
Haaretz ridicules what it terms “Our benighted MKs”. After the shockwaves generated by the campaign of incitement and fear-mongering against African migrants has subsided, they have found a new target: the gay and lesbian community. The editor asserts that bigotry expressed by public figures should not be tolerated, even though “such remarks say more about their speakers\’ benighted world than they do about the gay and lesbian world,” and concludes: “no enlightened society can allow such remarks to pass quietly.”
The Jerusalem Post ponders the problem of safeguarding Jewish continuity in the Diaspora and contends that “Only the State of Israel can sustain the Jewish people into the 21st century.” The editor believes, however, that the Orthodox community – particularly the haredim – who “have emerged as the engine of Jewish population growth, not just in Israel but also in the Diaspora,” are an exception, and declares that “Orthodoxy’s success in fostering Jewish continuity in the Diaspora is undeniable.”
[Ayelet Shaked and Elichai Ben Yishai, Dr. Yehuda Belinga and Lior Alfrovitz wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot, Ma\’ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]