Yediot Aharonot discusses the Plasner Committee proposal whereby ultra-orthodox men would be drafted into the army from the age of 22-23. The author claims that this would mean that "Most will be married and fathers by then. Integration into the army will be limited, and the cost to the country will be high: NIS 5,000 a month per recruit." The paper notes that "Regular soldiers would also be happy, between the ages of 18 to 23, to occupy themselves with making babies, or at least intensive training in preparation, but what can you do – they\’re in the army."
Yisrael Hayom says, "The Iranian nuclear effort is intended to advance Tehran\’s 1,400 year-old historic aspiration: Control of the Persian Gulf as the first stage of regional and world hegemony. A nuclear Iran would be an immediate and clear threat to pro-American regimes in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states and would lead to a slippery regional and global economic and security slope that would threaten the world\’s sanity and fatally harm the security of the United States and its economy. Israel would be a target for Iran\’s nuclear capabilities, but not a first target."
Haaretz writes: "White Night is a Tel Aviv initiative that features a large number of cultural events that take place throughout the night. Last weekend\’s violence, which was the result, among other things, of a total refusal by Mayor Ron Huldai to allow the protest tents to return to Rothschild Boulevard, brought in its wake a wave of cancellations by those due to participate in the events. The feeling of festivity and the consensus that has previously existed around White Night have been dealt a blow."
The Jerusalem Post comments: "The attempts to revive the moribund social protests by any means led to inevitable clashes with the law in Tel Aviv last Friday and Saturday. The social protest ringleaders exposed their motives and thereby alienated Mr. and Ms. Average Israeli. Whether future protests are fueled by zealous anarchists or a more garden variety of socialists, they will be grasped as left wing and outside the consensus. Nobody wishes to become a useful fool in the service of narrow political interests. Nobody wants to feel used."
Ma\’ariv maintains that "When the foreign minister threatens MK Talab El-Sana that \’When I run the government, I\’ll deal with you first\’, it is clear his future list of those to be \’dealt with\’ does not end there."