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Yediot Aharonot refers to the controversy over Migron: "The small communities cropping up on every hilltop cost the state in capital, infrastructures and security measures. A proper right-wing government needs to formulate a policy in keeping with its outlook: Construction in the larger communities yes, construction in the smaller communities no. There is no need. Oslo is dead. The Bar-Ilan speech is dead. The whole world knows that. Now it is possible to stop winking and start investing in what is right."
Ma\’ariv believes that operations such as the Six Day War and the Entebbe Raid have led Israelis to become enamored of "astoundingly successful, inspiring and effective operations," despite events such as the Yom Kippur War, the Lebanese quagmire and the failure to rescue Nahshon Wachsman and Gilad Shalit by military action. The author notes that events such as the Six Day War and the Entebbe Raid were – inter alia – the product of total surprise and says that in regard to Iran "One thing is clear – there will be no surprise. If the intention was to surprise, Israel should have taken the opposite tactic: Lulling them to sleep and then a military move."
Yisrael Hayom, at the start of the 2012-2013 school year, suggests: "Perhaps the great and important effort to bring everyone to the same threshold has exhausted itself, and the single index regarding eligibility for matriculation no longer serves the system as optimally as possible. Maybe it would be worthwhile to distinguish between three kinds of matriculation certificate: Vocational, academic and scientific." The author calls on education professionals to work out the details.
The Jerusalem Post discusses the legacy of astronaut Neil Armstrong, and states that “Armstrong’s act was a reminder of what humans are capable when their potential is realized and they work together for a noble cause.” The editor comments on the dichotomy of “man’s ability to use knowledge and technology to achieve unbelievable accomplishments while at the same time realizing that we really still don’t know very much about anything,” and adds that this “may be the ultimate lesson that Armstrong leaves us with. That, and the need to dream.”
Haaretz praises two owners of an iconic ice cream parlor, which they opened in the Tel Aviv Port in 1960, for standing up to eviction attempts of the Atarim company that had received a mandate from the municipality to ‘modernize’ the entire area. The editor believes that the victory is worthy of attention, and asserts: “Given the often aggressive attempts by the authorities to wipe out any symbols of the past, due to an assumption that people of a certain age are meant to stop working and clear out so they can be replaced by new, updated forces – the determination of the two to preserve their life\’s work, in its original location and form,is welcome and worthy of note.”[Nahum Barnea, Rubik Rosenthal and Eli Hurvitz wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot, Ma\’ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]