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Editorial: For a better year
As Jews around the world go tonight to pray Kol Nidre, they and their leaders will have plenty of hastily-made vows to reconsider, which is what that ancient prayer is about.
Repent, ye sinners
By CALEV BEN-DAVID
’Fools mock at sin"warns the Book of Proverbs. At no time of year is this truer for the Jewish people than on Yom Kippur, as we stand in judgment before the heavenly Gates of Repentance
Guilty as sin
By ELIAD SHRAGA
In 5764 the powerful’s partying became too visible to ignore
With aides like these
By HERB KEINON
Sharon’s close advisor and Israel’s top PR man is so eager to be a player on the international stage that he’s willing to give a kashrut certificate to a known anti-semite
The price of indecision
By HAIM RAMON
When the establishment finally adopted the separation-fence idea, it was too little, too late
Talk about farce
By BRET STEPHENS
’A little light in the darkness,"said Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey.
The assault on democracy
By CAROLINE GLICK
During his address at last month’s Likud Central Committee meeting, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said repeatedly that the Likud must accept its role as the ruling party and act with national responsibility.
Far from perfect
By YOAV LIMOR
The defense establishment’s year was remarkable in many ways, but also had its fair share of blunders
Between service and protectzia
By GUR SALOMON
Some struggle to volunteer, others to evade
The paradox of asymmetrical conflict
By AMI AYALON
While we are fighting a just war, we’re not taking enough care to make sure innocents aren’t getting hurt
Just let him go
By NACHMAN SHAI
Israel is keeping Vanunu in the limelight
For three corpses and a crook
By MATTHEW GUTMAN
Will we ever know why Israel entered into the most incomprehensible prisoner-exchange deal it ever struck?
On discrimination
By ELI YISHAI
Despite being recognized by the rabbis as Jews, the Interior Ministry refuse to allow the last remnant of Ethiopian Jewry, the Falash Mura, entry to their promised land
Local shame
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER
Too many are to blame for 20,000 municipal workers’ non-payment
Crossing the line
By DAN GERSTENFELD
Bank Hapoalim has only itself to blame for opening the line-fees’ Pandora’s box
Bank of hutzpa
By TAL MUSCAL
Bank of Israel governor, David Klein’s, plan to battle poverty wouldn’t sound so preposterous if the bank wasn’t the public sector’s leader in wage abuse
The end of privacy
By YAAKOV KATZ
The press, private eyes, ministers, police, lawyers, everyone’s listening on
Law and disorder
By SARAH HONIG
The difficult environment they’re working in is no excuse for the police’s glaring blunders and malicious actions
The party man
By LARRY DERFNER
Ze’ev Rozenstein has taken gangster-worship to new heights, so what if people keep getting blown up around him. Next stop the Knesset?
Rabbis running scared
By AVIAD HACOHEN
When we need a loud moral voice, our chief rabbis only whisper
On neo-fundamentalism
By ANSHEL PFEFFER
A year ago, Shinui seemed to have developed into a positive force in Israeli politics, since then they have supplied us with disappointment upon scandal.
A bad joke
By BRET STEPHENS
Question: What’s the difference between an Israeli lawyer and a Swiss lawyer?
Sergeant Pfeffer
By ANSHEL PFEFFER
The roadblock north of Jericho isn’t one of the largest or most well known in the West Bank.
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