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Summary of Editorials from the Hebrew
Press
(Israel
Government Press Office)
Ma'ariv asserts that "In order to stop the tailspin into
which we have become caught, a double process is needed – amending
the political party financing law on the one hand and changing the
procedures for investigating politicians on the other."
Regarding the former, the editors advocate increasing both the amount of
public financing and the size of permitted contributions. As to the
latter, the paper supports changing the system in order "to prevent a
situation in which anyone who wants to harass a prime minister can bring
about the opening of a criminal investigation and system
paralysis". But the editors declare that "Any reforms must
be postponed until after the conclusion of the Olmert affair so that they are
not seen as an attempt to save his skin. Afterwards, we must act".
Yediot Aharonot refers to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and suggests
that "In the current public situation, he has no chance of continuing
in office as Prime Minister". The editors surmise that "The
elections train has already left the station and all that remains to be
done now is fix the date", and add that "Today's working
assumption is November 2008 or early 2009". The paper cites the
old adage that "If we don't hang together, we'll hang
separately", and declare that "Today, this applies to both Kadima
and Labor."
Haaretz calls on the government not to accept the proposal to
change makeup of the high court judicial selection committee, aims to
change a long-standing tradition, as its only motivating factor is to harm
the authority of the Supreme Court and to aggrandize the politicians' clout
in selecting justices for the bench.
The
Jerusalem Post discusses the situation of higher
education in Israel in
view of the universities threat not to open for the next academic year
unless the reform plan proposed by Israel's Committee for
Examining the Higher Education System, better known as the Shochat
Committee, is implemented. The editor calls on the government to supply the
universities with the means to nurture excellence, and halt the
shortsighted squandering of Israel's
brainpower, the country's unique asset and only natural resource.
[Eitan Haber and Gadi Taub wrote
today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot and Ma'ariv, respectively.]
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