editorials
Passover 2008 will be remembered as the holiday when the Government of Israel decided that it would take no responsibility for the nutritional needs of its citizens
The ramifications of the worldwide crisis with the dollar are not limited to the business and export sector
Even those who cannot meet their mortgage payments have rights
The great advantage of a democratic system over other types of government is the ability to modify or change the government.
Gentlemen, the problem is not the ability of large families and people with limited income to pay 10 or 15 agorot [a few cents] more for each loaf of bread. The problem lies in another place altogether.
Not back to handouts to help the unemployed, but rather a Wisconsin [welfare-to-work] Program that brings them back to the workplace. Stopping the program is an anti-social welfare act.
Will closure of the Wisconsin (welfare-to-work - MeiHaleiv) Plan bring alternatives that are even worse?
The second vote passed. Both the money and the scandal passed to the Treasury.
Are we looking at the end of the MeiHaleiv [Welfare-to-Work] program? Would ending this experiment take participants back in time a year and a half, when they had to report to the Employment Bureau on a weekly or monthly basis?
Friday's protest parade should and must be the true symbol of social solidarity that is so lacking today between the various sectors of Israeli society
The hard questions, such as why he has not appointed a Minister of Welfare until now and why the government has not found time to prepare any succor for the dismal situation caused by the war we will leave to the state investigatory committee.
I have only one thing to say to officials of the Treasury and other government ministries: Try -- at least this time -- not to make your deals at the Northern residents' expense.
The Law School in Ramat Gan made the correct move when it appealed the decision by the State to privatize prisons.
The hunger strike has a negative effect on all sick people in the country
Let’s turn the financial and social needs of Israeli society into a National Issue
As a society we can be ashamed at the way we treat hundreds of thousands of unemployed people who only want to find a steady job with a decent salary which could get them out of poverty
It’s no longer a secret - in Israel there are over 1 million people living under the poverty line. 600,000 of them are children. In Israel 2004, a million people live bereft of basic dignity.
Food provision in schools will cancel the need for soup kitchens, and the lion’s share of the funding for this project will come from parents who are ready and willing to contribute.