According to Tel Aviv municipality, it is working ‘to the best of our ability to help the population of refugees and infiltrators.’ Every day during the winter, those criminals will be receiving food, blankets, and warm clothes.

It never occurred to TA municipality to distribute blankets and warm clothes to needy Jewish families.

Our country sabotaged the new round of peace talks with Palestinian Arabs in Amman by refusing to even present them with a map outlining Israeli border demands. And what can Netanyahu do? He cannot agree to the same border adjustments as were offered by Olmert – or any border adjustments, for that matter, because of his coalition partners. At the same time, Palestinians cannot agree to anything less than they refused with Olmert.

And so we conduct peace talks for the eyes of Americans.

New case of sexual harassment allegations touched on Natan Eshel, Netanyahu’s very close advisor. He allegedly called a female staffer and sifted through her emails. This is hardly a crime, but shows us something more important: our prime minister, the person who must lead the nation in the war with Iran, cannot choose his own advisors wisely. Indeed, what kind of person is he who hires an advisor with a habit of harassing good-looking females?

The army is expected to prefer Italian to Korean suppliers in its touted billion-dollar purchase of training fighter jets.

Both Italy and South Korea are offering to buy Israeli military hardware in excess of the billion dollars, so the deal is mainly about choosing a future partner. And though our government leans toward the Italians, the Koreans are much more important to us.

First, the South Koreans have access to the best intelligence and information on the North Korean nuclear program. Unlike Italy, South Korea has a dynamic economy and a strong army. We should therefore work much more closely with the Koreans than the Italians.

An Arab from Kalkilya faces trial for imprisoning his own daughter. Since she turned 11, her father routinely clubbed her. She lived in a lavatory, leaving it only at night to clean the house.

The Knesset approved amendments which would allow single mothers who receive subsidies from the state to travel abroad four times a year for up to two months.

Previously, the law contained a commonsense provision that a person so poor as to apply for subsidies cannot be expected to travel abroad.