MKs have fielded a second law aimed against Yair Lapid, a silly and opinionated journalist who has decided to run for a seat in the parliament. The new law will require aspiring politicians to disclose their sources of income as soon as they announce their decision to enter politics, even before they are registered for elections.

Clearly, the law is absurdly broad, and it also makes little sense because laundering political donations through a fund is a slam-dunk affair.

But even more absurd is that the Knesset is so weak intellectually that its members tremble at the prospect of competition from a sharp-tongued journalist.

The trade union monster is threatening a general strike over the government’s refusal to hire directly those employees who now work for the state through private contractors.

As everyone understands, outsourcing to private firms makes state operations cheaper and more efficient, but the trade union is bent on extracting benefits for its members at the expense of the general population.

An Arab robber at Nazareth-Illit post office shot a Jew who tried to stop him. The Jew, a father of six, had come to pick up his disability benefit check.