The Jerusalem Post examines Israel’s housing crisis and the failure since 2008 of consecutive governments at the prosaic challenge “of keeping the pace of housing construction in line with the natural growth rate,” and states that the reason for this is “that the state’s housing policy lacks an overarching guiding hand.” The editor is hopeful that the country’s politicians will “muster the will and navigate the way out of the housing crisis,” and adds: “Ahead of the election on March 17, Israelis should help them by insisting that the next government solve this crisis or face the wrath of the voters next time around.”

Haaretz accuses Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein of blatantly interfering in the current election campaign on behalf of PM Netanyahu and states that by continuing to act as Netanyahu’s defense attorney he is “obscuring the line between attorney general and political associate.” The editor opines: “Yehuda Weinstein has erred in postponing a corruption investigation until after the vote; if more than a few months remained before appointing a new attorney general, this conduct would be enough to justify removing him from office.”

Yediot Aharonot is concerned with the affect of PM Netanyahu’s speech on Israel-US relations, and states: “Administration officials are already working on a plan for the day after Netanyahu's speech: Which sections will be cut from the aid to Israel and which requests arriving from Israel will be met with foot-dragging.” The author points out: “Obama has two years left in the White House, and as far as he is concerned, his relationship with Netanyahu is over,” and concludes: “Now it's not just a credibility crisis, it's the end of the road.”

Yisrael Hayom comments on the Syrian civil war and notes that “Population shifts resulting from Syria's four-year long civil war have profoundly changed Syria ‎and its three Arabic-speaking neighbors: Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan.”  The editor contends that “Iraq and Syria are devolving into their constituent religious and ethnic parts, Lebanon is ‎becoming more Sunni, and Jordan less Palestinian,” and  states: “However gruesome the human cost of the ‎Syrian civil war, its long-term impact potentially renders the Middle East a less combustible ‎place, one less likely to trigger World War III.‎"

Globes op-ed was not available today.