​The Jerusalem Post comments on the high number of Israeli women subjected to sexual harassment, assault and rape?, and notes: “While an authoritative answer awaits scientific investigation, it is no secret that there is a growing sense that sexual assault is becoming endemic in Israel and is perpetrated most visibly by men in positions of power – whether in politics, the military or the rabbinate.”

Haaretz is concerned that the law permitting civil burial, which was passed twenty years ago, is still far from being fully implemented, and states: “By its very nature, burial free of religious aspects cannot function under the auspices of people and organizations not committed to these principles. The government must fully respect the desire of people to be free of the services of the Orthodox establishment, both in life and in death.”

Yediot Aharonot discusses the lack of a Russian response to last week’s attack on the Hezbollah arms shipment in Syria, which some international sources have attributed to Israel,   and remarks that the attack, if indeed it was carried out by Israel, “allows it to test the limits of its understandings with the Russians.” The author adds: “The Russian response so far may create the impression that Russia acknowledges Israel’s right to prevent the spillover of a certain kind of weapon from Syrian to Lebanon,” and concludes: “Whether this situation will continue for long is uncertain.”

Israel Hayom points out that since Donald Trump’s win in the U.S. presidential election last month, Israelis – predominantly from the Left - have been engaged in a heated debate about how the victory of the billionaire businessman who gets into fights on Twitter will affect the Jewish state, and asserts: “The Left needs a brain transplant -- especially in regard to its utterly false presentation of the U.S. and the people who make up its rich and intricate fabric.”

[Alex Fishman and Ruthie Blum wrote today's articles in Yediot Aharonot and Israel Hayom, respectively.]