The Jerusalem Post  is concerned by extremist rhetoric in the political sphere, and asserts: “Extremist rhetoric helps create an environment of incitement, which encourages susceptible individuals to engage in hateful, immoral and violent acts.”

Haaretz comments on the crisis of leadership in the Israel Police following the series of offenses committed by senior officers, and asserts that the current commissioner “has failed the basic test of every system that relies on deference to orders and laws: the enforcement of discipline and ethics.” The editor believes that the next commissioner “must strengthen the public’s faith in the disgraced organization,” and adds: “The police need to be shaken up, but they must not slacken their efforts to root out the rot in the public service and the people who make their living from it.”

Yediot Aharonot calls on the media to leave the prime minister’s wife out of the current election campaign, and asserts: “some proportionality is needed. People have a right to privacy, and a couple has a right to keep its private skeletons in the closet.” The author opines: “The argument with Netanyahu is about his diplomatic and political ways, not about his family ways,” and declares: “The prime minister's problems don't stem from his family; his advantages and disadvantages stem from one thing only – his character.” 

Yisrael Hayom believes that “Yediot Aharonot and its senior correspondents have cast their lot with U.S. President Barack Obama, hoping his administration will capitulate and let Iran be a nuclear threshold state,” and states: “America's national interests often take precedence over the special relationship with Israel. Now it is Netanyahu's turn to put his country first. He has to step up to the plate and safeguard his nation because of America's lackluster leadership.”

Globes points out three reasons behind the delay in connecting Israeli industry to natural gas energy sources, despite it being a national priority: endless disputes between regulators seeking to shrug off responsibility, frequent regulatory changes that drive the market crazy, and a basic lack of understanding of the constraints within which industrialists operate.” The author believes that the State should have taken on itself the connection and conversion expense and should also have simplified regulation. Instead, the author notes, “problems are solved by the fire-fighting method, and at a desperately slow pace,” and concludes: “If it takes years to connect a few factories to natural gas, one can only guess how long it will take to build a light rail system in Tel Aviv.”