"A country that every morning sends 17 inspectors to oversee the almost 14 thousand construction sites, and they take the bus. A country that is in a frenzy of building more and more apartments and parking lot and roads and interchanges on the backs of Arabs and Chinese. One inspector per 800 construction sites is a murder weapon.”
--Radio 103FM talk show host, Gabi Gazit, reacts to the killing and injuring of laborers, most assumed to be Arab or foreigners, in a massive collapse at a construction site for a parking complex.*

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Seth Klarman, the American billionaire who cofounded The Times of Israel news website, has given more than $1.5 million to CAMERA, a right-wing media watchdog that attacks reports critical of Israel.** 

*The (parking complex) disaster is premeditated murder (Gabi Gazit, 103FM/Maariv) The State of Israel executed people who came to build it. It knew that would happen and did nothing to prevent it. People were murdered by corrupt politicians and no one will go to jail… Everything was prepared for this. There was a firing squad. There was a killing pit. There was an incited mob shouting, ‘It’s good that Arabs died there, because, as we know, a good Arab is an Arab lying under a pile of Jews’ dust. The State of Israel has killed these people, which so far have no name, no face and no identity, just as cannon fodder for the glory of the functionaries. A country that every morning sends 17 inspectors to oversee the almost 14 thousand construction sites, and they take the bus. A country that is in a frenzy of building more and more apartments and parking lot and roads and interchanges on the backs of Arabs and Chinese. One inspector per 800 construction sites is a murder weapon. 
There's Been Debate but It's Settled. Israel's PM Cares Only for His Political Survival (Uzi Baram, Haaretz+) Netanyahu doesn’t really care if work takes place on Shabbat or not, or whether migrant children study or are abandoned, or whether anyone studies English, math or science. 
The labor was Arab, the oversight was Jewish: Bad Israeli culture brought the disaster in Ramat Hahayal (Ben Caspit, Maariv) The workers may be Arabs or Chinese, but the oversight that brought down the parking complex is Israeli, a kosher Mehadrin Jew: the oversight of negligence, of lack of professionalism, of contempt and of greed and of the culture of doing things carelessly. All this is under the auspices of the state: the state provided few inspectors, who received minimum wage and don’t even get reimbursement for expenses that would allow them to travel between 13 thousand construction sites across the country. They need to take the bus. And when they arrive, what they can do? Nothing and nothing. 230 deaths in the past five years, generating 11 indictments. Almost always an ambulance comes, takes away the body, someone sweeps up after it, cleans the blood stains, if any, and moves on. This culture (of carelessness) is common in many other fields. Road safety is a great example. What is happening in the field of heavy-duty trucks is the same. Look at the number of inspectors at construction sites and compare it with the number of traffic policemen. Exactly the same phenomenon. No budget, no manpower, it does not interest anyone. The bodies are piling up, and everything goes on as usual. In a few days the dust will settle over the parking complex at Ramat Hahayal. The debris will be removed. Assuming that the dead came from Ramallah or Wadi Ara (Arab Israeli area) or the Ukraine, they won’t make the newspaper’s weekend supplement. And then, you ask? Then everything will continue as normal. 
Burying NIS 600 million in the ground (Alex Fishman, Yedioth/Ynet) The Israeli government is set to invest hundreds of millions in the initial phase of establishing a Gaza tunnel blockade. The problem is that there's no money allocated for the rest of the blockade; if the West Bank border fence is any indication, there never will be. 
Has America Closed the Gates of Justice for Victims of Palestinian Terror? (Seth Lipsky, Haaretz+) With the quashing of the Sokolow case, we could now be at the end of a decades long strategy of using American civil law to hold accountable terrorists who kill Americans abroad.
We’re going to miss Obama: the president is good for Israel because he is good for America first (Uri Savir, Maariv) Obama is the kind of friend we need: not a president who will say ‘amen’ to every extremist whim of the Israeli government, but one that leads towards processes for the sake of the country's democratic identity. 
Israel's Other Magician: Yair Lapid (Iris Leal, Haaretz+) Lapid’s message is clear and terrifying: A politician who wants a reasonable chance at becoming prime minister must be an empty screen onto which anyone can project their own wishes.
Playing the blame game (Nahum Barnea, Yedioth/Ynet) The question we should all be asking is not how the current train work crisis will be solved, but what the next battleground between the different factions in Israeli society will be and when—if ever—will it end. 
Blame the West for ISIS? Yes - but Go Back to 1925 (Maya Wahrman, Haaretz+) In 2016, ISIS is asking Iraqis the same question (though brutally and violently) as the West’s bureaucrats did in 1925: Who belongs and who does not?