When even common courtesy is condemned by political partisans, we are seeing the real threat to Israel’s future.
In his editorial comment in the Jerusalem Post on February 24th concerning the fact that after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was filmed shaking hands with and smiling at a Yesh Atid MK who returned to the Knesset after recovering from an auto accident, Bibi was excoriated in the social media by members of his coalition partners for being friendly to the “enemy”, Yaakov Katz, editor-in-chief of the newspaper, wrote “Have we lost our minds? Smiling is now a sin?”