These are dark times for Israel. Eli Yishai, the minister of interior affairs, is gunning to deport foreign worker's children. more here http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3914130,00.html
a reality-tv show turned into a national scandal when one of its leading stars left his wife for a well known columnist who starred at the same show a while ago... well, its complicated, but that didn't stop everyone obsessing about it. yea, me too.