The headlines read: “Government doubles teacher salaries and halves classroom pupil numbers”; “Innovative medical campus in the South provides home-grown doctors for two brand new hospitals in Israel's periphery”; “Groundbreaking R&D center in Kiryat Shmona attracts tens of thousands of Israelis back home from abroad”; “Sixty thousand haredim recruit to the army and 20,000 more enter the workplace, as new government gifts haredi schools with core curriculum”; and “Peace talks begin on historic