The big news seems to be that Barak is re-entering the political game and making a bid for the Labour party leadership. Despite the recent announcement it looks like old news. Barak went to far when he was Prime Minister and it's doubtful if anyone will have forgotten that.

In more interesting news, the Cabinet Secretariat released their notes on Sunday's Cabinet meeting. An interesting it does not have further information. It seems the Cabinet discussed and rejected an appeal against the Ministerial Committee on Legislation and Law Enforcement’s decision that
approved various provisions of the 2006 Beverage Container Recycling Law. The interesting thing is that the objection came from the Environmental Protection Minister Gideon Ezra. So... what's all this about bottles then? It seems that last year Israel passed a law that extended the range of products the government was offering a recycling rebate on. HaAretz reported last year that 1.5L bottles were includes for the first time. So what was the object? Given the source it's unlikely to be a proposed budget cut to reduce recycling!

Israel increasing it's recycling and beingcomign a greener place is FAR more interesting news than Barak's re-enterence to politics. I just wish we knew what the objections were about...