We heard about him wanting to upgrade his and his wife flight seats, so they could be comfortable. Excesses! We heard about increase in food prices and gas prices - all the BASIC necessities that affect every citizen esp the lower and middle class. He said he will help his people in housing, so far, the mortgage interest has increased relentlessly. It's not hard to see Bibi is serving his interest as PM, not for his country nor his people. Sitting in his office, thinking what he can gain for himself while he is a PM, not how he can relieve the stress on his people.

Increase prices to encourage more public transport. Way too may cars on the roads causing more congestion, pollution and traffic deaths. Take away the car allowance to employees or at least charge an income benefit of 150% of benefit. Tiny Israel would be best served with expanded public transport grid.

Al you seem to forget that most of the cars on the roads are company cars, not private ones. Therefore the bulk of the drivers are not paying this addition - their companies are paying. Thus the private citizens pay as much too. The correct way to move people to public transportation are (1) actually have a good public transportation system (the Tel Aviv subway is more than 100 years in the planning) (2) start taxing the gas used by drivers of company cars the way that company cell phones are taxed. One option for this is to provide the first tank each month free of tax (say the first 300 NIS used) and then a tax on all additional fuel used. This can offset at the pump tax and still put money in the government coffers - best would be if this money was set to only be used to improve public transport and green energy projects. This will encourage behavior changes.

Trains are the answer but they take years to build the tracks. The train service to Karmiel was scheduled for 2016 according to PM Netanyahu and Transport Minister Katz. The huge signs proclaiming this have now been covered in black plastic. Why, "bones" have been found and the project is on hold. Again, Ultra-Orthodoxy rules. More busses? More traffic jams. The Government must reduce the tax on gas/petrol/benzine or whatever you want to call it. The price rise will cause huge economic hardship for the lower and middle income groups. Those who don't drive company cars will bear the load. Those who do couldn't care a damn! The Dictatorship in the Treasury wants an alternative. There is one: STOP GIVING MONEY TO THE HAREDIM to save your government , Bibi! You are responsible to ALL the people of Israel and not only to Shas.

Al, where do you come from. First provide viable and reliable public transport. I choose to live on one of the borders of the country that you may sleep well at night. Our gas prices relative to per capita income are one of the highest in the world. Be realistic!

population lives in the central plain. 1) Tax the Car allowance to employeees as a benefit wherein the employee has taxes taken from his salary and the employer can only claim 50% tax expense. . 2) Lay down a rapid transport grid between cities. From these stations local buss will suffice. 3) Encourage public transport thru a transfer ticket system. That is when you board a bus for the fisrt time you pay, and then you can go onto another bus with a transfer ticket. It would be good for 2 hour travel. 4) Those in the periphery should be able to claim gas costs on their income tax as a deduction. Proof of residency would be needed. Try the above...Get pople out of their cars, learn to breath and lower the passive aggressivness so evident in car usage. By the way, smoking, talking on cell phones, texting , and driving all at the same time is a killer.

FYI My two Canadian born sons are currently in Israel serving in the IDF protecting you as well. Just for your information. Before you want to piss on anyones parade know whom you are talking to. Humility goes a long way.,..try it!

So, Bibi, by fiat, can reverse the price of oil? What planet do you live on? The price is now over $!00.00 dollars a barrel and the last I looked, Israel produces none. So, if the almighty Bibi can reverse the price of oil, he must truly be almighty. And, you can pray all you want but the last time I checked, cars still run on oil, not prayer or wishful thinking.

Al, don't you think that the goverment first should provide public transport grid and then Implement this tax policy? Think , than write!

To Al and others: Going "green" is all well and good as long as you really do have a viable and competitive public transport system. We don't. The railways are an ugly monopoly that at the drop of the hat cuts off service to half the country for a week at a time- supposedly for "maintenance". That's because thrie Union is so strong that they refuse to work at night in order to allow the trains to continue working during the day. And this happens about one every 3 months! The bus service, another monopoly, has central collection points only at a few major cities, so you have to travel way out of your way to get to a place like Karmiel or Tzfat or Ramat Yishai - and that adds on 2 hours travel. YOU try working a 9 hour day and then travel home by bus like that. I believe the answer is to encourage hybrids and gas vehicles, by reducing tha taxes on these cars and their fuels - but ALL taxes - from import tax to VAT to fuel. That way more "green" cars will be bought and leased. Until then. they have to reduce taxes on fuel, otherwise the lower and middle classes will collapse under the burden. 2 years ago you could get by with weekly shopping of 500 NIS. Today it's 750NIS - in 2 years! That's not talking about other stuff. And salaries didn't go up, of course. The treasury thinks it can do whatever it likes and we will keep shtum. They saw it as an easy way to balance the budget instead of looking to take taxes from those that CAN pay - the execs and the rich, the stock market speculators and all those Israelis who work "overseas" for foreign registered Israeli companies, and get paid there, and then transfer it back. This is the last straw - a healthy society needs a big middle class, and what the government has done over time, by taxing leased cars, taxing fuel, raising the price of electricity and water, raising NHL taxes to finance religious families' dental care ( because they don't work to be able to pay for it - but WE do), is whittle away at the middle class which has shrunk considerably over the last decade. Time to wake up and think again.