It's become a religious-secular issue because the Left knee-jerks in opposite reaction to what the religious want. They think that if the religious want it, it MUST be bad. Too bad no one on the Left can think for themselves and see the clear benefits of extension for EVERYONE religious or non-religious.

Are these 90,000 the ones who stand to gain financially from this debate if they are successful? And why does this limit the amount of time that parents spend with there families? Can they only releate to their children when it is daylight? Is it better to send children to school in the daylight or to give them more playtime outside so that the parents don't have to deal with them until they absolutely have too? There are so many questions, just leave it alone and let it be as it is.

In our neighborhood the young kids all play outside in the park until it gets dark. They spend less time with their parents, not more, and they also wind up going to sleep later than they should.

Projection speak of 10-100 million NIS which is less than the average noise in the baseline and certainly lots less than the cost of any Histadrut sanctioned strike. The only issue is that it should be light out in the morning when children are heading out to school. Everything else is just fluff.

The greatest rabbis stand behind the demand to change the clocks. That ends the debate.

You think it doesn't make a difference whether the sun is setting when you come home from Tsaharon or not? That Dad comes home only when it's dark? So what if the children play in the park as long as there is daylight! I'll gladly fast one hour more (Seemingly!) in order to make the obvious possible for everyone. Anyway, let prayers begin one hour later and we solved the problem.

Children, especially younger children, need to get the correct amount of sleep. We have a 5 year old boy. It is difficult to get him into the process of bathing of sleeping when the sun is out. If the clocks were turned back, he would come home an hour early and get to bed on time. In addition, as discussed earlier, all children are out playing for that extra hour, taking time away from being home with their parents.

These are the actual issues: 1. Standard time doesn't change the length of the fast. The Yom Kippur argument is completely irrelevant. 2. After the switch hundreds of thousands of people drive home from work in the dark for 6 months - this is completely avoidable, wasteful and unpleasant. 3. The weather has nothing to do with it, only the number of daylight hours. 4. There are significant savings to the economy with DST but that isn't really the point anyway. Quality of life is the point. 5. To those who want to stay on Standard time all year round, well, do you want the sunrise at 4:30 am in the summer and darkness at 7pm? Who would benefit from that? Getting up in the morning all sweaty and going home in the dark? 6. We should adopt the March - November model. It works well for most of the northern hemisphere after all. Why do we have to be different?

By this time of year it is dark in both directions to work unless you work a short shift day. The 'economic savings' are theoretical and borderline significant (as opposed to different from average) statistically. Ain't no way a 100 million difference can be seen in our economy over the normal fluctuations due to weather and things like strikes. I do think that summer time is ending too early this year. It should be set on the solar calendar and not the lunar calendar, but this is what they call 'cucumber season' stuff here. Completely blown out of all reasonable proportions.