Finance Minister Ronnie Bar-On (Kadima) is partly to blame for panic by the public because he "pushed the public and long-term savings toward investments in the stock exchange which is operated without the proper control mechanisms," Gidon Eshet wrote in Yediot Acharonot,

Ma'ariv writer Yitzchak Bali asserted that the government's policy of retaliating to terrorist attacks from Gaza by closing crossings is "doomed to fail" because it is not a deterrence.