HAARETZ 1. PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY: DECISION TO RELEASE PRISONERS NOT ENOUGH. Government approved on second vote: Ministerial committee to set release of 350-400 prisoners in keeping with Palestinians steps. Hamas: We will not observe ceasefire if our prisoners are not released; Dahlan asks to explain PA position to committee.
2. DESPITE CEASEFIRE: HAMAS CONTINUES TO MANUFACTURE KASSAM ROCKETS. 3. Politics: Shinui to contest elections in more than 60 local authorities, including Migdal Haemek. SHINUI LOOKING FOR FOOTHOLD IN DEVELOPMENT TOWNS. 4. ISRAELI ANDY RAM AND HIS PARTNER LOSE IN WIMBLEDON FINALS. HATZOFEH 1. Palestinian Authority: If all prisoners are not released, we will quit ceasefire agreement. SHARON WAS FORCED. Government decision to establish ministerial committee to set prisoner releases was approved only on second vote, after Minister Lapid convinced Minister Motti Zandberg to change his vote. Minister Lieberman: As Minister of Transportation, I am prepared to provide buses to take prisoners to the sea and drown them there. Dahlan to Mofaz: We demand that all terrorists be released. Additional easings: 3,000 Palestinians to be allowed to enter from Bethlehem area. 2. MOFAZ: DECLINE IN NUMBER OF WARNINGS AND QUANTITY OF INCITEMENT. 3. SECURITY REPORT: COOPERATION BETWEEN COMMANDER OF PALESTINIAN FORCES IN GAZA STRIP AND HAMAS. 4. STATE ALLOCATES NIS 20 MILLION TO THOSE HURT BY ECONOMIC PLAN. MAARIV 1. HAMAS HAS STEPPED UP PRODUCTION OF KASSAM ROCKETS. IDF: Terrorists exploiting ceasefire in order to arm. But: Drop in number of warnings and in incitement. Government approves release of 355 administrative detainees. Hamas: If our prisoners are not released we will halt hudna. 2. OUR SALARY HAS NOSEDIVED BY NIS 752. Within one year, average Israeli salary dropped by 10% and reached NIS 7001 per month. 3. LOCAL HERO. Even though Andy Ram lost Wimbledon mixed doubles final, his achievement will be remembered for a long time. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. 1/3 of Israelis over banks credit limits. BANK OF ISRAEL: STOP OVERDRAFT CELEBRATIONS. Bank customers, who have become used to deviate from maximum permitted overdraft by thousands of shekels, are likely to discover that faucet has been closed due to tightened supervision. 2. HAMAS EXPLOITING HUDNA TO ORGANIZE ATTACKS. IDF satisfied by implementation of ceasefire but warns: Abu Mazen must quickly decide about Hamas. Under US pressure: Israel considering changing fence outlines. 3. WE SERVED IN ANTI-AIRCRAFT UNIT AND GOT CANCER. Five soldiers served together in north: We warned about dangerous radiation from radar unit, and army ignored us. IDF: Link between radar and disease unproven. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot notes that Prime Minister Sharon was obliged to force a second vote at yesterdays Cabinet meeting in order to secure approval for a qualified release of Palestinian prisoners and says that, The vote, which almost ended in an international disgrace, shows that Sharon lacks neither sensitivity or responsibility, but fully responsible coalition partners. Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, says that, Even though trust between Israelis and Palestinians is still in its infancy, many businesses are already getting rid of security guards, and observes that, The same frivolity, which led to delays in stationing security guards until after hundreds of Israelis had been killed, is leading to their dismissals today. Hatzofeh analyzes the American war against terror in Iraq and asserts that, The elimination of terror regimes is a condition for weakening the international terror that is liable to become stronger if the Americans show weakness in Iraq and in its readiness to strike at Iran, Syria, Libya and the dollar-rich Saudi emirs. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, avers that corruption is rife in the Likud and is not surprised that only 9% of respondents in a recent poll were optimistic that such phenomena will disappear.
