HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

HA’ARETZ 1. IDF TO TRANSFER NORTHERN SAMARIA TO PA. Israel inclined to accept compromise on operation of crossing into Gaza Strip. 2. PALESTINIAN KILLED IN ATTEMPTED MASS BREAK-IN TO NEVEH DEKALIM. 3. Ha’aretz check. FIVE PALESTINIANS SHOT AND KILLED IN TULKARM WERE UNARMED. 4. NETANYAHU’S HQ UNDER PRESSURE: NO LONGER WANTS TO OUST SHARON. HATZOFEH 1. Kassam rockets fired at Negev – no injuries, no damage. PALESTINIANS: ONE KILLED IN ATTREMPTED BREAK-IN TO NEVEH DEKALIM. Dozens of Palestinian youths broke through Gush Katif fences – IDF tank shot towards them in order to prevent their entry. Israeli citizen wounded by grenade thrown at him in Rafiah. 2. SENIOR PALESTINIAN OFFICIAL: ISRAEL HAS NOT ASKED US TO MAINTAIN SYNAGOGUES. High Court of Justice: Government must check if PA is ready to maintain Gush Katif synagogues. 3. SENIOR PALESTINIAN OFFICIAL: AGREEMENT ACHIEVED ON INTEGRATING FUGITIVE TERRORISTS INTO SECURITY SERVICES. 4. FOUR TERRORISTS KILLED IN GAZA EXPLOSION. 5. NETANYAHU’S ZIGZAG: NO INTENTION OF OUSTING SHARON NOW. Polls which showed reduction of gap between him and Sharon frightened Netanyahu and he hastened to declare: Sharon to remain as Prime Minister even if I am elected Likud chairman. 6. NEW GUSH KATIF: SETTLERS WANT TZE’ELIM AREA, YESHA COUNCIL PRESSING FOR HEBRON HILLS AREA. 7. DEPRESSION AND FEELINGS OF LOSS OF ABILITY TO WORK AMONG APPROXIMATELY 2,000 GUSH KATIF EVACUEES AND EVACUATERS. MA’ARIV 1. US AMBASSADOR’S CRITICISM OF HIS COUNTRY. Ambassador Kurtzer in Ma’ariv interview: “Difficult to understand delay in our response to New Orleans disaster.” 2. KASSAMS NEAR EVACUEE ENCAMPMENT. Palestinians climbed fence, IDF shot, and Kassams returned. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Hundreds of Palestinian youths broke into Gush Katif. Senior IDF officers: “LEAVE GAZA IMMEDIATELY.” Officers warn: Each additional day IDF is in Gaza Strip increases danger of conflagration. Yesterday: Palestinians cut fence at Neveh Dekalim, tried to climb on tank and were shot at, one killed. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot discusses the controversy over the post-Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in the US. Hatzofeh dismisses Education Minister Limor Livnat’s recent remarks about the need to build in the greater Jerusalem area regardless of Washington’s wishes as ill-disguised lip-service. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, reminds its readers that bulldozers in Gush Katif needed only a very short time to demolish what it took many years to build and notes the possible application of this precedent elsewhere. BPI-info