HAARETZ 1. CROSSINGS AGREEMENT: CONVOYS FROM GAZA TO WEST BANK IN ANOTHER MONTH. 2. SHARON MAINTAINING LARGE GAP OVER NETANYAHU IN LIKUD CONTEST: 51% – 32%. Political developments: Labor likely to quit Government by Monday. Sharon to hold round of talks to determine election date. Peretz interested in March elections. Increasing assessment in Likud: Sharon wont quit. 3. Omri Sharon convicted. ACCELERATED PROCEDURES TO APPROVE LAW THAT WILL ENABLE OMRI SHARON TO SEEK SENTENCE REDUCTION. 4. CAPT. R ACCUSED OF CONFIRMING THE KILL ON PALESTINIAN GIRL ACQUITTED. 5. CAMERAS REVEALED: [LIKUD MK YEHIEL] HAZAN TAKING ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE. (
). HATZOFEH 1. Orlev and Peretz agree to postpone vote on law to dissolve Knesset until next Monday. LABOR MINISTERS TO BREAK UP GOVERNMENT NEXT WEEK. Meeting tomorrow between Amir Peretz and Sharon will be decisive. If there is no agreement on election date, Peretz will hand Sharon Labor ministers letters of resignation. Decided at fmeeting: Break up Government immediately after next weeks Central Committee meeting. 2. OMRI SHARON ADMITS TO ALL CHARGES AGAINST HIM AND IS CONVICTED. Sentencing hearing in trial of PMs son to be held next week. Violation of trust erased from indictment. Prosecution demanding jail time. 3. MK HAZAN CAUGHT ATTEMPTING TO INTERFERE WITH EVIDENCE IN DOUBLE-VOTING AFFAIR. Hazan filmed by Knesset cameras as he took old voting equipment, which was in use at time of affair, from Knesset storeroom. Claims: Smear campaign against me. 4. ISRAEL CONCEDED MOST SECURITY DEMANDS AT CROSSINGS. National capitulation to Americans: Israel conceded security presence at Rafiah crossing. 5. AFTER MONTHS OF ACCUSATIONS: OFFICER SUSPECTED OF CONFIRMING KILL OF PALESTINIAN GIRL ACQUITTED. 6. CPI RISES BY 0.8%. MAARIV 1. Knesset scandal: MK Hazan again caught red-handed. EMBARRASSING. Hidden camera documented Likud MK Hazan taking evidence linked to his trial. Denied yesterday: I didnt take it. But several hours later, he changed his story and returned the evidence. MK Omri Sharon also in trouble: State demanding jail time. 2. SENIOR LABOR OFFICIALS TO PERETZ: WE ARE SICK OF PERES. Minister Ben-Eliezer: He needs to retire honorably now. 3. INNOCENT: CAPT. R. EXPECTS AN APOLOGY. Judges: Military Police influenced by media. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. HUNDREDS OF PALESTINIANS TO PASS VIA ASHKELON AND KIRYAT GAT. As of next month: Palestinians to travel between Gaza and West Bank under police guard. In nine days: First Palestinian border crossing without Israeli control. Before agreement: Walls shook from Condoleezas shouting. 2. EN ROUTE TO PRISON? After criminal conviction: Omri Sharon to try to persuade judge to be satisfied with community service. 3. DISRUPTED INVESTIGATION? MK Hazan denied taking voting equipment from Knesset until it became clear that he had been filmed. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Hatzofeh echoes the call of several religious Zionist rabbis and urges the various right-wing and religious Zionist political groupings to unite ahead of the upcoming elections. The editors also call for the formation of an authoritative rabbinical body to act in an advisory capacity. Yediot Ahronot refers to reports that Saudi Arabia has agreed to cancel its economic boycott of Israel as a condition for joining the WTO and Tunisias welcoming of a senior Israeli delegation at the current World Summit of the Information Society in Tunis. The editors believe that these are the fruits of both globalization and the Disengagement Plan. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, discusses the sale of the states controlling shares in Bank Leumi and regrets that the shares were not distributed among the adult residents of the State of Israel.
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