1. Fighting in the Gaza Strip: At least 24 killed in renewed outbreak of Fatah-Hamas clashes.
2. Race for the Presidency.
KADIMA ESTIMATES: CABINET RESHUFFLE WILL ADVANCE „PERES LAW”.
3. SPECIAL COORDINATOR APPOINTED BY PM TO ASSIST AMERICAN EFFORT TO BOYCOTT IRANIAN BANKS.
4. HALUTZ TO TESTIFY TODAY: IDF COORDINATED ITS MOVES WITH THE PRIME MINISTER.
This week: Winograd Committee will conclude its discussions and will write interim report; will hear series of key witnesses including Olmert and Kaplinsky.
HATZOFEH
1. Twenty-one Palestinians killed in Fatah-Hamas shooting incidents in the Gaza Strip.
CIVIL WAR IN THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY.
Among the killed – two-year-old baby. Gaza streets were empty yesterday.
2. „POSSIBLE THAT PERETZ WILL LEAVE DEFENSE MINISTRY THIS WEEK.”
3. TODAY: CHIEF-OF-STAFF TO TESTIFY BEFORE WINOGRAD COMMITTEE.
4. RIGHT AND LEFT IN KNESSET PREPARING TO BLOCK „PERES LAW.”
Today: Justice Minister Tzipi Livni to present Ministerial Legislation Committee with draft law to hold open vote for presidency. Meretz, Shas and Yisrael Beitenu opposed to initiative. Even inside Kadima, Minister Meir Shetrit has come out openly against the move.
5. TODAY: GOVERNMENT LIKELY TO APPROVE MAJDELE’S APPOINTMENT AS FIRST ARAB MINISTER.
6. WARNINGS OF ATTACKS BY HEZBOLLAH-DIRECTED NABLUS TERRORISTS.
MA’ARIV
1. Will appointment of Chief-of-Staff lead to new round of appointments in its wake?
CONCERN IN IDF: MAJOR-GENERALS WILL QUIT.
Deputy Chief-of-Staff Kaplinsky considering retiring despite pressure on him to stay. Candidates to replace him: Gantz, Naveh, Galant and Harel. Other major-generals likely to leave.
2. Anarchy in the Palestinian Authority.
BATTLES IN THE TERRITORIES: 24 KILLED.
New record in Fatah-Hamas riots. Poll: Palestinians convinced that this is war.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Expose: Palestinian Authority Chairman saved from assassination attempt.
DEATHTRAP FOR ABU MAZEN.
Four powerful bombs were planted last week along Abu Mazen’s route in Gaza. Palestinian Preventive security discovered them before convoy passed. Senior Fatah officials: This was Hamas’s doing.
2. Olmert’s deal to the parties:
SUPPORT PERES AND RECEIVE BETTER PORTFOLIOS.
Reshuffle expected to begin this week.
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot believe that the Knesset vote for President, the President of all Israeli citizens, should be transparent. The editors say that this would be the first step in rehabilitating the institution of the presidency.
Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, praises the United Nations for its decision denouncing denial of the Halocaust and adds that the UN has changed for the better since 1975, when it equated – with anti-Semitic overtones – Zionism with racism.
Hatzofeh points to the irony of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s remarks that President Moshe Katsav can no longer continue when the Prime Minister himself is facing serious allegations. The editors ask, „What will happen when Olmert is in the President’s shoes? Will he go home?”
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