HA’ARETZ:1. FOUR NEW JUDGES SELECTED FOR HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
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2. HEAD OF LARGEST CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN JAFFA STABBED TO DEATH DURING CHRISTMAS PARADE
MA’ARIV
1. FOUR NEW JUDGES FOR HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
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2. NEXT WEEK IN GUATEMALA: [HOME FRONT DEFENSE MINISTER MATAN] VILNAI AND AHMADINEJAD
Both intend to travel to the country, one of the new members of the Security Council, for presidential inauguration.
3. JAFFA: MURDER IN THE MIDDLE OF A CHRISTMAS PARADE
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. EXPOSÈ: MILLION DOLLAR AGREEMENT
How much does it pay to testify against a former Prime Minister? (…).
2. YOUR HONORS
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YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Battle over free education from age of three „CANNOT CUT DEFENSE THIS YEAR.”
Netanyahu: „2012 is the year of defense and education; across-the-board 4% cut is necessary.” Yisrael Beteynu, Independence and Shas oppose. Liberman: Free education from age 1.5 for the children of parents who work and serve in the IDF. Today: Discussion in Cabinet; not clear if vote will be held.
2. FOUR JUDGES FOR THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, AND EVERYBODY IS CONTENT (…).
3. MYSTERY: MURDERER DRESSED AS SANTA CLAUS (…).
WALLA!
1. NIGERIAN PROMISE TO ISRAEL: WE WILL SUPPLY MORE OIL INSTEAD OF IRAN
2. [NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE] DAN SCHECHTER: PUNISH WHOEVER PREVENTS HIS CHILD FROM STUDYING CORE CURRICULUM
NANA10
1. IRAN DECLARES: BUSHEHR NUCLEAR FACILITY WILL BE FULLY OPERATIONAL IN THREE WEEKS
2. HAMAS: CYBERATTACK ON ISRAEL
– NEW FORM OF RESISTANCE
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:00.]
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot discusses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal for free pre-school education, to be funded by a 4% across-the-board cut in the budgets of Government ministries, except for defense, which several leading ministers have expressed doubts about. The author says that, „This scene, in which the Prime Minister announces to the media some campaign, without checking with his fellow ministers on its feasibility and on their willingness to participate in it first, and is then forced to postpone the vote, we have seen this before.” The author faults the Prime Minister’s aides for not doing their homework and suggests that the affair reflects on the Prime Minister’s management style.
Ma’ariv doubts that that installation of 300 new traffic cameras will be of any benefit in the war on road accidents. The author says that instead, „We must substantially increase the presence of traffic police on the highways,” and adds that, „we must also greatly increase sobriety tests. We must apprehend the really dangerous drivers (and not those who do 80-kilometers per hour on Jerusalem’s Begin Highway)
– those who run amok, zig-zag and run people over. And – of course – we must invest in infrastructures.”
Yisrael Hayom contends that, „one need not be a great expert to know that Israeli-Egyptian relations, as we knew them for the past 30 years, are over. The reassuring statements from US State Department spokespeople are getting lost in the deluge of aggressive statements by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, who see Israel as an enemy, not a partner.” However, the author adds that, „The leaders of the Egyptian Islamic parties are not detached from reality,” and avers that, „They understand very well that Egypt cannot live without the revival of industry in general and the tourist industry in particular. Without foreign investors it will be very difficult to feed 700,000 new mouths per annum. Neither is the American aid, some $1.5 billion, something that can be given up. Therefore, they say one thing to American diplomats and one thing to their voters. They speak, at the same, with their heads and with their hearts.” By saying that it will respect the peace treaty with Israel, as long as it is amended to include changes sought by the Egyptian people, who were excluded from its ratification process, the paper believes that the Muslim Brotherhood has found the formula to satisfy both its voters and the Americans.
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