HA’ARETZ: 1. UNION OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES DECIDES: OPEN-ENDED STRIKE
2. MIAMI FAMILY RESPONSIBLE FOR HALF OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO NETANYAHU’S CAMPAIGN
3. IN ATTEMPT TO CALM IRAN: ISRAEL AND US POSTPONE LARGEST-EVER MISSILE DEFENSE EXERCISE
MA’ARIV
1. STRIKE IN MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES’, DISRUPTIONS IN EDUCATION SYSTEM
2. LIBERMAN ON IRAN: „TIME TO TAKE ACTION”
One of the largest-ever joint exercises between US and Israel cancelled due to „operational sensitivity”.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES’ STRIKE
(…).
2. AFTER MINISTERS: SALARY INCREASE FOR MK’S.
Elected representatives arrange another NIS 1,000 per month increase for themselves.
3. BLESSED RAIN: KINNERET RISES BY 11 CENTIMETERS.
(…).
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. NIGHT EFFORT TO PREVENT MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES’ STRIKE (…).
2. YAALON: BECAUSE OF ELECTIONS, ADMINISTRATION IS HESITATING.
Deputy PM: American administration not pushing sharp sanctions against Iran due to election economics. Israel and US postpone extensive air defense exercise.
3. „AS A LAST RESORT
– USE FORCE AGAINST MKS IN TERRITORIES”
Security establishment presents new procedures for dealing with MKs who refuse to leave closed military areas.
WALLA!
1. HACKERS PROMISED
AND MADE GOOD? STOCK EXCHANGE AND EL AL SITES DOWN.
In media interviews, hackers promised to take down the two sites and this morning they could not be accessed. Stock Exchange spokeswoman: There were a few problems but service is continuing as usual.
2. THAILAND: HEZBOLLAH MILITANT’S EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS DISCOVERED
NANA10
1. SAUDI HACKER PROMISED AND MADE GOOD? EL AL SITE DOWN.
After hacker said that he would try to hack sites, El Al site went down and disruptions are being felt on stock exchange site. El Al: We are monitoring the hacker’s activity and will take appropriate measures.
2. THAILAND: HEZBOLLAH CELL’S EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS FOUND.
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot analyzes the situation with Iran and asserts that it is more likely that, „It will be the Iranians who squeeze the trigger first, against the background of the tightening economic chokehold and the increasing international isolation.” The author believes that, ‘The Iranians are beginning to be pushed into a corner in light of the pressures already being applied to them and those due to be applied to them very soon.” The paper suggests that, „Tehran’s economic collapse is just around the corner,” and adds that, „Nobody can predict the breaking point that will prompt Ahmadinejad into a desperate act, or when the ayatollahs will feel so threatened that they decide on some military provocation that will threaten the world and exact such a high price that it will relax the chokehold.” The author refers to Iran’s threats to close the Straits of Hormuz and adds, „Suddenly the scenarios have changed. The explosion will come not as a result of an Israeli attack but of panic by the Iranian leadership in response to the sanctions. The Middle East will go to war over fuel, money and goods
and not because nuclear facilities have been bombed.” The paper suspects that the Straits of Hormuz will be a main topic at next week’s meeting of NATO chiefs-of-staff, to which IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz has been invited, and says that, „In the above scenario, Israel will be a minor partner that will be asked mainly not to interfere.”
Ma’ariv claims that, „The number of Knesset lobbyists has jumped by hundreds of percent.” The author commends Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin’s efforts to promote legislation that would restrict lobbyists and complains that high-powered, well-financed lobbying firms, „are a cynical and anti-democratic phenomenon.”
Yisrael Hayom discusses the open-ended general strike in Israel’s municipalities and local authorities that began today and suggests that it is, „a red light
that the Government will be unable to reach agreement on next year’s state budget.” The author adds that, „Whoever will not clear the garbage from the streets in Carmiel or Bat Yam is taking a first small step towards early Knesset elections.”
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