HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS

HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

 

HA’ARETZ

1. GOVERNMENT INITIATING ORDER TO BUILD STRUCTURES ON THE WEST BANK IN HASTENED PROCESS WITHOUT PLANNING.

Order to allow construction of temporary residential site for Migron outpost evacuees. IDF Advocate General: This is slippery slope of exemptions and easements.

 

 

MA’ARIV

1. EVE OF REMEMBRANCE DAY FOR THE FALLEN 2012

People of Israel to unite in memory of 22,993 fallen. Sirens to sound at 20:00.

 

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. This evening at 20:00: Sirens to sound in memory of Israel’s fallen.

WITH A BOWED HEAD

(…).

YISRAEL HAYOM

1. State of Israel unites in memory of 22,993 fallen.

BOWING HEADS

Remembrance Day for the Fallen 2012 to begin at 20:00 with one minute siren. This year 126 fallen were added to the family of sorrow and pain. Tomorrow at 11:00, main ceremony to be held at Mt. Herzl and at military cemeteries.

 

WALLA!

1. SUSPECTED TERRORIST ATTACK IN KFAR SABA: PALESTINIAN STABS CAB DRIVER.

 

 

2. STATE TO SEEK DELAY IN EVACUATION OF ULPANA HILL.

 

 

NANA10

1. SALAFIST LEADER IN EGYPT: CANCELLATION OF AGREEMENT

WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

 

 

2. STATE TO SEEK EXTENSION FOR EVACUATION OF ULPANA HILL.

 

 

[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 14:10.] ______________________________

SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Yediot Ahronot suggests that, „The term ‘Jewish state’ is under attack by three groups: Religious, Nationalist and Liberal,” and adds that, „The first two would like to take it for themselves while the third is interested in cancelling it.” The author reminds his readers that, „We are a young state; 64 years is the blink of an historic eye,” and believes that, „Extremism in mood and the rejection of complexity may, therefore, be attributed to our being adolescents in our sovereign life.” The paper concludes: „The illusion that it is either possible or desirable to decide between Judaism and democracy must dissipate. Without a Jewish identity, we have no right to exist. Without a democratic identity, it would be impossible to exist.”

Ma’ariv believes that, „Thanks to the proximity of Remembrance Day [for the Fallen of Israel’s Wars] and Independence Day<www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2012/Israel_64_years_independence_April_2012.htm&gt;, the memory of the fallen is preserved as something very significant for the entire population, not just for the bereaved families.” The author adds, „With all due respect to the difficulties and the pain of the bereaved families,” vis-à-vis the immediate and sharp transition from Remembrance Day to Independence Day, „the proximity of the two days and the idea and message behind it cannot be changed.”

Yisrael Hayom ventures that, „Israelis who live abroad are not detached from the state. They are part of Israeli society, some more so, some less. Also, their rate of return home is considerable, certainly in comparison to emigration from countries the economies of which are on a par with Israel’s.” The author believes that, „We must maintain links with them alongside our efforts to develop ties with Diaspora Jews; we will all benefit thereby.”

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