HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS

HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS

MA’ARIV:1. ULPANA NEIGHBORHOOD TRAP.

High Court of Justice orders demolition of five homes in Beit El neighborhood within less than two months. Around Netanyahu, it is feared that evacuation will erode right-wing support for him in elections. Demands in Likud for immediate passage of law to bypass the High Court of Justice but Barak, Meridor and Begin object. Confidant of PM: „We’re in trouble.”

 

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. Netanyahu backtracks: Elections cancelled.

UNITY GOVERNMENT.

Night drama: PM invited Kadima Chairman Shaul Mofaz to meeting. Goal: Bring Kadima into government and postpone elections until November 2013. Mofaz will, apparently, be the only Kadima minister. Liberman in on move. Understandings achieved on state budget, Tal Law and changing electoral system. Assessment: Unity government will find it easier to operate against Iran.

YISRAEL HAYOM

1. 02:30

Unprecedented political drama.

NETANYAHU AND MOFAZ AGREE: UNITY AND CANCELLATION OF [EARLY] ELECTIONS.

Upheaval: PM Netanyahu and Kadima Chairman Mofaz agree to establish unity government by bringing Kadima into government. Mofaz to be appointed Vice Premier and minister-without-portfolio. Coalition Chairman delayed Knesset dissolution law after it was approved in first reading by large majority. Mofaz: We are entering the government, Kadima’s two main planks

changing electoral system and egalitarian conscription

will be advanced.

WALLA!

 

1. NO ELECTIONS

 

 

KADIMA JOINING UNITY GOVERNMENT.

PM presented Likud MKs with coalition agreement he signed with Kadima Chairman, who will be appointed Vice Premier and will be member of all security forums. Alternative to Tal Law to be legislated by August.

 

 

 

 

 

NANA10

 

1. CHANGING DIRECTION: NO EARLY ELECTIONS, KADIMA JOINING NETANYAHU GOVERNMENT.

 

After Knesset had already approved dissolution law on first reading, PM and Opposition Chairman met and signed coalition agreement. (…).

 

 

 

 

 

[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 11:10. The Ha’aretz print edition was unavailable today.] ______________________________

 

SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

 

 

 

Yediot Ahronot points to, „the importance of the role of academics in the collective effort to achieve social equality and find the necessary balance between its various components.” The author believes that, „The proper way is to create a more educated society, as the preferred method of creating a more just and equal society. This year, 6,090 ultra-orthodox [students] are studying in the campuses and the academic programs that were adapted to their way of living, but that is insufficient. The goal is 27,000 ultra-orthodox students, in accordance to their proportion of the population.”

 

Ma’ariv argues that, „If the Israeli Left was really true to its values, then it must demand the disqualification of MK Hanin Zoabi’s status as a candidate for the Knesset,” and adds, „Zoabi is an asset for racists, be they Jews or Arabs.”

 

Yisrael Hayom contends that, „It is the obligation of any honest person

 

 

to begin a discussion regarding the military enlistment of the ultra-Orthodox with the question of the place of the Torah world in Israel society.”

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