HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. NEW TENT CITY IN THE HEART OF THE NEGEV: 20,000 PEOPLE IN CONTAINERS AND TENTS
Construction of facilities at Ketziot begins. Ramat Hanegev [Regional Council]<ramat-negev.org.il/en> residents protest: Local population will increase four-fold.
2. Secret procedure to reduce the population.
250,000 PALESTINIANS WHO LEFT FOR OVERSEAS NOT ALLOWED TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMES
3. VANDALISM AT YAD VASHEM: ANTI-SEMITIC GRAFITTI SPRAY-PAINTED ON MEMORIALS
MA’ARIV
1. STATE ATTORNEY’S OFFICE: DOUBTFUL IF IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO BUILD 300 APARTMENTS IN BEIT EL
Officials involved in Ulpana evacuation: Most of land designated for construction is under Palestinian ownership, Netanyahu will find it difficult to keep his promise.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Migration Authority arrests dozens of infiltrators from South Sudan.
THE EXPULSION
Interior Minister Eli Yishai: This is an operation to preserve the identity of the Jewish state.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. DESECRATION
Deep shock and wall-to-wall condemnations of hate graffiti spray-painted at Yad Vashem. Assessment: Extremist ultra-orthodox behind ugly deed. Special team investigating the incident.
2. DOZENS OF INFILTRATORS HAVE ALREADY BEEN DETAINED Operation „Going Home” underway: After wave of detentions in Eilat and the center of the country, Migration Authority is expected to detain hundreds more infiltrators in the coming days. Yishai: „Next week, the first plane will take off carrying Sudanese back home.”
WALLA!
1. 105 SOUTH SUDANESE DETAINED FROM YESTERDAY: „THIS IS THE BEGINNING”
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2. PANETTA TO PERES: „COOPERATION IS STRONGER THAN EVER”
President began his visit to Washington and met with US Defense Secretary. Peres also commented on talks with Iran: „Continuing, at accelerated pace, to build nuclear bomb while continuing to lie and deceive.”
3. ULPANA RESIDENTS ON NEW „HOMES”: NO ROOM TO BREATHE
Civil Administration expected to approve conversion of ground at Binyamin Regional Brigade base for neighborhood of 30 mobile homes for Ulpana Hill evacuees. Settlers already complaining: „Distance between each mobile home is only three meters.”
4. ISRAELI DIPLOMATS: „REMARKS ABOUT FOREIGNERS ARE HURTING US”
Consuls in US sent request to Foreign Ministry according to which they are finding it difficult to deal with Israeli public diplomacy in light of Minister Yishai’s and MK Regev’s comments. „This is seen as display of racism and xenophobia by the government.”
NANA10
1. EXPULSION CONTINUES: 20 FOREIGNERS DETAINED OVERNIGHT
2. PANETTA: COOPERATION WITH THE IDF IS AS STRONG AS EVER
US Defense Secretary meets with President Peres and stresses commitment to Israel’s security. Peres: „Iran continuing to lie and deceive.”
3. IN PLACE OF MIGRON
– STATE TO BUILD TWO NEW NEIGHBORHOODS
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 11:55.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot presents, „The Ulpana Test.” The author says that, „If the right has been created for a Jew from Israel to permanently reside on private Arab land on which he first occupied eight or nine years ago, then so much more so does an Arab refugee from the mandatory Land of Israel have the right to return to the places in which his family lived for dozens, if not hundreds, of years.”
Ma’ariv reminds its readers that, „The economy is contingent upon stable banking in order to ensure growth and to safeguard our savings.” The author surmises that, „Israel must draw two conclusions from the crisis in Spain: There is no stable economy without strong banking and the reforms-at-any-price mentality must skip over the banks.”
Yisrael Hayom notes that, „The demographic explosion in the ultra-orthodox community has reached such a point that Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer warned that the economy is unable to finance such a large idle population.” The author maintains that, „A creative ways must be found in which to enforce the [necessary] changes without filling our jails with ultra-orthodox who refuse to fulfill the new measures. If Prime Minister Netanyahu would demonstrate the courage, determination and the ability to bring about these changes, his popularity would reach such heights that his praises would be trumpeted for having finally ridden us of our most difficult and frustrating domestic problem.”
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