HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS HAARETZ 1. COALITION FORCES SURROUND BAGHDAD; BRITISH FORCES IN CENTER OF BASRA.
2. HISTRADRUT TO CONSIDER NETANYAHUS OFFER TO SUSPEND STRIKE. 3. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE RULES: WOMEN OF THE WALL CAN PRAY AT ROBINSONS ARCH. 4. Protection: Danger of interception at low altitude. IF PATRIOT HITS SCUD, PUBLIC WILL BE CALLED ON TO REMAIN INDOORS. HATZOFEH 1. (
). BAGHDAD SURROUNDED REGIME COLLAPSING. (
). No change in Israels preparedness – Security establishment to evaluate situation on Wednesday. 2. OUTRAGE AMONG MINISTERS: DEMANDING DISCUSSION OF ISRAELS RESPONSE TO ROAD MAP. 3. IDF FORCES ACT AGAINST TERRORISTS IN GAZA. MAARIV 1. Histadrut threatening to call general strike on Wednesday. THE BIG STRIKE. If threat is carried out, Bezek, Electricity Company, airports, public transport and local authorities will be closed. 2. ISRAEL DEMANDS: ROAD MAP WITHOUT RIGHT OF RETURN. Israeli delegation to Washington for decisive meeting. 3. ISRAELI ASSESSMENT: SADDAM IS ALIVE AND IN COMMAND. (
). YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. 150 MOSSAD AGENTS: WE HAVE DECIDED TO QUIT. Large-scale departure from intelligence organization due to treasurys intention to cut pensions. 2. EFFORTS TO PREVENT BIG STRIKE. Netanyahu offers delay in legislating law to cut wages if Histradrut will begin negotiations. Histadrut considering offer but continuing its intentions to close the country on Wednesday. Today: Parents closing high schools. 3. DISCUSSION ON REDUCING ISRAELI LEVEL OF PREPAREDNESS SOON. (
). ________________________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Hatzofeh criticizes Shinui for being selective in the laws it fights to uphold and argues, It is conditional on the fact that the issue is concurrent with their worldview and position. The editors call on Interior Minister Avraham Poraz to uphold the laws regarding the sale of bread products during Passover, to send inspectors to fine those that sell bread products on the Passover holiday, and add that We cannot allow for a situation where ministers infringe on the rule of law, even if the laws concerned have a religious character to them. Yediot Ahronot discusses yesterday High Court of Justice decision to allow women to hold prayers at Robinsons Arch. The editors call this ruling an Eshkolian compromise after former Prime Minister Levy Eshkol. The paper discusses the religious-secular divide in Israel and claims, The difficult life here has turned us into grumbling, uptight people who love to hate. The editors remind us of the timeless Jewish maxim of Love thy neighbour as thyself and say, Even now it is not too late to find the middle path between Judaism and secular Israeli life. Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, comments that in the upcoming strike all will suffer with drops of water from the tap, regular power cuts, deliveries that wont be made, children remaining at home, and doctors who wont see patients. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, points out that US soldiers in Iraq always appear as though they have just come out of the shower shaved, their clothes are not creased
they arent irritated and are very calm as though the war is taking place someplace entirely different. Yediot Ahronot, in its fourth editorial, bemoans that Israeli ministers do not have good knowledge of Hebrew.
