HAARETZ 1. PREPARATIONS FOR OPENING TEMPLE MOUNT TO JEWS NEXT WEEK. Final contacts with Waqf: Hanegbi: Mount will be opened unilaterally; Waqf: Remarks are unnecessary provocation. 2. IDF STATIONS ARTILLERY ON NORTHERN BORDER: WE WILL RESPOND AGGRESSIVELY IN FUTURE.
3. Police: Tape which reached Haaretz attests to provocation of police officers before confrontation and beating of detainees. DRUZE DEMONSTRATION: POLICEMEN WERE BEATEN BEFORE CONFLICT BEGAN. 4. DAHLAN IN BETHLEHEM: OLDER GENERATION MUST RETIRE. 5. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE BANS FATTENING GEESE FOR PAT? BUT ONLY FROM 2005. HATZOFEH 1. Senior Hizballah officials signal: We will not escalate situation. US PRESSURE MODERATED ISRAELI RESPONSE AGAINST LEBANON. IDF in show of force on northern border reinforces border units. OC Northern Command: IDF will respond sharply to Hizballah fire. Beirut accuses: Israeli planes flew over Lebanon yesterday. 2. 69 PRISONERS MOST OF WHOM HAD BEEN IN ISRAEL ILLEGALLY TO BE RELEASED TODAY. 3. POLICE TO INVESTIGATE VIOLENCE AGAINST DRUZE PROTESTERS. MAARIV 1. Plan: Ariel out, eastern Jerusalem in. FENCE HAS MOVED. American pressure succeeds: Security establishment completes new plan for security fence, which leaves city of Ariel out, eastern Jerusalem in. Fence to be built in 11 months at cost of NIS 1.8 billion. Sharons Bureau: Decision has not yet been made. 2. LAST NIGHT: COMPUTER VIRUS ATTACKED ISRAEL. Thousands of home computers hurt. 3. HIZBALLAH MEMBER WHO WAS ELIMINATED RAN CELLS IN WEST BANK. 4. MISSING SOLDIER ASKED TO PAY TV LICENSE FEE. IBA sent bill to Zechariah Baumel. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. 20,000 ISRAELIS EMIGRATED TO TORONTO IN THREE YEARS. Canadian immigration Dept. report: Flow began at end of 2000. Assessment: Growing trend several thousand more will emigrate by years end. Toronto consulate: We are being overwhelmed. 2. WE WILL GO BACK TO VISITING TEMPLE MOUNT NEXT WEEK. Minister Hanegbi: Every Jew will be able to go up to Mount. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Hatzofeh asks, How long will we show restraint? and comment that Shlomi residents have been disappointed with Israels policy on this matter. The editors emphasize The terrorist organizations operating from Lebanon, with encouragement from Syria and Iran, are not intimidated by objections [from Israel and the international community] and urge the government to discard its forgiving policy towards Hizballah. Yediot Ahronot criticizes MKs for rushing to take advantage of the photo opportunity in Shlomi but forgetting Haviv Dadons family, who did not receive a condolence call from any government representative. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, asks why Public Security Minister Tzachi Hanegbi chose yesterday to announce that Jews will be allowed to visit the Temple Mount again next week, a move, which the editors argue, will be viewed by the Muslim world as a provocation. Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, criticizes the governments plan to import cows for the settlements and claims that it is comparable to the policy of increasing construction in the settlements. The editors wonder, If the Americans and the Palestinians claim that increasing construction is a violation of the road map, we can deceive them by saying that it is only cow sheds. BPI.
