1.10 HAARETZ 1. GOVERNMENT LIKELY TO APPROVE FENCE AT ARIEL WITH GAP. 2. FINANCE MINISTRY: USE JORDANIAN AND EGYPTIAN PORTS TO BREAK SANCTIONS. 3. MEMBERS OF BAT AYIN TERROR CELL SENTENCED TO 12-15 YEARS IMPRISONMENT.
4. MAN WHO RECONSTRUCTED SHAICHAT MURDER RECANTS. Tarek Nujeidat claimed yesterday: I was threatened into confessing and reconstructing abduction and murder. 5. STATE COMPTROLLER: NO COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL VIEW OF WAR ON TERROR. Main points of report: Security establishment has failed to develop non-lethal weapons. Discrepancies in National Insurance payments to terror victims. Anarchy vis-?-vis direct donations to IDF units. Lack of budgets for non-conventional warfare kits and faults in their quality. Faults in cooperation on dealing with smuggling of war materiel. (
). HATZOFEH 1. Public sector employees strike enters third day this morning. BREAKING THE STRIKE: IMPORTS AND EXPORTS VIA JORDANIAN AND EGYPTIAN PORTS. Thus Finance Minister Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Lieberman made unprecedented decision yesterday. Assessment: Will cost approximately $1,000,000 per day to divert container ships. Finance Ministry to compensate those who use maritime transportation for resultant high costs. 2. STATE COMPTROLLERS REPORT: LACK OF PERSONAL PROTECTION COSTING LIVES. Comptroller, on separation fence: Directives on implementation of projects not being implemented. (
). 3. THOSE ACCUSED OF MURDERING OLEG SHAICHAT RECANT ACCUSATIONS. 4. HUNDREDS OF FOREIGN WORKERS FROM GHANA VOLUNTARILY DEPORTED ON FLIGHT HOME. 5. THREE MEMBERS OF CELL THAT PERPETRATED ATTACK ON TRANS-ISRAEL HIGHWAY CAUGHT. Noam Leibovitz, seven, murdered three months ago. Terrorist who shot at car and two others still free. 6. IDF ARRESTS TERRORIST IN JENIN WHO WAS ON HIS WAY TO PERPETRATE TERROR ATTACK. MAARIV 1. State Comptroller uncovers severe faults regarding soldiers protection. FLAK JACKET FAILURE. Comptrollers report: Soldiers in territories do not have enough flak jackets and helmets. Jeeps and APCs are not protected properly. Phenomenon: Parents who are aware of sons plight have been caught recently smuggling ceramic flak jackets in from abroad. 2. PLAN: USE JORDANIAN AND EGYPTIAN PORTS. Finance minister declares war on striking workers. 3. WE WILL DEFEAT PA LIKE WE WON IN 1973. Chief-of-Staff predicts end to war in territories. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. STRIKE COSTING FAMILIES NIS 200 A DAY, accuses Netanyahu. Histadrut: Lets see him return NIS 200 a day when the strike is over. Finance Ministry declares war on strikers: We will operate private port in Haifa and will divert goods through Jordan and Egypt. 2. Scandal over shortage of flak jackets. THEYRE ABANDONING OUR CHILDREN. In wake of State Comptrollers report on shortage of flak jackets for soldiers: 1,000 parents demanding that security establishment provide flak jackets immediately. Comptroller warns: Faults in ISA security at airports and embassies abroad. 3. CONCERNS AT EL AL OVER BOYCOTT BY PASSENGERS. Dozens of outraged calls made to company, which employs some of refusenik pilots. 200 academics sign petition against refuseniks. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Hatzofeh discusses the arrest of three Israeli Arabs for the murder of Corporal Oleg Shaichat and says that the act was no less despicable if it the motivation was criminal or ideological. Yediot Ahronot comments on Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahus economic reforms and believes that the public understands that there is no other choice. The editors point out that a strike will cause serious damage to the economy and call for talks instead of strikes. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, remarks on the latest data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
