27.01.2004 HAARETZ 1. PRISONER LISTS COMPLETED; OBEID AND DIRANI TO LEAVE PRISON TODAY. Expedited preparations ahead of captives deal on Thursday. Prisoners to be concentrated at prison in Sharon area and examined. Preliminary DNA analysis for soldiers likely to take place in Germany. IDF Chief Rabbi, Prof. Hiss and dentist to aid in identification. Tannenbaum to be allowed to spend weekend with his family.
2. GOVERNMENT TO CONSULT WITH ARAD FAMILY. 3. DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE KERRY: SHARON GOVERNMENT WILL NOT SUPPLY THE GOODS. 4. EUROPEAN POLL: JEWS PLAYING THE VICTIM. 17% of respondents: Jews arent really our countrymen. 5. [STATE PROSECUTOR EDNA] ARBEL: PUBLIC FIGURE WHO IS INDICTED MUST SUSPEND HIMSELF. She did not mention names and sufficed with hints: Must be more careful with senior figures. HATZOFEH 1. Channel 10: Among those to be released – three terrorists who perpetrated attacks against soldiers in Lebanon. ASSESSMENTS: RON ARAD IS NOT ALIVE. Names of prisoners to be released on Thursday published on Prisons Service website. Tension in prisons holding prisoners due to be released in deal. IDF Rabbinate soldiers exhumed bodies of Lebanese terrorists and identified them. Israel to consider releasing terrorists with blood on their hands in exchange for new information on Ron Arad. Former ISA Director Yaacov Peri: Must not release Mustafa Dirani. Today: Dirani to testify in court in claim for damages he presented against state. 2. Exclusive: US PROVIDING SCHOLARSHIPS TO PALESTINIAN UNIVERSITIES THAT SERVE AS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TERROR. MAARIV 1. Come work with us for a year – and maybe stay. AUSTRALIA WANTS IMMIGRANTS FROM ISRAEL. Australian FM to Maariv: We are encouraging Israelis from 18 to 30 to emigrate to Australia. Your young people are wanted here. Chairman of Knesset Absorption Committee: We must struggle against emigration. 2. DONT RELEASE THEM. List of 436 terrorists that will be released on Thursday published last night. Frieda Bernstein, mother of Marco, who was killed in Lebanon: The state has betrayed me. 3. SHARON CONFIDANTS: ARBEL HAS EXAGGERATED. Claim: She is pursuing PM. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Dramatic visit: German envoy met Tannenbaum yesterday. YOU ARE RETURNING HOME, MEDIATOR SAID. AT LAST, CRIED TANNENBAUM. Elhanan Tannenbaum has waited three years for this moment. (
). His situation is satisfactory, envoy reported to Israel. 2. SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT ASSESSMENT: RON ARAD NOT ALIVE. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot urges Israelis to act with restraint and circumspection ahead of Thursdays prisoner exchange. The editors urge the Arad family and their supporters to be more understanding towards the families of the abducted soldiers and urge the public not be to too harsh on Elhanan Tannenbaum. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, notes that the prisoner exchange has served to temporarily push several other stories out of the headlines and remarks, After the captives will have returned, we will again be obliged to return to the prison of reality. Hatzofeh comments on the appointment of Meni Mazuz as Israels new Attorney General. The editors commend, The new Attorney Generals decision to refrain from attending Cabinet meetings on a regular basis, because it, hints at his desire to underscore his independence regarding the manner in which he fulfills his post.
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