HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

2.03.2004 HA’ARETZ 1. Tennenbaum affair: FOLLOWING TENNENBAUM: TIGHTENED SUPERVISION OVER RESERVE OFFICERS. Today: Investigators to begin polygraph tests. HATZOFEH 1. (…). UPROOTING PLAN: CUT RESIDENTS OFF FROM ELECTRICITY, WATER, CELLULAR PHONES AND INTERNET. Deputy Education Minister Zvi Hendel reveals plan being formulated by Sharon ’s Bureau to uproot Gush Katif residents: Residents to be evacuated by force, IDF will immediately destroy every evacuated house by bulldozer or controlled explosion, Signal Corps will obstruct cellular phones in area in order to prevent communications with those who oppose uprooting. Draft law: $150,000 for every Jewish family that is evacuated.


2. TENNENBAUM TO HIS INVESTIGATORS: I ARRIVED IN BEIRUT IN A COFFIN. 3. JUDGE DORNER TO ANNOUNCE TOMORROW WHEN ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD. MA’ARIV 1. Will he lie or not? Today: Tennenbaum’s decisive polygraph tests. TRUTH TEST. “Were you a Hezbollah agent?” Elhanan will be asked. If he is found to be lying – deal is off. Tennenbaum promised to teach terrorists how to smuggle drugs into Israel in containers. 2. “WE WILL PHOTOGRAPH FASHION CATALOGUE NEXT TO SEPARATION FENCE.” YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Tennenbaum investigation reaches peak: Will undergo polygraph test today. MOMENT OF TRUTH. Experts: This will be one of the most complicated polygraph tests ever done in Israel due to incredible amount of information. His lawyers: If he is lying – we will resign. 2. Other woman in Tennenbaum’s life in special Yediot Ahronot interview: “ELHANAN ABANDONED COUNTRY AND OUR CHILD AS WELL.” For first time, A, 43, tells about child she claims she had with Tennenbaum outside of marriage and their last meeting: “He told me: I am going to a dangerous place in order to do a deal, and it isn’t legal.” (…). ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Hatzofeh discusses the possibility that there will be early elections and says that as a recent survey shows that “The national movement is continuing to lead, even if there was a slight decrease of two or three mandates.” The editors declare that, “The elections should take place on their original date in 2007.” Yediot Ahronot comments on the Finance Ministry’s report on public sector salaries, which was published yesterday. BPI