HAARETZ 1. FINANCE MINISTRY AND HISTADRUT IN NIGHT EFFORT TO END STRIKE. (
). 2. JORDAN ASKS ISRAEL TO BUILD FIFTH MOSQUE MINARET ON TEMPLE MOUNT. 3. IDF: ZUHARIYAS ORCHARD ENDANGERS MOFAZS KOCHAV YAIR HOME, AND THEREFORE MUST BE UPROOTED. 4. BUSH: ISRAEL MUST STOP HUMILIATING PALESTINIANS. HATZOFEH 1. SHOCK AT LIKUD CONFERENCE: ISA SECURITY GUARDS SHUT UP SHARONS OPPONENTS. When PM said disengagement – wave of catcalls. ISA security guards who were in audience acted to shut them up. Not first time that ISA has been involved in Likud confrontation. 2. ECONOMY STRIKEBOUND. (
). 3. NRP APPEALS TO HIGH COPURT OF JUSTICE AGAINST PAYMENT OF ADVANCES TO SETTLERS. 4. BUSH: ISRAEL MUST STOP HUMILIATING PALESTINIANS. 5. SYRIA BEGINS REDEPLOYMENT IN EASTERN LEBANON. 6. THREE MEDALS FOR ISRAEL AT PARALYMPICS.
MAARIV 1. After midnight: Night negotiations to find solution for local authorities crisis. SHARON: STRIKE UNJUSTIFIED. (
). 2. IRAQI PM MEETS WITH FM SHALOM. They shook hands in UN building. 3. KING OF THE POOL. Swimmer Yitzhak Mamistalov won gold medal yesterday at Athens Paralympics. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Night discussion in effort to end strike. STUCK. (
). 2. BUSH TO ISRAEL: ENOUGH HUMILIATION OF PALESTINIANS. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Both papers comment on various socio-economic issues related to the – just concluded – public sector strike: Hatzofeh calls for the shelved plan to unify many smaller local councils to be reconsidered and urges the government to make more of an effort to find alternative employment for local authority employees who are slated to be dismissed. Yediot Ahronot bemoans the many unanswered questions regarding why the strike broke out when it did. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, remarks on the number of children who are compelled to seek some form of private charitable assistance and accuses the government and the Knesset of shirking their responsibility. Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, notes that the late Menahem Begin and the Likud swept to power in 1977, promising a socio-economic revolution and suggests that, Whoever watched the news yesterday understood just how far this revolution is from the Likud and the Likud from Begin. BPI-info
