HAARETZ 1. MUBARAK TO PERSUADE GULF STATES TO ESTABLISH RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL IN ORDER TO BROADEN CIRCLE OF PEACE. Initiating pressure on Syria to carry out daring steps to resume negotiations. Egypt: Israel and PA have reached understandings that will lead to ceasefire. 2. IDF SOLDIER KILLED IN BOMB EXPLOSION AS HE LED HIS DOG ON SEARCH FOR GAZA STRIP TUNNEL. 3. POLICE TO CHECK IF COMPANY IN DEAL BETWEEN NIMRODI AND SHARON WAS FRONT COMPANY. 4. COMMANDERS, FOLLOWING NAVAL COMMANDO UNIT INQUIRY: WE ARE LOOKING OUT FOR OUR SOLDIERS. Senior command understands that open-fire orders must be examined. 5. NETANYAHU SUPPORTS UNITY BUT SHARONS PEOPLE WORRIED ABOUT COMPLACENCY AT CONFERENCE. 6. DOLLAR CONTINUES TO COLLAPSE – NIS 4.32. American currency at year low. 7. MAN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF SPYING FOR IRAN. According to suspicion, Iran tried to use him to recruit Israeli Arab students. HATZOFEH 1. Canine unit fighter, St.-Sgt. Nadav Kudinski from Kiryat Gat, killed in bomb explosion during IDF activity on Gaza outskirts. FOR FIRST TIME – EXPLODING TUNNEL FROM GAZA STRIP TO ISRAELI TERRITORY. Tunnel – hundreds of meters long and approximately six meters deep – dug from under chicken coop in Gaza Sajaiya neighborhood. Tunnel reached to near Palestinian gas terminal near kibbutz Nahal Oz. 2. EGYPT: PROGRESS IN PROCESS THAT WILL LEAD TO CEASEFIRE AND DECLARATION OF PALESTINIAN STATE. 3. BHAQA AL-GARBIYEH RESIDENT ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF HAVING BEEN RECRUITED INTO IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE. 4. NETANYAHU TO SHARON: I WILL SUPPORT BRINGING LABOR PARTY INTO NEW GOVERNMENT. 5. ISRAELIS WITH IRAQI CITIZENSHIP WILL BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN IRAQI ELECTIONS. 6. Expos?: CONSTRUCTION OF BASE FOR AMERICAN EQUIPMENT COMPLETED ON SAMARIA BORDER EAST OF ELAD. MAARIV 1. PLAN: FIRE 15,000 TEACHERS. (
). 2. LOYAL UNTO DEATH. They were best friends. Nadav and Diablo – soldier and his dog. They were killed together yesterday when bomb exploded during discovery of tunnel. 3. US: ALL COMMUNITIES BEYOND FENCE TO BE DISMANTLED. Thus said President Bushs Middle East envoy Elliot Abrams. 4. DOLLAR – ONLY NIS 4.32. Assessments: Will climb to NIS 4.55 within year. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Fighters parents enter battle: OUR SONS ARE NOT MURDERERS. Our boys in territories are being put in impossible situations, protest parents of sons are suspected of shooting wounded terrorist. Maybe the elites will understand what the occupation is doing to us. They write to their sons: Dont let goody-goodies hurt your survival instincts. 2. TOGETHER TO THE END. St.-Sgt. Nadav Kudinski (20), outstanding canine soldier, received best dog in unit. Together, they marched after Golani Brigade unit on Monday night in order to locate Gaza tunnel – and were killed by large bomb. 3. CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT CLOSE. Egyptian sources: Israel and Palestinians have succeeded in formulating series of important understandings. 4. DOLLAR NOSEDIVES, STOCK EXCHANGE GALLOPS. American currency plummeted yesterday to NIS 4.323. Stock Exchange hit second record in two days.
SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Hatzofeh praises OC Personnel Maj.-Gen. Elazar Sterns recent remarks to the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee: In every generation, IDF officers must see themselves as if they left Auschwitz – not to do what was done to us and to see to it that what was done to us will not be done again. The editors assert that the Palestinians have no similar standards and cite the late Rabbi of Klausenberg who said that the Palestinians were worse than the Nazis and when asked how, replied: We didnt see even one Nazi who was willing to be killed so that a Jew might die – not so with the Palestinians. Yediot Ahronot fears that, The State of Israel, after more than 40 years of terrorism, is indeed fighting for its life, but it is also losing the last remnants of being the chosen people among the nations; we are becoming the lepers of the world and only those who believe that Its not important what the nations think are entitled to ignore the severe deterioration in the international status of the Jewish state. The editors defend the security forces and aver that, All of the harsh claims must be submitted only to the politicians, from all parties but mainly from the government. Fingers in the government and the Knesset could let the fingers on the triggers have a long vacation – so we hope and pray. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, says that while, The leopard cannot change his spots, the members of the Likud Central Committee will, at tomorrows crucial meeting, reverse their previous position and, support bringing the Labor Party into the government out of – apparently unjustified – concern that the only alternative is new elections in which they stand – Heaven forbid – to lose sources of income and jobs. Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, writes: Now that Azzam Azzam is home and the Prime Minister and the various ministers are certainly entitled to offer their congratulations and to congratulate themselves, they should be told that even though modesty doesnt become politicians, theres a limit to I decided, I ordered, I met with, I said, I visited, I, I, I. BPI-info
