HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

HA’ARETZ 1. JNF: State Prosecutor’s Office personnel have become post-Zionists. ATTORNEY GENERAL MAZUZ DECIDES: JNF LANDS TO BE MARKETED TO ARABS AS WELL. KKL to be compensated for land sold to non-Jewish citizens with alternative land from Israel Lands Administration. 2. 60 YEARS LATER – LIBERATORS AND VICTIMS MEET AGAIN AT AUSCHWITZ. 3. SHARON TO ANNOUNCE RELEASE OF HUNDREDS OF PRISONERS; DISCUSSIONS ON TRANSFER OF WEST BANK CITIES. HATZOFEH 1. Resumption of diplomatic contacts between Israel and PA. “ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL – FROM CITIES IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA AS WELL.” This according to Palestinian sources after Weisglass-Erekat meeting. Two met yesterday for two hours in order to prepare Sharon-Abu Mazen meeting. IDF Intelligence Research Dept. Abu Mazen continuing to hold to his position on return of refugees. 2. TERRORISTS’ OFFICES IN DAMASCUS STILL ACTIVE. 3. VIOLENT DISTURBANCE BY POLICEMEN AGAINST GUSH KATIF DEMONSTRATORS. Gush Katif residents demonstrated against meeting between IDF commanders and Palestinian officers, near Neve Dekalim – police brutally dispersed demonstration. Demonstrators had previously punctured Palestinian vehicles’ tires. 4. RABBI YOSEF EXPRESSES SATISFACTION OVER MINISTER LIVNAT’S PROPOSAL. Sharon to meet with Yishai again in attempt to bring Shas into government. MA’ARIV 1. THE WORLD REMEMBERS. Leaders of 40 countries gathering today at Auschwitz to mark 60 years since liberation of extermination camp. 2. “PARDON” FOR TIRAWI AND ABU SHABAKH. Another Israeli gesture: Senior Palestinian officials to be removed from list of fugitives. Sharon to consider releasing hundreds of prisoners. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Sharon to Yediot Ahronot: Abu Mazen is starting to work, I am satisfied. “WE WILL MEET SOON.” Contacts in high gear: Joint teams trying to formulate agreements ahead of meeting. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot says, “As the date for implementing the Disengagement Plan draws closer, the sides are coming out of their shells.” The paper suggests that whereas the Right had used slogans such as, “We have love and it will be victorious” in order to promote their position, their true character can be seen in their violent outbursts against Israeli and Palestinian police. The editors condemn the settlers for not opposing government policies in a legal manner, and for not being willing to pay the consequences of their civil disobedience. Hatzofeh, in its second editorial, criticizes media reports regarding yesterday’s disturbances in the Gaza Strip between local settlers and Israeli policemen in which the former were blamed for taking the initiative. Hatzofeh quotes Prime Minister Sharon’s recent speech in which he stated that Israel would not allow other people to be responsible for its security and points out that, “Sharon made this declaration four days after he transferred the security of Sderot residents to the hands of Palestinian murderers with several years’ experience in murdering Jews.” BPI-info