HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

HA’ARETZ 1. STATE PROPOSAL: SCOPE OF NITZANIM PLAN – IN PROPORTION TO NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS. Today: Form that settlers will be requested to sign to be worded today; [Supreme Court Judge] Cheshin criticizes amount of compensation: The people decided – the people will pay. 2. BAILING OUT AT THE LAST MINUTE. F-16 pilot and navigator safely ejected from plane due to technical fault; plane crashed on runway. HATZOFEH 1. F-16 crew ejects due to fault and lands safely. PILOTS MIRACULOUSLY SAVED. (.). OC Air Force orders halt to F-16 training flights and establishment of committee of inquiry. 2. Judge Cheshin: „Evacuation-Compensation” does not take human dignity into account. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE CONSIDERING CHANGING EVACUATION COMPENSATION LAW. High Court of Justice discussed for hours 12 motions against Disengagement Plan. Judge Cheshin criticized state representatives throughout discussion. Judge Barak: Settlers’ claims are heart-rending. Ministers inclined to oppose demolition of evacuees’ homes. 2. POLICE INVESTIGATING SUSPICION OF FRAUD IN MEMBERSHIP DRIVE BY MK PERETZ. On day that MK Amir Peretz announced that he would contest Labor Party leadership, police decided to open investigation of suspicion that his activists forged party membership forms. This in wake of complaint by Labor Party legal adviser, attorney Oded Yaniv, who claimed: Peretz cannot contest Labor Party leadership. 3. CELL OF KASSAM LAUNCHERS THAT WAS ARRESTED BY PA – RELEASED ONE DAY LATER. 4. THREE YOUTHS WHO PLANNED TO BLOW UP CAR IN ORDER TO BLOCK HIGHWAYS, ARRESTED. 5. AZZAM AZZAM ADDRESSES JERUSALEM RALLY ON BEHALF OF RELEASING POLLARD. MA’ARIV 1. Plan: 600 homes to be built within three months. CITY AT NITZANIM. Defense Ministry to build 94-sq. meter temporary homes for evacuees. Basi to Gush Katif bereaved families: Move graves to Nitzan. Judge Cheshin: Evacuation Compensation Law ignores human dignity. 2. „MOM, I BAILED OUT.” (.). Two pilots safely ejected from their F-16 during landing due to fault with wheels. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Education Minister Limor Livnat in Yediot Ahronot interview last night: WE WON’T FIRE 2,000 TEACHERS IF THEY AGREE TO REFORMS. (.). 2. A MOMENT BEFORE CRASHINHG. (.). ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Hatzofeh criticizes the IDF for not responding to Monday’s Kassam rocket attack against Sderot. The editors note that the several planned terrorist attacks were narrowly averted in recent weeks and asks, „Are Sharon and his Defense Minister waiting until Jewish blood is spilled before they react?” Yediot Ahronot suggests that, „The election campaign for the next Knesset will begin the day after the Disengagement Plan is completed.” The editors believe that, „In no election campaign up to now have the parties reached the finish line so broken up, so hated by the voting public, so directionless and so aimless,” and discern two main reasons for this: „The ideological rift: (.). The Likud, broken and confused, even if it goes to the elections unified, will not succeed in hiding its cracks – the group that continues to dream vs., the group whose sole interest is power. The rift in the Labor Party is also severe – it has become clear that the vision of a quick peace is baseless. The personal rift: In recent years, Israeli politics has been penetrated by sub-standard people who see politics mainly as a source of income, who have led to its being held in contempt and to the moving away of better people from academia, the business world and the army.” Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, refers to the outgoing IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon’s personal animus against Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, reminds the former that, „Anger is a poor adviser,” and advises him to hold his peace until he has actually been discharged. Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, comments on the recent dismissal of Israel Broadcasting Authority Yosef Barel. BPI-info