HA’ARETZ 1. SHARON: EVACUATION TO BEGIN IN MID AUGUST; „MANY MORE PEOPLE WILL LIVE IN SETTLEMENT BLOCS.” 2. SABAN GROUP PURCHASES CONTROL OF BEZEQ FOR $972 MILLION. 3. TODAY: RABBI AMAR TO BE QUESTIONED UNDER CAUTION IN ABDUCTION AFFAIR. TA District State Prosecutor’s Office inclined to accept recommendation to indict Rabbi Amar’s wife. HATZOFEH 1. (.). TEACHERS: WE WILL STRIKE FOR MONTHS. (.). 2. SHARON: EXPULSION TO BEGIN AFTER NINTH OF AV. Legal establishment preparing for mass arrests during disengagement. IDF assessment: Six „rings” of forces around Gaza. 3. EVENTS FOR REMEMBRANCE DAY FOR THE FALLEN OF ISRAEL’S WARS TO BEGIN WITH SIREN THIS EVENING. 4. [ATTORNEY-GENERAL] MAZUZ DECIDES: RABBI AMAR TO BE QUESTIONED UNDER CAUTION. 5. ALERT IN NORTH FOLLOWING FIRING OF SHELL INTO SOUTHERN LEBANON. 6. FOREIGN MINISTER: WE WILL WORK FOR POLLARD’S RELEASE. MA’ARIV 1. SHARON: „THERE IS ATMOSPHERE OF EVE OF CIVIL WAR.” PM: Evacuation to begin between August 15-17. Foreign Minister: Against disengagement if Hamas wins elections. 2. REMEMBERING THE BOYS. At 20:00, minute-long siren will sound. People of Israel will honor memory of 21,954 people who fell in Israel’s wars and in acts of terrorism. 3. BEZEQ SOLD FOR NIS 4.5 BILLION. New owner Haim Saban already promising: I will lower prices. 4. TODAY: RABBI AMAR TO BE QUESTIONED. Investigators to ask: Did Rabbi know about attack on youth? YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Defense Minister in holiday interview: Soldiers will serve half a year less. MANDATORY SERVICE TO BE SHORTENED. Mofaz: Decision to take effect within one year – by next Independence Day. 2. THE PAIN THAT DOESN’T GO AWAY. Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel’s Wars to begin at 20:00 with minute-long siren. Tomorrow: Memorial ceremonies in cemeteries. Number of fallen since foundation of the state – 20,368. 3. 100,000 CELEBRATE WITH MACCABI. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Both papers comment on various issue related to State Comptroller Judge (ret.) Eliezer Goldberg’s latest annual report, which was issued on Sunday: Hatzofeh says that the report is, „a clarion call to the country’s leaders to burn out the blight of corruption.” Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, reminds its readers that Judge Goldberg is retiring this summer and says that, „He is leaving it to his successor to clean up an ocean of corruption. On this score, we have lost all shame and matters are open and well-known. Arab armies ill not destroy us. Corruption will do it.” Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, cites the report and calls for the establishment of state commission of inquiry into the plight of foreign workers in Israel. __________ Yediot Ahronot notes that Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel’s Wars begins tonight and says that, „It seems that nothing is as quintessentially Israeli as the Remembrance Day siren.” Breuer
