SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS HA’ARETZ 1. ISRAEL PROPOSES TO PA TO BUILD RAILWAY FROM GAZA STRIP TO WEST BANK. PM approves proposal; plan: Track will run from Erez crossing to Tarkumiya crossing near Hebron. 2. Annex to Sasson report: Most outposts that were checked were built on private Palestinian lands. NETANYAHU AND SHARON GOVERNMENTS GAVE APPROXIMATELY NIS 70 MILLION TO ILLEGAL OUTPOSTS. 3. CENTRAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS TO KNESSET: PALESTINIANS’ POPULATION DATA ARE CREDIBLE. CBS position constitutes support for veteran demographers who claim PA has more than three million residents. HATZOFEH 1. 38 years after unification of Jerusalem: Police capitulate to violence on Temple Mount. JERUSALEM IN TROUBLE: SHARON PROMISES THAT IT WILL REMAIN FOREVER. PM makes remarks at special Jerusalem Day Cabinet meeting on Ammunition Hill. Government also approved NIS 280 million special aid package to city. MK Tommy Lapid raises „original idea” in honor of Jerusalem Day – Palestinian deputy mayor for Israel’s capital. Crowds celebrated in long series of ceremonies and festivities in Jerusalem yesterday. 2. IMPRISONMENT CANCELLED FOR NAVY MAN WHO REFUSED TO PARTICIPATE IN RACIST TRANSFER PROGRAM. St.-Sgt. Idan Trinovski was sentenced on Sunday to 28 days’ imprisonment after he expressed opposition to participating in uprooting. Uprooting opponents succeeded yesterday in vandalizing tractors that were due to clear ground for expellees. Delegation of US leaders arrives in order to support Gush Katif. MA’ARIV 1. Senior Foreign Ministry officials: Assad is ripe for negotiations. „RETURN TO SYRIAN TRACK AFTER GAZA EVACUATION.” Senior Foreign Ministry officials’ report: „Assad likely to agree to settlement even without receiving all of Golan Heights.” 2. RESCUE OPERATION FOR ISRAELIS IN BOLIVIA. 130 young people caught in rioting. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Exclusive – Man who eliminated crime in New York in Yediot Ahronot interview: „I AM READY TO HELP.” (.). 2. Trojan Horse gallops overseas: SECURITY PROGRAMS FOR EUROPEAN EMBASSIES STOLEN. Suspicion: Private investigators in Israel infiltrated spyware into computers of Swiss company that builds embassies in Africa. Police: Program discovered when investigators searched for information for ex-wife of millionaire Ronnie Duek, father of actress Yael Abukasis’s baby. ______________________________ Hatzofeh commends the campaign against Prime Minister Sharon’s Disengagement Plan by a group of Likud MKs. Yediot Ahronot complains that Israelis tend to shirk personal responsibility. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, suggests that the Israeli establishment is far more responsive to terrorist violence than it is to domestic violence. Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, says that the Foreign Ministry is bending over backwards to rescue young – but nevertheless adult – Israelis from Bolivia even though many of them ignored Foreign Ministry warnings not to travel there. Yediot Ahronot, in its fourth editorial, discusses an exhibit on aspects of kibbutz history at a Tel Aviv museum. BPI-info