SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS HA’ARETZ 1. EUROPREAN UNION TO ALLOW DIPLOMATS TO MEET WITH HAMAS. 2. EIGHT FROM NABLUS DETAINED FOR PLANNING TERRORIST ATTACKS. 3. HA’ARTEZ POLL: PERES (26%) AND PERETZ (24%) CLOSE AT TOP. 4. EFFORT TO PREVENT DEPORTATION OF 30 SEVERELY ILL CHILDREN OF FOREIGN WORKERS. 5. DAUGHTER OF ISRAELI AMBASSADOR IN LONDON RELEASED FROM PERUVIAN JAIL; HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF DRUG SMUGGLING. HATZOFEH 1. [Knesset Speaker] Rivlin fed up with hidden unemployment in Knesset and decided to reveal it: SLACKER REPORT. „Once, Knesset was mission; today, MKs see it as optional,” Knesset Speaker said yesterday as he revealed MKs’ monthly attendance reports for various committees. (.). 2. STOPPING THE COUNTRY. Yesha Council announced yesterday: „Stop for a moment, think it over,” to be carried out in approximately 10 days. Israelis throughout the country will be asked to stop on roadsides for 15 minutes in order to, „reconsider disengagement.” 3. NABLUS: CELL OF 15- AND 16-YEAR-OLD SUICIDE TERRORISTS ARRESTED. 4. MAY CPI ROSE BY 0.3%. MA’ARIV 1. ISA Director meets Samaria settlement rabbis. DISKIN PROMISES RABBIS: WITHOUT ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTIONS. According to participants, ISA Director stressed: As policy, we will not arrest disengagement opponents in advance. 2. DOLLAR APPROACHING NIS 4.5. Dollar rate dropping rapidly. Prices of fuel, airline tickets and rents to rise. 3. SIGHTS COURTESY OF THE MILLIONAIRE. Battalion #101 paratroopers aided by contributions in order to buy laser sights. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. EDUCATION MINISTER: 2,500 TEACHERS WILL BE FIRED THIS MORNING. (.). 2. SIXTY DAYS TO DISENGAGEMENT. (.). ______________________________ Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, surveys recent media interviews by former IDF Chief-of-Staff Moshe Yaalon and former ISA Director Avi Dichter and suggests that, „Both of them are convinced that the Palestinians are not mature enough for a normal state of their own and are not yet ready for a true peace and historic reconciliation with Israel. Both of them say that the withdrawal from Gaza will be seen on the Palestinian street as a victory for the terrorist line. Both of them paint a reasonable portrait of a renewed outbreak of terrorism in a few months and an outraged Israeli reto it that will include the military reoccupation of parts of Gaza. And in the end, both of them – Dichter and Yaalon – have the same approach to disengagement: They see it as a tactical step only in which the costs must be unsentimentally weighed against the benefits. Yaalon emphasizes the costs, Dichter the benefits. This is an argument over the price and not over the merchandise.” Hatzofeh calls on its readers not to travel to those European countries the citizens of which, according to a recent ADL survey, still harbor anti-Semitic prejudices. Yediot Ahronot discusses the privatization of Bezeq. BPI-info