HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

HA’ARETZ 1. HAMAS: WE WILL AVENGE KILLING OF TWO ACTIVISTS IN GAZA. Cabinet approves security establishment proposal to station European observers at Rafiah crossing. 2. Agrexco affair: MK AVRAHAM ACTED ON AGREXCO’S BEHALF AFTER IT FUNDED HER TRIP ABROAD. 3. UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY UNANIMOUSLY APPROVES JANUARY 27 AS WORLD HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY. HATZOFEH 1. Elimination in Gaza strip: Terrorist responsible for Ashdod attack erased from list of fugitives. KASSAM ALERT FOLLOWING ELIMINATION. Air Force eliminated Hassan Madhoun, senior Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade activist, responsible for long list of attacks, along with senior Hamas military wing terrorist. Terrorist organizations promise revenge. 2. UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES: INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY. 3. PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER HELPED SON OF LIKUD CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEMBER TO RECEIVE PRISON FURLOUGH. 4. LAWYERS CHECKING LEGALITY OF IDF DECISION NOT TO DRAFT RIGHT-WING ACTIVISTS. 5. ABU MAZEN DISMISSES KADOUMI FROM DELEGATION TO TAHDIA TALKS. 6. EQUIPMENT DESIGNATED FOR THOSE EXPELLED FROM GUSH KATIF STOLEN. 7. WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP OPENS IN BE’ER SHEVA. MA’ARIV 1. Stock of flu vaccines almost gone. VACCINE CRISIS. (…). 2. Disengagement effect: OVER HALF OF EVACUEES HAVE NOT FOUND WORK. 3. HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY – ALL OVER THE WORLD. On January 27, world will remember the six million. UN unanimously approves Israeli proposal. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Commercial company gave free flights to many politicians. MINISTER KATZ ALSO FLEW FREE ON AGREXCO. MKs Ruhama Avraham and Eli Aflalo not alone: Large company interested in maintaining its control of agricultural transport market flew other VIPs at its expense. [Agriculture Minister] Katz: I traveled in accordance with rules and norms. 2. WORLD REMEMBERS. UN approves world Holocaust Remembrance day: January 27. 3. Sterile meeting. SOLDIERS: WE WERE INSULTED BY MOFAZ’S SECURITY. ISA ordered: Meeting with Minister without weapons. 4. Confrontation intensifies: IDF TO DISMANTLE YITZHAR’S WARNING FENCE after settlers damage cameras. 5. ONLY 10% OF DISENGAGEMENT DETAINEES TO BE TRIED. Lawyers outraged: State making law into laughingstock. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Hatzofeh refers to the Iranian President’s recent statement that Israel should be wiped off the map and says that, “If Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was not busy day and night dealing with the rebels in his party and in trying to find ways to appoint as ministers ‘good boys’ who will line up behind him, he would consider significant steps against Iran.” The editors also call on Jewish communities and Holocaust survivors around the world to demonstrate against Iran. Yediot Ahronot says that if Syrian President Bashar Assad, “is still sitting in his Damascus palace thinking he can thumb his nose at George W. and his friends, he will make the mistake of his life.” The editors assert that, “America, since that terrible September 11, is angry,” and add that, “And when America is angry, not even Allah will save Bashar Assad.” Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, suggests that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is not overly perturbed by the Likud rebels and says that he, “enjoys – and how! – seeing the reporters’ faces the day after,” they have dared to eulogize him. However, the editors aver that since the rift in the Likud is deep-seated and ideological, a split is inevitable. Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, says that the black eye that members of the so-called “hilltop youth” gave to the deputy commander of the IDF Samaria Brigade is an affront to every Israeli and declares that, “It is important to prove to the ‘hilltop youth’ that they will not determine the norms of governance in the State of Israel.” BPI-info