HA’ARETZ 1. SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL: WE WILL EVACUATE AMONA. 2. SHARON CONFIDANT: WE CONCEALED DISEASE DUE TO DAMAGE PUBLICATION WOULD CAUSE. 3. NETANYAHU DEMANDS THAT LIKUD MINISTERS RESIGN TODAY. Today: Likud primaries; polls to close at 22:00. 4. TEN STABBED AT MOSCOW SYNAGOGUE. HATZOFEH 1. Settlers wounded during uprooting of structure at Neveh Daniel. STRUGGLE TO STOP UPROOTING AT AMONA UNDERWAY. Site of next struggle – nine homes at Amona, near Ofra, which security establishment intends to demolish soon. Yesterday: Yesha Council announced that it is working to bring many people to barricade themselves in Amona. Wallerstein: „We are at start of additional stage that stems from wickedness.” 2. NETANYAHU ORDERS LIKUD MINISTERS TO RESIGN; TODAY – NRP PRIMARIES. 3. HORROR IN MOSCOW: 10 WORSHIPPERS STABBED AT SYNAGOGUE. (…). 4. STORM FOLLOWING IDEA TO PUT SHARON AT HEAD OF KADIMA LIST. Slight improvement in PM’s condition, movement of limbs improving. 5. MAZUZ: „I DIDN’T ORDER POLICE TO REFRAIN FROM INVESTIGATING CYRIL KERN.” 6. TRADING ON STOCK EXCHANGE TO BE EXTENDED UNTIL 17:30. MA’ARIV 1. Despite optimism: Additional complication discovered yesterday. NEW PROBLEM IN SHARON’S HEART. As if damage to PM’s brain wasn’t enough, additional complication discovered in his heart yesterday: Heart murmur that could cause additional clotting. Heart specialists succeed in stabilizing his condition. 2. LIKUD REBELLION AGAINST NETANYAHU. Last night: Likud Chairman told ministers – You must resign. Ministers respond: This is hasty, we will stay in Government. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Sharp clash between Netanyahu and Likud ministers over their resignations from Government. NETANYAHU: RESIGN! MINISTERS: WE DON’T WANT TO. Embarrassment in Likud on primaries day: Netanyahu demanded last night that four party ministers submit letters of resignation from Government this morning. Ministers outraged: He won’t force us. 2. „HEIL HITLER, I’VE COME TO MURDER,” YOUNG MAN SHOUTED AS HE STABBED WORSHIPPERS. (…). ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Hatzofeh strongly criticizes an idea by one of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s advisers that the Prime Minister head Kadima’s Knesset list despite his condition and says that it stems from concerns over Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s ability to attract votes. Yediot Ahronot suggests that while both the Government and Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen would have liked for the Palestinian legislative elections to be postponed, neither was willing to be seen as directly responsible for their postponement, and thus the elections will take place. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, refers to US evangelist Pat Robertson’s recent remarks that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s condition is a punishment from God for enacting the Disengagement Plan. The editors hint that National Union MK Rabbi Benny Elon should sever his friendship with Robertson due to the latter’s outlandish views on many topics.
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