HA’ARETZ
1. IDF: FIRING WILL CONTINUE DESPITE STRIKE ON CIVILIANS.
Twelve-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza Strip shelling; IDF reduces shelling „safety zone”.
2. PERES’S THREE „NO’S”: AGAINST SHELLING GAZA, LIEBERMAN JOINING GOVERNMENT AND LARGE GOVERNMENT.
1. Kadima convinced: Coalition to be formed within days.
„OLMERT PROMISED TO EVACUATE 68 COMMUNITIES.”
Thus revealed MK Avshalom Vilan – but Meretz insists: We will not join Government with Lieberman. Kadima planning to raise vote threshold to 4%. Civil marriages – only for those who cannot have religious marriage.
2. PALESTINIANS: EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL KILLED BY IDF SHELL.
Twelve members of her family wounded. IDF has fired almost 1,000 shells in recent days – Kassam fire continues. Responsibility for „Jerusalem envelope” transferred to police.
3. ISLAMIC JIHAD TERRORISTS WHO PERPETRATED STABBING ATTACKS AND PLANNED TO KIDNAP ISRAELIS APPREHENDED.
4. ABU MAZEN: STATE WITHIN SEPARATION FENCE BORDERS WITHOUT NEGOTIATIONS WILL LEAD TO CONTINUATION OF STRUGGLE.
5. PALESTINIAN BUSSINESS PEOPLE OWE APPROXIMATELY NIS 100 MILLION TO FACTORIES IN ISRAEL.
MA’ARIV
1. New revelations in Hanit Kikos affair.
THE TRUE STORY.
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YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. OLMERT: INTERIOR MINISTRY IS OURS. SHAS DEMANDS: FAIR COMPENSATION.
Kadima local authority heads convinced Olmert in meeting yesterday: Interior Ministry is vital for establishing part’s rule. Pensioners: We have been promised Health Ministry and additional minister in the Prime Minister’s Office.
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot says that the Government, „in concert with the Americans, is trying to wreck the Hamas government, even though nobody knows whether raining down punishment on the Palestinian population will make it want to get rid of its government or strengthen it,” and dismisses the idea that Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen might be able to engineer a Fatah victory in subsequent PA elections. However, the editors believe that if this were to happen, „and a moderate Palestinian body is born from the tumult, we would be obliged to offer it something much better than the convergence plan.”
Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, discusses the latest Central Bureau of Statistics national population data.
Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, commends the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (www.ipo.co.il/) on its 70th birthday.
Hatzofeh calls on the Government to further increase the basket of health services even before the new government is formed.
