1. BUSH TO ANNOUNCE TOMORROW: ANOTHER 20,000 SOLDIERS TO REINFORCE TROOPS IN IRAQ.
ASSESSMENTS: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AGAINST PM IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
3. WHO AGREED TO SIGN CANCELLATION OF WISCONSIN PROJECT? NETANYAHU.
4. DAHLAN TO HA’ARETZ: WE PROVED THAT GAZA DOES NOT BELONG TO HAMAS.
5. SENIOR OFFICE WHO WAS REMONSTRATED OVER MISSILE BOAT AFFAIR – PROMOTED.
Lt.-Col. R., who commanded Naval Intelligence during the war this summer to be appointed Haifa base commander.
HATZOFEH
1. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AGAINST OLMERT UPON HIS RETURN FROM CHINA.
According to Channel 10 report, the Attorney General intends to order that the Prime Minister be investigated over the Bank Leumi privatization, the Small Business Administration and his business dealings with friend Uri Masar.
2. Use of psychiatrist to prevent induction of right-wing youth into IDF?
IDF FILTERING RIGHT-WINGERS AT RECRUITMENT CENTERS.
3. GOC INTELLEGENCE: HIZBULLAH CONTINUING TO GAIN STRENGTH; CONCENTRATING MAIN ACTIVITIES NORTH OF THE LITANI.
4. PERETZ FREEZES FENCE CONSTRUCTION IN JUDEAN DESERT.
5. SHALIT’S ABDUCTORS: PREPARED TO HOLD HIM FOR YEARS.
MA’ARIV
1. Ma’ariv/Teleseker-TNS poll on battle among Labor Party members determined:
REVERSAL: BARAK LEADS.
Ma’ariv survey determines: Ami Ayalon only in second place, followed by Ofer Pines-Paz. Chairman Amir Peretz won only 12% support only. Barak 30%, Ayalon 23%, Pines-Paz 18% and Peretz 12%.
2. ASSESSMENT: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AGAINST OLMERT.
Center of attention: Bank Leumi affair.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Today: Olmert begins diplomatic talks with Chinese leadership.
CHINA: WE WILL NOT RELINQUISH TIES WITH IRAN.
Chinese leaders will further clarify: With all due respect to Israel, we will not boycott Hamas.
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot criticizes Finance Minister Avraham Hirchson’s, „weak leadership,” vis-à-vis, „a long series of serious cases,” that has hit the Finance Ministry. The editors call for Minister Hirchson’s replacement by, „a strong economic leader with sweeping vision, who is spotless, an exemplary professional and who is capable of controlling his advisers and officials with a strong hand.”
Hatzofeh hails the cooperation between Judea residents and environmental activists that contributed to Defense Minister Amir Peretz’s recent decision to halt work on the fence in the Judean Desert. The editors assert that, „Nobody disagrees that bisecting the Judean Desert with a fence would cause severe ecological and scenic damage and that it is possible to find other security solutions.”
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