1. AYALON: IF I AM ELECTED TOMORROW – WE WILL TOPPLE OLMERT AND STAY IN KADIMA GOVERNMENT.
2. POLICEMAN AND SECURITY GUARD MODERATELY-TO-SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN SEPARATION FENCE SHOOTING ATTACK IN JERUSALEM.
3. FIVE PRIZES FOR TWO ISRAELI FILMS AT CANNES.
Eran Kolirin’s The Band’s Visit wins three prizes. Etgar Karet’s and Shira Gefen’s Jellyfish receives two prizes.
MAKOR RISHON-HATZOFEH
1. TWO SECURITY GUARDS SEVERELY WOUNDED IN JERUSALEM AREA SHOOTING ATTACK.
Terrorists killed. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades unit claims responsibility.
2. Goal to strengthen Abu Mazen in Judea and Samaria at Hamas’s expense.
IDF ALLOWS ABU MAZEN’S POLICE FORCES TO OPERATE IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA VILLAGES.
3. YAALON: WAR IN LEBANON AND SITUATION IN SDEROT – RESULT OF DISENGAGEMENT.
Says that there is no alternative to wide-ranging ground operation in Gaza.
4. AYALON’S CONFIDANTS: HE PREFERS TO SERVE AS DEFENSE MINISTER UNDER OLMERT IF HE IS ELECTED.
Barak wants decision in first round: His chances are worse in second round.
MA’ARIV
1. Serious claims of improper deeds ahead of primaries.
EXCHANGE OF ACCUSATIONS IN LABOR: „BUYING VOTES WITH MONEY.”
Day before labor primaries, battle turns especially ugly. One of the candidates: „One contender offered me money if I would quit.” Senior official at another candidate’s HQ: „There will be police investigations here.”
2. HAMAS THREATENS: WE WILL MAKE SHALIT DISAPPEAR.
Following attacks in Gaza, organization says: „Israel can only dream about the abducted soldier.”
3. ISRAELI CELEBRATIONS AT CANNES FESTIVAL.
Films The Band’s Visit and Jellyfish capture five prizes.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Weekend: Sixteen Kassams. IDF steps up attacks in Gaza Strip.
1,000 RESIDENTS RETURN TO SDEROT.
(…). IDF receives approval to expand ground actions.
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Makor Rishon-Hatzofeh favors the candidacy of MK Ami Ayalon in tomorrow’s Labor Party leadership contest. The editors argue that Ehud Barak’s experience is cancelled out by his record. The editors also state their preference for an Ayalon-led Labor Party that would opt for early elections.
Yediot Ahronot suggests that, the experience of MK Ami Ayalon is about equal to that of Ehud Barak when he first ran for the Labor Party leadership in 1997, and that the results of Barak’s performance in office left much to be desired. The editors foresee a Labor vs. Likud 2008 election battle, with Kadima almost certainly out of the picture.
Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, says that the Israel Police acted according to the letter of the law by permitting the Gay Pride Parade to be held in Jerusalem next month. But the also editors remind us of the special symbolic status that Jerusalem holds for religious and non-religious alike and advises the organizers to take those feelings into consideration and to cancel the Jerusalem parade.
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