HA’ARETZ
1. BARAK’S NEW POLICY: SERIAL OUTPOST BUILDERS TO FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES.
Currently 55 complaints against right activists who settled in illegal outpost.
2. HAMAS IN CONTACTS WITH GAZA STRIP SPLINTER GROUPS TO HALT SHOOTING.
3. NEW TENDORS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF 440 EAST JERUSALEM RESIDENTIAL UNITS AND GILO NEIGHBORHOOD HOTEL.
MA’ARIV
1. SENIOR IDF SOURCE ACCUSES: „OLMERT EVADING RESPONSIBILITY.”
Source explains: „If Olmert is weak and unable to decide „blood on hands” definition, that’s his problem. He’s involving military in field which belongs to political realm.
2. Twenty percent of Nitzan caravan families in need of food donations.
GUSH KATIF EVACUEES’ SHAME OF HUNGER.
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3. QUIETLY: SEA OF GALILEE EMPTYING.
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YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Economy grew by 5.3%, investments up 18%, stock exchange climbed 32%, and exports grew by 8%. Security – Number killed in terrorist attacks lowest in seven years. ROADS –Traffic accidents deaths throughout country lowest in 40 years.
THE GOOD YEAR.
The good news: Final data of outgoing year indicates: 2007 was success.
2. AND BAD NEWS AS WELL: SEA OF GALILEE LEVEL LOWEST IN FIVE YEARS.
Yediot Ahronot complains about what it refers to as the „infantilism” of the Israeli political system, which is expecting, like children awaiting a kindergarten teacher to send home a child who has misbehaved, the publication of the final Winograd Committee report. „They are certain that it is not their responsibility, even though they receive a salary to use their heads and to safeguard the public interests.”
Ma’ariv believes it important that the Likud follow through with its reported intentions to reinstate to its Central Committee the authority to choose its party’s Knesset members and ministers. This, the editors contend, will return to the political echelons, the power which, due to its weakness and inadequacy, has been eroded from it by the country’s bureaucracy.
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