HEADLINES

HEBREW PRESS


HA’ARETZ
1. (…).
SENIOR CRIMINAL ATTORNEY ELIMINATED IN TEL AVIV.
(…).
2. HEZBOLLAH PLANNING TO AVENGE MUGHNIYEH HIT.
3. Ofra rabbi: Possible to build on the Sabbath in order to move into homes before High Court of Justice ruling.
NEW CONSTRUCTION IN SETTLEMENTS – OVERRIDES THE SABBATH.
4. HISTADRUT THREATENS GENERAL STRIKE.
In response to decision to cancel tax exemption for training funds.
MA’ARIV
1. Was elite attorney eliminated due to dispute with oligarch over money and woman?
STREET JUSTICE.
(…).
2. CONSIDERING NOT COMING.
Effect of political crisis: Sarkozy likely not to come to Israel at the end of the month.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. (…).
KATSAV JUDGES PLANNED TO SEND HIM TO JAIL.
(…).
2. LAWYER ELIMINATED.
(…).
3. THE DECREE: TAX ON TRAINING FUNDS. THE BENEFIT: GRADUAL LOWERING OF INCOME TAX.
Finance Minister declares reform and angers the Histadrut into threatening a general strike.
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Yediot Ahronot mourns the passing of late Egyptian, „gentleman statesman,” Dr. Mustafa Khalil, „The peace engineer”. The editors eulogize him as, „An active partner in the two-sided struggle for the [Israeli-Egyptian peace] treaty. He was the ‘good’ guy behind the secret dealings. Due to his common sense, easy manner and determination to achieve peace, which did not wane over the years, he succeeded in extinguishing conflagrations, and in cooling tensions, which flared up during the discussions”. The paper bids, „Shalom, true friend”.
Ma’ariv asks, „Where has British fairness disappeared to?” and contends that, „Israel is subject to a campaign of de-legitimization, demonization and moral double standards… in which extremist elements have taken control of the British debate over Israel”. The editors call on the British public, „To remove the radical fringes’ monopoly on the British-Israel debate. The time has come for the silent majority to have its say…”
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