HA’ARETZ 1. EUROPEAN SOURCES: CONDITIONS FOR RESUMPTION OF NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND PALESTINIANS AGREED UPON.
HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS HA’ARETZ 1. EUROPEAN SOURCES: CONDITIONS FOR RESUMPTION OF NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND PALESTINIANS AGREED UPON. Today: PM going to Cairo to meet Egyptian President Mubarak. Ha’aretz told that contacts between Jerusalem and Ramallah will be resumed next month on basis of understanding that an independent Palestinian state will be established on the West Bank within two years. 2. PRESIDENT PERES COLLAPSES DURING TEL AVIV EVENT; IS IN GOOD CONDITION. 3. FILM „LEBANON” WINS GOLDEN LION PRIZE AT VENICE FESRTIVAL. Direct Shmulik Maoz’s film is first Israeli film to win the top prize at the prestigious international festival. MA’ARIV 1. President, last night: „I’m fine. Don’t worry about me. It was only a bit of weakness.” HE COLLAPSED. President, 86, lost consciousness for ten seconds at Rabin Center last night. After recovering, Peres was hospitalized at Tel Hashomer where he will stay at least until this morning. 2. VICTORY FOR „LEBANON.” Historic achievement for Israeli cinema: Shmulik Maoz’s film „Lebanon” wins „Golden Lion” at Venice Festival. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. President faints at Rabin Center event. PERES FAINTS AND RECOVERS. Peres, 86, lost consciousness and recovered during speech. In seconds, he was back on his feet. He was eventually persuaded to go to hospital. „All tests on him – fine.” YISRAEL HAYOM 1. President hospitalized for tests at Sheba; „His situation is fine.” PERES FAINTS AND RECOVERS. President collapses at Rabin Center conference. Recovered immediately and stood up on his feet. Refused to be evacuated to hospital but was eventually compelled to spend the night at Sheba. Peres (86) has more intensive daily agenda than those younger than him. „Will return to President’s residence in Jerusalem today.” 2. VENICE IS OURS: FIRST PRIZE TO „LEBANON” AT FILM FESTIVAL. Film tells about tank crew on first day of Lebanon war. Director Shmulik Maoz: „This is a dream.” GLOBES 1. FOREIGNERS INDIFFERENT TO FISHER’S INTERVENTION: MORGAN STANLEY AND BARCLAY’S PREDICT DOLLAR’S COLLAPSE AGAINST THE SHEKEL. Morgan Stanley adjusts growth forecasts for Israel and is the only one that predicts positive growth this year. „Struggle to prevent shekel’s appreciation is doomed,” being said at Morgan Stanley after meetings with senior Bank of Israel and Finance Ministry officials. Morgan estimates: Dollar will drop 10% to NIS 3.38. Barclay’s: „Bullish on the shekel.” WALLA! 1. PERES RECOVERS AND WILL MEET WITH MITCHELL. President released this morning from Sheba Hospital after fainting last night at Rabin Center event in Tel Aviv. President’s residence: „Peres insists on going back to work this morning and will meet with the American envoy.” NANA10 1. PERES RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL, WILL MEET WITH MITCHELL THIS AFTERNOON. (…). Doctors update that his situation is excellent and that he is expected to meet American Middle East envoy as planned. [Headlines for Globes, Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:25] ______________________________ SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot commemorates the sixteenth anniversary of the Oslo Accords. The author asks rhetorically, „Who will miss it the most?” and answers, „Those who cried out bitterly 16 years ago and from within the ranks of which came the Prime Minister’s assassin.” Ma’ariv argues that, „After half a year in the post the picture is becoming clear: The new Netanyahu is the old Shamir.” The author maintains that, „Shamir was the prime minister on whose name one can patent, ‘He who does nothing, doesn’t anger anyone.’ Netanyahu took this patent and improved upon it.” Yisrael Hayom also notes the sixteenth anniversary of the Oslo Accords. The author opines that, „1,500 Israelis have paid with their lives for the hallucinatory adventure of the Oslo Accords. The problem is that it is uncertain whether we have learned anything.” Walla maintains that, „Whoever supports the continuation of settlement construction, not evacuating outposts and the diplomatic gridlock is the left of the left, left of Hadash and close to Balad. Yes, yes – Moshe Ya’alon is a devoted leftist, as well as Hotovelli, Feiglin, Begin and the rest of the Likud. Why? Because whoever refuses to divide the land into two countries, will ultimately bring about one country for two people. The process will happen incrementally – slowly the Palestinians will see the advantage in rejecting the establishment of a country, and the economic relations from Netanyahu’s ‘economic peace’ will continue to improve. Security will improve and then feeling of closeness between the [two] people will grow from the necessity of circumstances which placed us together in the same pot.” BreuerPress.info
