SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

 

1. DOCTORS COMMITTEES: CANCEL WAGE AGREEMENT WITH THE FINANCE MINISTRY

Doctors’ committees at four hospitals threatening to sue Israel Medical Association if their appeal is not responded to within four days.

 

1. SEPTEMBER IS ALREADY HERE

18 days left until move to recognize Palestinian state at UNGA (…).

 

2. MEDICAL RESIDENTS WHO WERE FORCED TO RETURN TO WORK BEGIN HUNGER STRIKE

 

3. TEL AVIV AND JERUSALEM – FOLDING UP TENTS; PERIPHERY – DETERMINATION TO STAY

 

1. Senior doctors join medical residents’ struggle.

DOCTORS’ ULTIMATUM

The threat: We will quit Israel Medical Association and set up another organization unless IMA Chairman Eidelman does not resign within 48 hours. Demands to reopen agreement he signed with the Finance Ministry.

 

2. STOCK EXCHANGE NOSEDIVES

Experts: Response to disappointing US employment figures.

 

3. CONCERN: MISSILES AGAINST PASSENGER PLANES

Cabinet discusses installation of defensive systems on Israeli civilian planes.

 

1. DOCTORS TO EIDELMAN: CANCEL AGREEMENT

Last night: Doctors’ committees at several hospitals present Israel Medical Association Chairman with ultimatum. Medical residents not giving up: After labor court ruled that mass resignation was illegal – they resigned again, one by one. Residents at Sheba Medical Center open hunger strike.

 

2. FOLDING UP

After great demonstration – waiting for the committee. Prof. Trajtenberg meets with Barak; will propose significant cut in security budget.

 

3. THE CONCERN: FLIGHTS TO EILAT TARGETED

Cabinet discussed possibility of protecting all TA-Eilat civilian flights from Al-Qaida surface-to-air missiles.

 

1. ISRAELIS WHO FLEW TO TURKEY: „WE WERE HUMILIATED AT THE AIRPORT”

Group of 40 Israeli businesspeople who arrived at Istanbul airport claiming that police concentrated them in terminal corner, took their passports without explanation and were released only 1.5 hours later. „We felt like we were in a ghetto.”

 

2. APPEAL BY SENIOR HAMAS TERRORIST WHO PLANNED PARK HOTEL ATTACK REJECTED

Abbas Al-Sid, who was sentenced to 35 life terms plus another 50 years over his involvement in 2002 Netanya terrorist attack, and [2005] attack at Sharon Mall, sought to appeal his sentence on grounds that his confession was extracted by torture.

 

3. SUSPECTED „PRICE TAG”: MOSQUE TORCHED IN NABLUS AREA VILLAGE

Mosque sprayed with slogans in Hebrew, windows smashed and tires slashed. At same time, Palestinians reported that stones were thrown at their vehicles. Suspected response to evacuation of structures at Migron outpost last night.

 

4. „IF TURKEY PATROLS IN THE AREA, THERE WILL BE GRAVE CONSEQUENCES”

Senior IDF source relates to Turkish threats in wake of deterioration in relations between Jerusalem and Ankara. Security establishment makes it clear that already last year preparations were made for chill in bilateral relations and halt to cooperation.

 

1. 40 ISRAELIS LANDED IN TURKEY AND WERE INVESTIGATED: „THEY FORCED US TO UNDRESS DOWN TO OUR UNDERWEAR”

Dozens of Israeli passengers who landed in Istanbul on two Turkish Airlines flights said that they were delayed by local police, passports were taken and they were interrogated. One passenger reported that Foreign Ministry has begun inquiry with the Turks.

 

2. „PRICE TAG” FOR MIGRON? „MOSQUE TORCHED IN NABLUS”

Hours after demolition of three permanent structures in Migron outpost, Palestinians report that mosque near Nablus was torched and vandalized. Also reported that settlers threw stones at vehicles near Yitzhar.

 

3. APPEAL BY PLANNER OF PARK HOTEL TERRORIST ATTACK REJECTED

Abbas A-Said, head of Hamas military wing in Tulkarm, serving 35 life terms. (…).

 

4. „DISPUTE WITH ISRAEL TO HURT STRUGGLE AGAINST THE KURDS”

Security experts in Turkey claiming that concern over deterioration in relations with Israel is raising concern over bilateral weapons deals that have already been signed.

 

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Yediot Ahronot remarks that, „No one in the Israeli Government can say that he was surprised. Turkey warned over and over again what would happen if an Israeli apology was not forthcoming. Israel had every right not to apologize – but now it must cope with the results. The punch is hard and painful, but we took it wholeheartedly.”

 

Ma’ariv notes that, „September has already arrived.” The author contends that, „The Palestinian agenda will play out in October, in which the [Jewish] holidays will fall. Thus, this year the saying ‘after the holidays’ will have a whole new meaning.”

 

Yisrael Hayom says that, „Long before the publication of the Palmer Report and the prior leaks of its contents, the real reason for Turkey’s demand that Israel apologize and its request to delay the report was obvious. Already then it was clear that the Palmer report unilaterally accepted Israel’s claim regarding the legality of the maritime blockade on Gaza, and even determined that Turkey did not do enough to prevent the participation of the extremists on board the Mavi Marmara. Turkey understood that after the report’s publication, there would be no chance of extracting an apology from Israel, and they opened a diplomatic offensive.” The author concludes that, „The Palmer Report sheds light upon the extreme isolation to which Erdogan has navigated Turkey. Only continued diplomatic pressure on Ankara will bring about a change of policy and, in the long term, an improvement in relations with Israel as well.”