SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS

 

1. TNUVA REVEALS SPIKE IN PROFITS; BOYCOTT THREAT AGAINST STRAUSS, OSEM AND TELMA

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2. [ISRAEL] DEPUTY AMBASSADOR TO US DISMISSED DUE TO SECURITY INFORMATION LEAK

 

1. WHILE NORTH WAS BURNING POLICE COMMISSIONER AND SENIOR POLICE COMMANDERS WERE OUT ENJOYING THEMSELVES

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2. FOLLOWING ISA INVESTIGATION: DEPUTY AMBASSADOR TO US DISMISSED

 

1. Chief-of-Staff:

„WE MUST ALWAYS ACT AS IF THERE WILL BE WAR TOMORROW”

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2. HANAN PORAT: PASSING OF SETTLER #1

 

1. (…).

PM TO MEDICAL RESIDENTS: WAIT A FEW DAYS

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2. ASSAD: IF WEST ATTACKS ME, I WILL LAUNCH HUNDREDS OF MISSILES AGAINST TEL AVIV

 

3. HANAN PORAT 1943-2011

Former MK… (…).

 

1. ISRAELI DANIEL SHECHTMAN WINS NOBEL CHEMISTRY PRIZE

 

2. IDF: HEZBOLLAH IS LYING, IT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATH OF REGEV AND GOLDWASSER

 

3. DIPLOMATS: „PALESTINIANS WILL REQUEST UNESCO UPGRADE”

 

1. PRIDE OF ISRAEL: TECHNION PROF. DANIEL SHECHTMAN – NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE IN CHEMISTRY

 

2. IDF SPOKESPERSON ON LEBANESE REPORT: A LIE – HEZBOLLAH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATHS OF GOLDWASSER AND REGEV

 

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Yediot Ahronot discusses the arson at the mosque in Tuba Zangaria and asserts that, „The mosque arson and the increasing number of ‘price tag’ incidents must lead the Prime Minister, Defense Minister and others to the conclusion that they must act as strongly and as brutally as possible against the people that are liable to lead us to the edge of disaster.” The author urges that the use of administrative detention orders be considered and says that, „If Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and their colleagues in government, the security establishment, the ISA and the Israel Police don’t wake up and take strong action, they will find ‘price tag’ people outside their homes and offices.”

 

Ma’ariv discusses the state of Israeli-German relations and contends that the statement on renewed construction in Gilo was a slap in the face to German Chancellor Angela Merkel after her efforts to blunt the Palestinian initiative at the UN. The author, a former Israeli Ambassador to Germany, fears that support for Israel among the German public may erode as a result.

 

Yisrael Hayom believes that the Obama administration, „has decided to disengage – at least until after November 2012 – from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as far as raising new diplomatic initiatives and leading the negotiations are concerned.” The author avers that, „The fact that the US is entering election season obliges the 44^th President, whose position among the Jewish public has been gradually eroding over the past two years, to make an effort to minimize the electoral damage that awaits him in this area.” However, the paper is concerned lest the American stepping back from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, along with the projected withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, will lead to a vacuum that some other actor might be tempted to fill.