SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS

 

1. MINISTERS APPROVE TRAJTENBERG RECOMMENDATIONS; PROTEST LEADERS PREPARING TO RESUME STRUGGLE

Netanyahu promised hundreds of millions of shekels to meet Liberman’s demands and Yisrael Beytenu ministers voted in favor of report. (…).

 

2. DOCTORS BREAK OFF NEGOTIATIONS WITH FINANCE MINISTRY; THEIR RESIGNATIONS TO TAKE EFFECT TONIGHT

 

3. Worst clashes since the revolution.

19 KILLED IN ETHNIC CLASHES IN CENTRAL CAIRO

 

1. NEGOTIATIONS WITH DOCTORS BROKEN OFF

Hundreds of medical residents intend to resign at hospitals today. State asks labor court for injunction. Even PM’s intervention fails to resolve the crisis.

 

2. Cabinet approves Trajtenberg report.

GRANTS TO SOLDIERS, APARTMENTS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS

Series of promises to Yisrael Beytenu, worth hundreds of millions of shekels, helped Netanyahu pass report on second attempt. Security budget to be cut.

 

3. CAIRO IS BURNING.

 

1. Cabinet approves Trajtenberg report. Chief-of-Staff:

„WHERE WILL WE MAKE CUTS, FROM IRON DOME?”

Gantz warns ministers against deep security cut. [Finance Minister] Steinitz: „Don’t try to frighten us, the IDF has no fat?” Thus Netanyahu secured majority: Promises to Liberman and commitment to additional Cabinet approval.

 

2. THIS IS HOW THE GOVERNMENT TREATS YOM KIPPUR WAR FALLEN.

No minister attends memorial ceremony at Kiryat Shaul cemetery [in Tel Aviv] and bereaved families were outraged: „Shame and disgrace.”

 

3. MEDICAL RESIDENTS THREATENING: WE WILL NOT REPORT TO HOSPITALS TODAY.

 

1. MEDICAL RESIDENTS: TODAY IS THE LAST CHANCE.

Negotiations broken off. Today: Will doctors resign?

 

2. Victory for Netanyahu: Trajtenberg report passes, 21-8.

„I PROMISED, I DELIVERED”

PM: Report is good for Israelis, will lower cost of living. Agreed with Liberman on changes, including: Doubling of grant to discharged soldiers, to NIS 20,000. Protest leaders: We will resume demonstrations.

 

3. CHIEF-OF-STAFF: MUST NOT CUT; PM: MY RESPONSIBILITY

Chief-of-Staff explains to ministers his stand against defense cut: „Liable to be dangerous in period of uncertainty.” Netanyahu: I am personally responsible for citizens’ security.

 

1. MEDICAL RESIDENTS: „WE HAVE DECIDED TO RESIGN. THERE IS A LIMIT”

 

2. PALESTINIAN PRISONERS TO STOP DRINKING: „SA’ADAT IS IN BAD SHAPE”

PA Prisoners Minister says that prisoners will intensify their hunger strike. (…).

 

3. AHEAD OF OUTPOST EVACUATIONS, PRESSURE ON NETANYAHU FROM WITHIN THE LIKUD

Security establishment intends to evacuate four large illegal outposts in the coming six months. Ruling party MKs, including from among Netanyahu’s people, make it clear: „We will not be loyal to Government that evacuates Jews.”

 

4. VIOLENT DEMONSTRATION BY COPTS IN EGYPT: 24 KILLED

 

1. MEDICAL RESIDENTS: „THEY TREATED US LIKE CRIMINALS – WE HAVE DECIDED TO RESIGN TODAY”

(…).

 

2. EU TO BRING ISRAEL AND PA TOGETHER

Catherine Ashton announces that EU intends to summon Israel and Palestinians in coming days in order to discuss advancing peace talks.

 

3. PROTEST REURNING TO THE STREETS: FOUR MARCHES SATURDAY NIGHT

Struggle leaders respond to Cabinet approval of Trajtenberg report and are organizing several events for Sukkot. (…).

 

4. CAIRO BURNING: DEATHS IN CLASHES BETWEEN COPTS AND SOLDIERS

 

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Yediot Ahronot refers to the ‘Price Tag’ phenomena and contends that, „It’s not a ‘tag’ and it’s not a ‘price’. We’re talking about Jewish terrorists. These criminals – the arsonists, those who uproot trees and spray graffiti – we must make their lives hell.”

 

Ma’ariv says that, „Whoever hasn’t noticed, in the past days an aggressive campaign is being waged by the Defense Ministry and the IDF, over the heads of the Israeli public. Since the Trajtenberg Committee report was submitted, the Defense Ministry has unsheathed all of its heaviest weapons – and has gone to war.” The author argues that, „The contention according to which a cut in the [defense] budget will harm Israel’s security is deliberate deceit. The system’s fat must be trimmed.”

 

Yisrael Hayom believes that, „Like in every year in October, the ritual of retrograde analysis of the Yom Kippur War repeats itself. How we were unprepared, how we did not know, did not properly prepare and were caught with our pants down.” The author contends that, „We will never be ready for something that has not yet happened. But, in the opening stage of any war there must be a broad attack upon the enemy’s entire civilian infrastructure, on the regime’s leaders… We must hit their vocal heroes directly. No righteous leader or dispatcher of suicide attackers has ever sent his own sons. We will be told, and what about the laws of war? Well then, the world will condemn us in any case. That is our situation in the international arena, and at the moment it is not important how we got there insofar as the rules apply only to us. Good and wise people will ask if we want to be like them. The answer is no. But the basic instinct, the primary instinct for survival, that was here before us and will remain here afterwards, is not aware of the fact that people have written papers limiting its influence, and if it did know – it would laugh. Political correctness is as important as straw. The strong will continue to dictate rules to the weak, and the instinct to survive will remain intact. Whoever does not understand that is warping reality. The world will condemn us? Certainly in the short term; the long term depends upon the results. The world admires winners and abuses losers.”