SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS

 

1. NETANYAHU GOVERNMENT WORKING TO LAUNDER CONSTRUCTION IN OUTPOSTS

Under pressure from settlers and Likud ministers, Netanyahu orders establishment of team to authorize outposts that were built on private Palestinian land. Minister Livnat: „Goal is to consider how – not if – to provide for their status.”

 

2. 350 medical residents do not show up for work; severe blow to hospitals.

HOSPITAL DIRECTORS: „WE ARE ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE, WE CANNOT HOLD ON”

 

1. HANGING UP THE SCRUBS

340 doctors resign. Severe overcrowding at hospitals. Operations for cancer patients postponed.

 

1. Night discussion to avoid hospital collapse.

IN CRITICAL CONDITION

(…).

 

2. NOT LEAVING THE SQUARE

Sixteen years after Rabin murder: Memorial rally to be held at traditional site.

 

1. JUDGE TO MEDICAL RESIDENTS: „SHOW RESPONSIBILITY”

Discussion into the night on state’s request for restraining orders against medical residents; 387 have already resigned. (…). PM’s proposal: Wage increment for those who work only in public sector.

 

1. SHALIT ACTIVISTS PREVENT VISIT BY PALESTINIAN PRISONERS’ RELATIVES

Activists bodily block bus with Palestinians who sought to visit their relatives in Shata Prison in the north. (…).

 

2. NETANYAHU: „READY TO MEET WITH ABU MAZEN UNCONDITIONALLY”

 

1. SHALIT ACTIVISTS BLOCK BUSES IN THE NORTH

Activists block families of Palestinian prisoners and demand that prisoners not receive treatment that Shalit does not receive.

 

2. NATANYAHU RESPONDS TO ASHTON: „I WOULD BE HAPPY TO MEET WITH ABU MAZEN”

 

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Yediot Ahronot questions the rationale behind the Finance Ministry’s annual report on public sector salaries, which was issued yesterday, and asserts that, „The report does not deal with the most important issue of all: What is the policy and how is it being implemented? The reason: The Government has no policy on salaries worth being reported.” In this vein, the author comments on the crisis in public sector medicine: „Everyone knows that there is a severe problem regarding salaries in the medical sector, especially for doctors, especially for young doctors. The doctors’ agreement cost capital merely to buy off the top echelon, which, in any case, makes its living from private practice. The organizing by residents is a badge of honor for doctors who told the Government and their professional leadership ‘Enough.'”

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Two papers discuss various issues regarding the Sukkot holiday, which begins tomorrow night:

 

Ma’ariv discusses the recent spate of ‘price tag’ actions and asserts that, „Those who burn mosques and desecrate graves take us back to the days before the establishment of the state. They damage our ethics as Zionists and Jews.” The author says that, since „Sukkot has many universal elements,” we, „now have an excellent opportunity to unite left and right, religious and secular, and declare that these lunatics have no place among us.”

 

Yisrael Hayom notes that during Sukkot, the Book of Ecclesiastes is read in synagogues. The author notes that, „On Sukkot, we are commanded to rejoice, but the custom is also to read Ecclesiastes, which instills one with a sense of despair. This paradox reflects the complex nature of life in general and Jewish life in particular. We cannot paint everything in black-and-white.” The author also believes that commandment to dwell in a rickety booth instills empathy with the less fortunate in that, „We leave our luxury apartments replete with Italian marble, Swedish furniture, a Jacuzzi and a top-storey view, and move – for a time – to a temporary dwelling on the ground, the ground of reality.”