SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS

 

1. GALANT TO STATE COMPTROLLER: I DID NOT AGREE WITH BARAK THAT WE WOULD ATTACK IRAN.

Galant’s testimony in Harpaz document affair contradicts claim that Barak favored his appointment [as IDF Chief-of-Staff] in order to prepare for attack on nuclear installations.

 

2. TODAY: KATSAV TO BEGIN SERVING HIS SENTENCE FOR SEX CRIMES.

 

3. [ATTORNEY GENERAL] WEINSTEIN TO NETANYAHU: NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS LAW CONTRAVENES FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN ISRAEL.

 

1. FROM PRESIDENT TO PRISONER.

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1. (…).

PRISONER.

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1. (…).

TO JAIL.

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2. ATTORNEY GENERAL TO NETANYAHU: I WILL NOT DEFEND NON-PROFIT ASSOCIATIONS LAW BEFORE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.

Weinstein: Law „tainted with unconstitutionality.” MK Kirschenbaum: He did not refer to revised version of the law.

 

1. BEHIND BARS: MOSHE KATSAV ENTERS MASIYAHU PRISON.

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1. KATSAV ENTERS MASIYAHU PRISON (…).

 

2. IDF ATTACKS IN GAZA: PALESTINIANS REPORT ONE PERSON KILLED AND FIVE WOUNDED.

 

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Yediot Ahronot reminds its readers that, „Two days ago, the OECD, which Israel joined two years ago, published another study about inequality in the world,” and adds that, „Israel, as usual, starred as a country in which the gaps widened especially quickly in the past decade.” The author says that Trajtenberg report’s tax provisions, including extra income tax credit points, which the Knesset recently passed into law, will do little to help the poorest, many of whom do not pay income tax and hence will not benefit from the extra points. The paper declares that, „The ‘reforms’, the ‘lowering of costs’ and the ‘benefits’ that the Knesset, the Government and the Prime Minister’s Office are being so generous with will not help to reduce poverty or inequality.”

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Two papers comment on the fact that former president – and convicted sex offender – Moshe Katsav will begin serving his prison sentence today:

 

Ma’ariv asserts that, „Former president Katsav’s entry into prison will be a sad day for Israelis but a badge of honor for the state and its system of laws.”

 

Yisrael Hayom is troubled by what it perceives as a tendency for those in high positions, and their supporters, to claim special status for themselves even as they seek to erode the status of the courts.