SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS

 

1. GIANT DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST PUTIN: TENS OF THOUSANDS DEMAND NEW ELECTIONS

(…).

 

2. Four Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip.

20 ROCKETS FIRED FROM GAZA STRIP AT ISRAEL OVER THE WEEKEND

 

3. PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATOR KILLED BY FIRING OF TEAR GAS CANISTER AT SHORT RANGE

 

2. NOBEL PRIZE AWARDED TO PROF. SHECHTMAN

 

1. TENTH NOBEL PRIZE FOR AN ISRAELI AWARDED TO PROF. DAN SHECHTMAN

 

2. GILAD SHALIT: „I WILL BE GRATEFUL TO YOU FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE”

In first public remarks since his return, Shalit thanked the hundreds of activists who worked for his release. (…).

 

1. Prof. Dan Shechtman, 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner.

„WE MUST ENCOURAGE EDUCATED YOUTH. LET US PROMOTE THE SCIENCES AND THUS CREATE A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL”

 

2. „I WILL BE GRATEFUL FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE”

The smile is back: Gilad Shalit thanks activists who struggled on his behalf.

 

1. (…).

RESPECT AND PRIDE

(…).

 

2. „THE PALESTINIANS – AN INVENTED PEOPLE”

Thus declared Newt Gingrich, leading Republican candidate for US President. Outrage in Ramallah: „Severe remark.”

 

1. VOICES IN THE CABINET: CONSIDER MILITARY ACTION IN THE GAZA STRIP

Against background of round of violence between Israel and the Palestinians in the south, several ministers claim that possibility of ground response must be considered. (…).

 

2. AFTER FIVE ROCKETS IN THE PAST DAY, IDF ATTACKS IN THE GAZA STRIP

In response to rockets in the south, Air Force attacked weapons manufacturing site in the northern Gaza Strip. Earlier, Kassam rocket exploded in Eshkol Regional Council area; not damage.

 

1. NETANYAHU ON PROBLEM OF INFILTRATORS: „THIS IS A NATIONAL ISSUE”

 

2. ADDITIONAL ROCKET EXPLODES IN ESHKOL REGIONAL COUNCIL AREA

Last night: Gaza Strip terrorist organizations launched additional rocket at open area in Eshkol Regional Council area. No damage; no casualties.

 

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Yediot Ahronot says that, „In far away Stockholm the temperatures are diving toward 0Celsius, but Professor Dan Shechtman yesterday supplied many warm moments to the citizens of the State of Israel, as well as to the Jewish People throughout the Diaspora. And why hide it? Twenty-two percent of all prize winners until today have been Jews. And the anti-Semites can go to hell.”

 

Ma’ariv professes that, „Governments do not like criticism. They especially do not like claims regarding human rights under their jurisdiction. But openness to criticism and the willingness to accept it are requisites for democracy – even when it is burning and painful. To filch some of the money which has been contributed to organizations, the mission of which is to criticize governments’ human rights records, and then to institute a special tax on those contributions in order to transfer some of them to the criticized body – is an idea which borders on the absurd. Only a government which is afraid of human rights could contemplate support of such a move.”

 

Yisrael Hayom notes that, „The death last week of the journalist Nakdimon Rogel, one of the founders of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, returned to the public debate the recollection of the document which he authored, with the modest and minimalist title, ‘Guidelines for Coverage of News and Current Affairs’. A guide, not a directive. This composition was only one aspect of Rogel’s work. Rogel, known as Nakdi, was, first and foremost, an authority.” The author believes that, „In all likelihood, the use of the Nakdi document’s principles by contemporary journalists would filter the legislative fervor in the Knesset regarding journalism.”