SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS

 

1. ARMY WAS WARNED ABOUT SETTLERS’ INTENTION TO BREAK INTO WEST BANK BASES

(…). They set upon Ephraim Brigade CO’s car and wounded his deputy. In additional incident, dozens of rioters broke into Ephraim Brigade base. Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrahi: „Such hatred of soldiers by Jews I have not seen in my 30 years of service.”

 

2. FEW ACHIEVEMENTS FOR POLICE FOR POLICE TEAM IN STRUGGLE AGAINST PRICE-TAG

 

3. FINANCE MINISTRY TO RAISE TAXES ON TOBACCO PRODUCTS IN ORDER TO FINANCE TRAJTENBERG REPORT

 

1. RED LINES HAVE BEEN CROSSED

40 right-wingers broke into Ephraim Brigade base and threw rocks at Brigade CO and his deputy. Chief-of-Staff: „IDF, which defends the people, found itself having to defend itself from them.” GOC Central Command: „I have not seen such hatred toward IDF soldiers by Jews.”

 

2. MOSHE ZAR: THIS IS A BUNCH OF HOTHEADS THAT ONLY HURTS US

Man who established Ramat Gilad disavows actions of hilltop youth.

 

3. MUGHRABI BRIDGE TO BE REOPENED

Compromise that ended the crisis: Bridge from Temple Mount to Western Wall Plaza will be renovated.

 

1. Hilltop terrorism: Right-wingers wound Brigade Deputy CO.

„I TOOK A STONE IN THE HEAD BUT AS THE GRANDSON OF A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, IT HURT ME WORSE THAT THEY CALLED ME A NAZI”

In wake of hilltop youth rampage at IDF base, generals warn: „Today they are beating officers, tomorrow they will shoot.” Last night: Masked individuals prepared for outpost evacuation.

 

2. NETANYAHU HAS NO TIME FOR THE CEREMONY FOR THOSE KILLED IN THE CARMEL WILDFIRE

Families outraged: PM announced that he will not arrive „due to workload.”

 

1. Netanyahu: „They have gone too far”; apparent: Rioters to be defined as „terrorists.”

STOP THEM!

The shock: „Such hatred of soldiers by Jews I have not seen in my 30 years of service,” said GOC Central Command. The absurdity: „The army that defends its people found itself having to defend itself from them,” said the Chief-of-Staff. The insult: They called the Brigade Deputy Commander „Nazi.” The investigation: PM orders that legal proceedings be exhausted against lawbreakers: „We will defeat this evil blight.”

 

1. CONCERN IN IDF: „SOLDIERS PASSING INFORMATION TO EXTREME RIGHT.”

Central Command refuses to calm down following incident in which right-wing activists infiltrated into Ephraim Brigade base.

 

2. SECOND TIER SHALIT DEAL PRISONERS: INVOLVED IN SHOOTING AND SUICIDE ATTACKS

 

1. CONDEMNATIONS FOLLOWING MOSQUE VANDALISM: „PART OF WILD WAVE OF VIOLENCE WHICH HARMED IDF OFFICERS”

Members from all shades of the political spectrum hurried to condemn attempted arson and graffiti attack in Jerusalem.

 

2. TWO BILLS TO SAVE DEAD SEA AND ITS TOURISM APPROVED IN PRELIMINARY READING

 

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All three articles relate to yesterday’s assault by extreme right wing elements on Israel Defense Forces personnel:

 

Yediot Ahronot says that, „We must remember that a ‘noxious weed’ once murdered the Prime Minister. If I were called Benjamin Netanyahu, I would fear for my life – whoever threw a block at the head of a deputy division commander in the first round, will open fire in the third.”

 

Ma’ariv believes that, „A very bad wind is blowing through the country. A bus unloads dozens at an army base, and they hasten to throw a block at a division commander, only because he is supposed to, in some foggy time in the future, to fulfill the directives of the law.” The author opines that, „This is the heyday of the most extreme ultra-orthodox, the most extreme of the rioting hilltop youth, the most extreme MKs and also, and this is called for, Israel’s most extreme enemies, internal and external. And Netanyahu? Present-absent.”

 

Yisrael Hayom declares that, „Hundreds of thousands of Israelis in Judea and Samaria relate to the anarchists exactly as do the rest of the [country’s] citizens – as a dangerous group which must be dealt with immediately. The heads of the Yesha Council again condemn these acts. The IDF is us, and any harm to it is harm to us all.”