HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ
1. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE JUDGES INVALIDATE TAL LAW: NOT EQUAL, NOT PROPORTIONAL, NOT CONSTITUTIONAL
Decade after it was legislated, the Supreme Court ruled that the law, which postpones service for the ultra-orthodox, cannot be extended. Judge Grunis sides with the minority.
2. RIFT IN NETANYAHU’S BUREAU: PM ASKS HENDEL TO POSTPONE HIS RESIGNATION
Netanyahu rebukes senior aides who exposed Eshel affair for not updating him: „I have lost confidence in you.”
MA’ARIV
1. Historic decision by Supreme Court judges. Upheaval in political establishment.
HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE OVERTURNS TAL LAW: „NOT EQUAL”
Law that provided for postponement of service by ultra-orthodox men to expire in August. [Supreme Court] President Beinisch: „Law disappointed.” President-designate Grunis in his dissent: Our intervention will not help. Netanyahu: „We will formulate a new law.”
2. NETANYAHU REPRIMANDS AND THE SENIOR ADVISER RESIGNS
Yoaz Hendel, who complained against Eshel, leaving due to PM’s attitude toward him.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. High Court of Justice in historic ruling on draft of ultra-orthodox men:
„SHALL YOUR BROTHERS GO TO WAR AND YOU WILL SIT HERE?”* Nine-judge High Court of Justice bench cancels Tal Law and rules that postponing IDF service for [ultra-orthodox] yeshiva students harms equality. [Supreme Court] President Beinisch supports cancellation, her successor Grunis opposed. Ultra-orthodox outraged and Likud is concerned: Government liable to break up.
2. Thus is done to those who complained about Natan Eshel:
JUSTICE, NETANYAHU-STYLE
Humiliation in the PM’s Bureau: „I have no confidence in you,” Netanyahu preached at Yoaz Hendel, Yohanan Locker and Tzvi Hauser. Hendel submits resignation, was asked by Netanyahu’s people to stay and heard in the media that he had resigned. Assessment: Hauser next.
* Numbers 32:6
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Netanyahu: We will formulate law that will bring more just change in bearing the burden.
HISTORY: HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE OVERTURNS TAL LAW By 6-3 vote judges rule: Law which legalizes ultra-orthodox evasion from service is unequal and unconstitutional
– and is therefore overturned. [Supreme Court] President Beinisch supported cancellation, incoming President Grunis opposed: „We will have no effect.” Political establishment welcomes decision from Left to Right. Ultra-orthodox parties outraged: „Torah study will continue.”
2. IN WAKE OF ESHEL AFFAIR: HENDEL LEAVES PM’S BUREAU
Reason: Netanyahu has lost confidence in senior aides who complained without his knowledge. PM: „It cannot be that I learn from the media about something so central in the Bureau.”
WALLA!
1. ISRAEL WARNS: WEST AFRICA
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BASE FOR HEZBOLLAH
Israeli Ambassador to the UN claimed in the Security Council that the area has become „a transit point for money, weapons and drugs.” He called for action in West Africa to „uproot terrorism, alongside advancing development and prosperity.”
2. EN ROUTE TO ISRAEL: NAVY’S FOURTH DOLPHIN SUBMARINE
Submarine, being manufactured in Germany under supervision of Defense Ministry personnel, to begin sea trials soon before reaching Israel. Longest submarine manufactured in Germany since WWII.
3. ESHEL AFFAIR: HEAD OF NATIONAL INFORMATION DIRECTORATE, YOAZ HENDEL, RESIGNS
It was Hendel, along with Cabinet Secretary Hauser, who turned to Attorney General regarding harassment by Natan Eshel. Netanyahu recently told them: „I am disappointed that you did not inform me.”
NANA10
1. PM: WE WILL FORMULATE NEW LAW, ULTRA-ORTHODOX: IDF EXEMPTION WILL CONTINUE
2. ESHEL AFFAIR: YOAZ HENDEL LEAVING HIS POST
Head of National Information Directorate to leave his post in wake of affair. Netanyahu rebuked Hendel, Hauser and Locker for not informing him.
3. CLASHES WITH SETTLERS WHO TRIED TO BUILD OUTPOST IN HEBRON AREA
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:10.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot notes that, „A a new, concise definition of social justice is now being formulated in Israel: That is the situation in which a ‘Time Out’ candy bar, produced by Strauss-Elite, costs the same in an Israeli convenience store as it does in a convenience store in New York. The feeling of injustice is so acute here that it motivated a group of mothers to write a letter of protest to local Israeli food manufactures. ‘We will not raise our children to be suckers in a country where a [locally produced] ‘Time Out’ candy bar costs two shekels more than in the US.'”
Ma’ariv contends that, „A serious analysis of the Hezbollah leader’s speeches, attests that he is a rational man who understands the disastrous consequences of an Israel attack. Nasrallah is probably bluffing. He does not say whether or not he will attack, but he has proven in the past that, in matters of threats and deeds, you can take him at his word. In a potential confrontation regarding Iran, he has something to lose, and he knows it. He cannot gain from such a confrontation, unless he is attacked and is forced to respond forcefully. The day may come when he can come out of his bunker thanks to the deterrence of tens of thousands of missiles which Hezbollah can activate at any moment if its leader is harmed, especially if it remains out of a potential confrontation between Israel and Iran, should there be one. „
Yisrael Hayom argues that, „According to the West, Iran is, on one hand, a mad country which desires to attain nuclear capabilities, and along with that, aspires to „wipe Israel” off the map (and perhaps a few other countries as well), and on the other, the West still envisions it, or is trying to envision it, as a rational state that perhaps wants only to attain nuclear capabilities, but does not want to use them. And how does Iran see itself? Do they see an ‘enlightened’ world of crazy countries that want to prevent Iran from becoming a power? ” The author maintains that, „As far as Iran is concerned, the Western world, sponsored by Israel, (the Judeo-Christian world), views its ascension as a Muslim power a ‘grievous evil’ which must be suppressed and prevented from achieving regional, or even world success. The Western world’s assumption is that Iran will use nuclear weapons if it acquires them, while, according to the Iranian rationale, nuclear weapons are necessary only for self defense and for jihad, which for it is the defense of the Muslim world. In summary: Iran’s goal is to become a strong regional player and, as far as they are concerned, obtaining nuclear weapons is a means of doing so.”
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