HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ
1. NORTH KOREA SUSPENDS ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM
(…).
2. Due to public pressure:
NETANYAHU LOWERS FUEL TAX BY NIS 0.10
MA’ARIV
1. DUE TO PRESSURE: NETANYAHU LOWERS TAX ON FUEL
Five hours before price increase, PM announced: Price of gasoline will not cross NIS 8.00 threshold.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Fuel prices hit peak. At last minute: Netanyahu lowers tax behind Finance Minister’s back.
HUMILIATION FOR STEINITZ
While Finance Minister is visiting China and declared that he would not moderate fuel price hike: Netanyahu announced NIS 0.10 in price.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. NETANYAHU LOWERS FUEL TAX BY NIS 0.10 Price jumps, but not so much: Price of liter of 95 octane gasoline to stand at NIS 7.95 (full service). PM: „While the state has no control over the price of petroleum in the world, we do not have to tax every price increase.”
WALLA!
1. STORM AT ITS PEAK: RAIN AND WIND IN THE CENTER. SNOW ALERT IN THE CAPITAL
Strong rains falling throughout the country this morning, accompanied by brisk winds. Mt. Hermon site closed to visitors and many roads in the north have been blocked. Jerusalem hoping for snow.
NANA10
1. YEAR SINCE MURDER OF FOGEL FAMILY<www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+since+2000/Fogel_family_stabbed_Itamar_11-Mar-2011.htm> IN ITAMAR: KNESSET SPEAKER PROMISES CONSTRUCTION.
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot maintains that „It is discouraging to see the conduct of affairs between the Finance Ministry and the Prime Minister: At the last minute Netanyahu decided to lower the price of gasoline after [Finance Minister] Steinitz left the country in the knowledge that he received full backing for the price hike, and the Finance Ministry is baffled by the contradictions.”
Ma’ariv notes than Iranian film beat an Israeli one for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. The author says that, „The race for the Oscar teaches us that as long as we are busy in wars in the fields of art, sports and the like, the artillery will continue to remain quiet
– and it is good.”
Yisrael Hayom remarks that, „How symbolic it is that on the week in which we commemorate twenty years since the death of Menachem Begin, that for the first time an Ethiopian immigrant has been appointed to the post of ambassador in Israel’s foreign service. It is hard not to remember the immortal words of Israel’s sixth prime minister when he requested, back in the late 70’s from the Mossad Director: ‘Bring me the Ethiopian Jews.’ Accordingly Beylanesh Zevadia’s appointment<twitter.com/#!/GPOIsrael/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FSAmngvFE> to be the new Ambassador to Ethiopia closes both a personal and national circle.”
