HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. PROGRESS IN CONTACTS BETWENN IRAN AND THE MAJOR POWERS
2. JERUSALEM DAY: RIGHT-WING MARCH IN EASTERN PART OF THE CITY
Report: 78% of the city’s Palestinian residents live below the poverty line, sharp increase over past five years.
3. ISRAEL POLICE INSPECTOR-GENERAL DANINO: „ENABLE INFILTRATORS TO WORK IN ISRAEL”
MA’ARIV
1. Jerusalem Day.
„WE WILL HAVE TO REACH AN UNDERSTANDING ON THE OLD CITY
– INCLUDING ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT”
Former mayor and prime minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem Day interview. (…).
2. PROGRESS IN CONTACTS BETWEEN WESTERN COUNTRIES AND IRAN
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. After the threats
–
US: We are not considering attacking.
US AND IRAN EN ROUTE TO NUCLEAR AGREEMENT (…). Israel: Iran will continue to advance towards a bomb.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Talk about a „deal”: No uranium enrichment but „nuclear project for peaceful needs.”
„US LIABLE TO AGREE TO CONTINUED URANIUM ENRICHMENT”
– up to 3.5%. Enrichment to 20% to be prohibited. Obama promises: Tehran will not have a bomb –
but according to The New York Times, he wants to „postpone any possibility of action until after the elections.” Netanyahu: „Iran is good at playing this chess game. They know that sometimes you have to sacrifice a pawn to save the king.”
2. 45 YEARS SINCE THE UNIFICATION OF JERUSALEM Jerusalem Day to be celebrated today with a series of events. New data: 801,000 residents live in the capital, 89% of them are satisfied with life. 2.8 million tourists visited the city in 2011.
WALLA!
1. PREPARATIONS FOR JERUSALEM DAY FESTIVITIES: ‘CITY OF GREAT HOPE”
Many events to be held in the capital marking 45 years since the city was unified. Police deployed on streets. Ministers to mark Jerusalem Day with series of decisions to be made at Cabinet meeting at Ammunition Hillwww.givathatachmoshet.org.il/en/index.php.
2. FOLLOWING SOUTH AFRICA’S DECISION: AMBASSADOR TO BE SUMMONED FOR CLARIFICATION
Foreign Ministry sharply attacks „racist” decision to mark products originating in settlements and will try to apply pressure in order to change it. (…).
NANA10
1. SOUTH AFRICAN AMBASSADOR TO BE SUMMONED FOR REPRIMAND FOLLOWING DECISION TO MARK PRODUCTS FROM SETTLEMENTS
South African ambassador in Israel to be summoned to Foreign Ministry for reprimand early next week. This follows decision to mark products from settlements as having been produced in occupied territories.
2. CABINET MEETING AT AMMUNITION HILL TO MARK 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF CITY’S UNIFICATION
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:30.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
All three papers discuss various issues regarding Jerusalem:
Yediot Ahronot discusses life in the city. The author recalls that, „Nine years ago I arrived in Jerusalem, at the height of terrorist attacks. The first time some student asked me to go out one evening; I asked him, in all seriousness, if that meant that we would have to travel to Tel Aviv. But very quickly I discovered another side and, more importantly, I decided to join an impressive group of young people who decided to stop crying about the city and start doing something about it. I did not dare for nine years to say what I am ready to say today, even with no small amount of confidence, but Jerusalem has really changed. Today’s Jerusalem has learned well how to serve even bourgeois couples with two children and a dog who dream of an urban community life (yes, such a thing exists, and only Jerusalem can offer it) and who are looking for a nice place which maintains some values.”
Ma’ariv maintains that, „The capital, in recent years, has chalked up an encouraging revival in the fields of tourism and culture, but as long as there is no demographic revolution
its verdict is engraved on the walls. Israel’s capital will remain for the years to come downtrodden and orthodox. Its educated and wealthy will continue to abandon it for the suburbs and for Tel Aviv.”
Yisrael Hayom notes that, „Today, the 28th of the [Hebrew] month of Iyar, is Jerusalem Day. Yet many do not know the additional significance assigned by the Knesset to this day, that this is the Remembrance Day for Ethiopian Jews who died on their way to Israel. Ethiopian Jews had one dream all their years in the Diaspora: To come to Jerusalem. On this day we remember all those who fought for this city and all those who fought to reach Jerusalem and died on the way.”
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