HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS

HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS

HA’ARETZ:1. Ahead of expected compromise with Iran

US TO SEND DELEGATION TO REASSURE ISRAEL

 

 

MA’ARIV

1. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN TO A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD THAT HER FAMILY HAS BEEN WIPED OUT?

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2. MINUTES BEFORE REACHING EVEREST PEAK, NADAV BEN YEHUDA SAVED THE LIFE OF A TURKISH CLIMBER

 

 

3. BETWEEN LOCALS AND FOREIGNERS IN THE CITY [TEL AVIV]: ON VERGE OF EXPLOSION

 

 

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. „EVERYONE IS DEAD?”

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2. DISAPPOINTMENT FOR ISRAEL: ISABO BAND DID NOT ADVANCE TO EUROVISION FINALS

YISRAEL HAYOM

1. AGREEMENT WITH IRAN: THEY ARE PULLING A FAST ONE ON US

Barak: „Only a mirage of progress.” Today in Baghdad: Another round of talks with the powers.

WALLA!

1. DEFENSE MINISTER: „TALKS WITH IRAN WILL NOT BE BEHIND OUR BACKS”

 

 

NANA10

1. NETANYAHU ACTING TO STOP VOTE ON OUTPOST LAW

Prime Minister agreed with MK Orlev not to raise the proposal aimed at legalizing compensation in cases of construction on private Palestinian land instead of evacuating buildings.

 

 

2. APPARENT: US WILL GRANT ISRAEL UNPRECEDENTED AID

 

 

[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 11:20.] ______________________________

SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Two papers discuss various economic issues:

Yediot Ahronot criticizes the Government in general, and the Finance Ministry in particular, for constantly raising and lowering personal income and corporate tax rates, VAT, payments to the National Insurance Institute and fuel taxes in recent years. The author believes that, „A lack of stability and zigzags have a baneful influence on the economy: Investors who do not know what corporate taxes will be in another two or three years will hesitate about coming to Israel; business owners need to spend day and night over their VAT calculations; those who invest in provident funds find it difficult to understand the management fee rates that they have to pay, and so on.” As an alternative, the paper points to the Bank of Israel and reminds its readers that, „Instead of raising and lowering interest rates every month, it has left them unchanged nine times in the past twelve months,” and adds, „Interest rates have stood at 2.5% for five months in a row now.” The author notes that senior Bank officials explain that the foregoing, „is designed ‘to unnecessary zigzags in the economy’,” and concludes, „Netanyahu and Steinitz should pay attention.”

Ma’ariv refers to reports that as the Finance Ministry seeks to find additional revenue in order to pay for various projects included in next year’s budget, it is considering

inter alia increasing VAT and corporate taxes and cutting child and elderly support payments. The author asserts, „Government ministries must become more efficient instead of heaping decrees on the public.”

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Yisrael Hayom avers that the reported agreement between Iran and the IAEA, „is not worth the SMS that can summarize its contents,” and adds, „Basically, it is a gesture to the Iranians that is designed to allow Barack Obama to get through the November 2012 presidential elections in peace.” The author complains that, „The Iranians are toying with the democratic leaders who have always aspired to short-term achievements and to extinguish local fires, and whose horizon stretches to the ballot box.”

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