HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. IDF TO FORM THREE MORE ULTRA-ORTHODOX NAHAL<www.idf.il/1515-en/Dover.aspx> BRIGADES IF TAL LAW IS CHANGED
In wake of need to formulate new law, IDF is preparing plan for extensive draft of ultra-orthodox. Some recruits will be sent to Israel Police and Prison Service.
2. SENIOR MINISTERS: [ATTORNEY GENERAL] WEINSTEIN EXPECTED TO ACCEPT NETANYAHU’S SOLUTION TO ULPANA CRISIS
3. Third time within a month.
MIGRANTS’ APARTMENT SET ABLAZE IN JERUSALEM
4. UNDER PRESSURE FROM [HOLOCAUST] SURVIVORS, WAGNER CONCERT AT TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY WAS CANCELLED
MA’ARIV
1. CONCERN: IRAN BUILT A THIRD URANIUM ENRICHMENT FACILITY
Research institute close to American administration: Reactor joins sites at Natanz and Fordow, but its location is unknown. Israeli source: UK trying to postpone part of sanctions.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. No majority for law: Ulpana homes en route to evacuation.
SETTLERS: LIKUD MINISTERS HAVE BETRAYED US PM warns against international complications
– and ministers who intended to support law to bypass High Court of Justice tomorrow backtracked.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Netanyahu apparently blocks law. Attorney General’s answer expected today.
NO MAJORITY FOR ARRANGEMENT LAW; RESIDENTS: „WE WILL NOT GIVE IN”
Netanyahu: „There are emotions here, but alternative would damage settlement.” After round of talks with heads of coalition factions
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majority was ensured against law. PM to Ulpana families: „You are the salt of the earth.” PM’s Bureau working to prevent violent evacuation.
2. INCREASING SUSPICION: IRAN SECRETLY BUILT ANOTHER ENRICHMENT FACILITY Thus arises from assessment by Institute for Science and international Security researchers<isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/is-iran-building-a-third-enrichment-plant> in Washington. No report on location of facility.
3. DID YOU THINK THAT FOOD PRICES ARE HIGH HERE? YOU’RE RIGHT Kedmi Committee: Prices higher than in [other] OECD countries. „Market is cartelized and there are unfair business links.”
WALLA!
1. STABBING ATTACK IN HEBRON: SOLDIER LIGHTLY-TO-MODERATELY WOUNDED
Incident occurred near Tomb of the Patriarchs when Palestinian stabbed Border Police officer in the head with a nail. Additional officer at site shot and moderately-to-seriously wounded the Palestinian. Two were evacuated for treatment.
2. NETANYAHU: „MOVING FIVE ULPANA HILL HOMES TO COST APPROXIMATELY NIS 14 MILLION”
NANA10
1. APPARENT: [ATTORNEY GENERAL] WEINSTEIN TO SUPPORT MOVING ULPANA STRUCTURES
Netanyahu continues to hold talks with Attorney General and will seek his approval for construction of residential units in military areas as compensation.
2. STABBING IN HEBRON: BORDER POLICE OFFICER LIGHTLY WOUNDED NEAR TOMB OF THE PATRIARCHS
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 11:30.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot notes that, „This week we mark 30 years since the First Lebanon War
the first war that was limited and not all-out, the first that was a ‘war of choice’ and the first that was waged against an organization (the PLO) and not against a state.” The author maintains that, „The most important lesson is the need to recognize that in contemporary wars there exists a large gap between military capabilities and the expectations of politicians, the media and the public.”
Ma’ariv comments that, „Despite reports of increasing involvement of [migrant] infiltrators in crime, there is no data indicating as such in Israel. In the world, paradoxically, the figures are worrying.”
Yisrael Hayom discusses Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein’s decision to prosecute Ha’aretz journalist Uri Blau for his role in the Anat Kam affair. The author says that he was, „shocked, and perhaps I am not alone in this feeling, due to the decision of the Attorney General to prosecute journalist Uri Blau on the suspicion of illegally possessing highly classified documents. The shock was not due to the erroneous decision, in our opinion, to prosecute Blau, but rather due to the vociferous expressions from journalists following the decision.” The paper adds, „Journalists’ remarks following the Attorney General’s decision completely distorted the reality of freedom of the press and expression in Israel. In many instances, these remarks bordered on hysteria.” The author asserts, „Israel and its citizens enjoy freedom of the press and expression with few parallels in democratic countries,” and adds, „As a journalist, I am proud of my country, which has been in an emergency situation for 64, in the heart of a conflagration, and nevertheless does not send journalists to jail wholesale like Erdogan’s Turkey.”
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