HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. ULPANA EVACUEES TO RESIDE IN BUILDINGS WITHOUT PERMITS
Deputy Attorney General overstepped convention and determined that there is no need for permits to construct mobile homes, under the pretense that the issue was an ‘immediate military need’.
2. PALESTINIANS: AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE VATICAN AND ISRAEL RECOGNIZES 1967 ANNEXATION
MA’ARIV
1. FIRE GETTING CLOSE TO ASSAD: SYRIAN AIR FORCE BASE FALLS
(…). Deputy Chief-of-Staff Naveh: Concern that chemical weapon stockpiles will fall into hostile hands.
2. THE STRUGGLE OF RAMLE WOMEN
After 30 women have been murdered in recent years against the background of family dishonor, dozens of women from Ramle and Lod took to the streets in a rare protest against the ineptitude of the police.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. (…).
CLOSING IN ON DAMASCUS
(…). The day after: No agreed-upon replacement for Assad.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. „FIVE YEARS IN PRISON FOR ANYONE HIRING AN INFILTRATOR”
Government decides to support MK Akunis’ bill, which imposes five years’ imprisonment or NIS 500,000 fine for anyone renting to infiltrators. (…)
2. MISSILE BASE IN REBEL HANDS
(…). Deputy Chief-of-Staff Naveh: The Syrians have the biggest chemical weapons stockpile in the region.
3. „THERE WILL BE NO FREEDOM WITH A NUCLEAR IRAN”
Peres lands in the US. He will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama.
WALLA!
1. PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER ON YAD VASHEM DESECRATION: „SHOCKING INCIDENT”
2. TIRES OF SEVEN VEHICLES IN SHUAFAT PUNCTURED; „REGARDS FROM ULPANA”
NANA10
1. SERIOUS INCIDENT IN JERUSALEM: „HITLER, THANKS FOR THE HOLOCAUST” SPRAYPAINTED AT YAD V’SHEM
2. „PRICE TAG” IN JERUSALEM: CAR TIRES PUNCTURED IN EASTERN PART OF CITY, „ULPANA” SPRAYPAINTED
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:50.] ____________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot suggests that draft legislation approved yesterday to protect Israeli authors’ income from sales of their books<www.haaretz.com/news/national/bill-to-protect-israeli-authors-income-wins-government-backing-1.435577> will have little effect as long as two major chains control the book market in Israel.
Ma’ariv reminds its readers, „The story of Syria is both tragic and scandalous. Day after day, its army and police humiliate, frighten and kill many of its citizens. The elderly and the young, the educated and the uneducated, rich and poor
– all are targets. And the so-called ‘civilized’ world is not even trying to stop the slaughter. Its leaders issue statements, but the bloodshed continues. The situation, which has gone on for 13 months, is not about to end.” The author, winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, questions whether, „armed assistance is the only solution,” and doubts the efficacy of economic sanctions. He calls on the international community to take the case of Syria and its president, Bashar Al-Assad, to the international court in The Hague: „He will lose all support and any sympathy from the world. No self-respecting human being will come to his defense. No nation will offer him refuge. No statute of limitations will cover him. If, and when, he understands that, like Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, his end will be shameful and he will sit in prison, he is likely to put an end to his senseless and criminal struggle to survive. Why not try it?”
Yisrael Hayom calls on US President Barack Obama to accede to President Shimon Peres’ request, at their meeting in the US this week, and release Jonathan Pollard. The paper contends that, „Pollard’s lengthy sentence is exceptional since he was not a spy of the kind that cooperated with the Soviets and led to the murder of American agents and informants. He did not act against the US, but for its ally.” The author says that US President, „Obama knows that he [Pollard] has suffered enough. Please, Mr. President, let him go.”
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