HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. BE QUIET, WE’RE DEPORTING
(…).
2. SOUTH SUDAN REPRESENTATIVES COMING TO ISRAEL TO DISCUSS RETURN OF MIGRANTS TO THEIR COUNTRY
MA’ARIV
1. TODAY: STATE COMPTROLLER TO ISSUE REPORT ON THE MARMARA
Assessments: Lindenstrauss will determine that there were serious shortcomings in decision-making process of Prime Minister and Defense Minister in preparing for the evacuation of the Turkish flotilla.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. ULTRA-ORTHODOX TO RECEIVE DRAFT QUOTA
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2. BEING HIT WITH A REPORT
Today: Serious criticism in State Comptroller’s Marmara report on management of Netanyahu and Barak.
3. BOARDING SCHOOL WORKERS REFUSED TO HAND OVER SUDANESE CHILDREN FOR DEPORTATION
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Great anxiety in political and defense echelons ahead of special report.
TODAY: MARMARA REPORT
State Comptroller found „serious shortcomings” in Government’s decision-making process in Turkish Gaza flotilla affair. Defects also found in field of public diplomacy. Also determined: Substantial gaps yet remain between National Security Council Law and its implementation.
2. MEDAL AND POLLARD’S FATE
Tonight in the US: Peres to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama. (…).
WALLA!
1. TONIGHT: PRESIDENT PERES TO RECEIVE MEDAL OF FREEDOM FROM OBAMA
2. EIGHT ADDITIONAL MOBILE HOMES BROUGHT TO TEMPORARY NEIGHBORHOOD IN BEIT EL
NANA10
1. PERES TO CNN: „MUBARAK IS AS SOLID AS A ROCK”
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:50.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot discusses the expectation that President Shimon Peres will present US President Barack Obama with a petition in which 70,000 Israelis call on the latter to release Jonathan Pollard. The author says, „With all due respect to Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, Gilad Shalit, Shlomo Artzi and the 70,000 others who signed petition for Jonathan Pollard’s release, the chances are slim-to-none that Shimon Peres will bring him back home to Israel,” and adds, „Any other result would be a miracle.” The paper refers to the ceremony in which US President Obama will award President Peres the Presidential Medal of Freedom and contends, „Obama needs the ceremony and medal in order to win the hearts of more Jewish voters this November; Peres needs the ceremony and the medal because he wants the ceremony and the medal.” The author believes that neither of them, „will allow Pollard to spoil the mood and the festive ceremony.”
Ma’ariv refers to the operation to deport illegal African migrants from Israel and believes that, „On the day they know that the party is over, that Israel is putting a stop to this folly and that the few who enter are being put into tent encampments, in conditions that are less than entirely pleasant, this will be communicated very quickly to friends and family members who are en route. The exodus from Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt will be reduced, if not halted.”
Yisrael Hayom discusses the controversy over integration of ultra-orthodox Jews into Israeli society. The author
– the president of the College of Management Academic Studies in Rishon Lezion – suggests that the loss to the state, „is not measured only by the monthly NIS 1,100 stipend to approximately 60,000 full-time ultra-orthodox yeshiva students, the funds for which come from the taxpayers, but in the NIS 1 billion loss to the GNP, which stems from the non-integration of the ultra-orthodox in the labor market,” and adds, „The true loss to the state, to all of us, is not in the number of ultra-orthodox who are drafted, or not, into the IDF, but in the number of ultra-orthodox who do not go out to study, work and contribute to the GNP.” The paper believes that, „The short-term solution is the opening of campuses suited to their way of life and the establishment of special academies to prepare young ultra-orthodox Jews for future academic study, and this is alongside economic support by the state.”
