HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. FIRING RESUMES: 20 ROCKETS LAND IN SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES
Air Force attacks Hamas civil HQ in Gaza. Palestinians report that 4-year-old child was killed, IDF denies.
2. DOZENS OF PROTESTORS BREAK INTO BANKS AND SMASH WINDOWS
3. TODAY: MINISTERS TO DISCUSS ISRAEL’S FIRST MIGRATION LAW: FEWER VISAS, EASING OF RESTRICTIONS FOR CHILDREN
4. ARAB MAYORS: ESTABLISH VOLUNTARISM IN PLACE OF NATIONAL SERVICE
Against background of Plesner committee discussions, Arab public representatives are, for the first time, proposing a national volunteer program.
MA’ARIV
1. 35 ROCKETS FIRED AT THE SOUTH, IDF BOMBS HAMAS BASE Worker at factory near Sderot moderately injured by hit even though he was in protected area. Five killed in Gaza Strip from Air Force attacks. Classes in southern schools to be held as normal today.
2. VIOLENT PROTEST
Activists who demonstrated in central Tel Aviv broke into banks and smashed windows.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Over 60 rockets fired at Israel over the weekend.
UNCALM CALM
On Friday, Hamas resumed firing
– and declared a ceasefire last night. This morning: Classes in south to be held as usual.
2. PROTEST OUT OF CONTROL
Last night: Thousands of protestors rampage in streets of Tel Aviv and shatter bank windows.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. CEASEFIRE BEING PUT TO THE TEST
After the escalation: Hamas declares that it wants calm, Israel promises „Quiet will be met with quiet.” Dozens of rockets fired at the south, IDF attacks in the Gaza Strip. Result: One person moderately wounded in Sderot, two killed in Gaza and series of successful interceptions by Iron Dome. PM: „We will act with strength in order to maintain quiet for residents of the south.”
2. PROTEST ACTIVISTS BLOCK AYALON HIGHWAY Last night: Hundreds of protestors rioted in Tel Aviv, shattered bank windows and blocked Ayalon highway after midnight. Over 20 arrested. Friday: Daphne Leif and 12 activists arrested on Rothschild Boulevard. Police: „This is a provocation.” Activists: „They were violent.”
WALLA!
1. „INFILTRATORS WHO PREVIOUSLY TRAVELED TO TEL AVIV
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WILL NOW BE IMPRISONED”
PM briefly discusses issue at start of Cabinet meeting and added that, „This week, an additional plane will leave for South Sudan and two more will leave next week. Southern border fence is being built quickly.”
2. PERES WARNS HAMAS: „EVERY MISSILE FIRED AT ISRAEL
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HURTS YOU”
President discusses escalation in the south and appeals to organization ruling Gaza: „Restraint will not last for long and the sooner you understand this, the better.” (…).
NANA10
1. PM: „POLICY IS TO USE FORCE IN ORDER TO RECEIVE QUIET”
2. PERES ON FIRING IN THE SOUTH: „ISRAEL’S RESTRAINT WILL NOT LAST FOR LONG”
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 12:45.]
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot says that when asking the young people who led Israel’s social-economic protest last summer what their agenda was, „I received at least as many answers as the number of men and women with whom I spoke.” The author notes that, „In the three largest issues in which the Israeli society has dealt with in the past months a united voice has not been heard from among the protesters. The ‘people’ are not taking to the barricades because they find themselves split and undecided.”
Ma’ariv declares that, „Egypt has fallen. The ‘cliff’, as Shimon Peres called Mubarak, has been washed into the sea. His place has been taken by the Islamic flood.”
Yisrael Hayom argues that, „The missiles which Hamas, and its front organizations have fired at Israel are trying to dictate to Israel, to Egypt and to the West, an agenda of conflict between Israel and Egypt.” The author advocates that, „Israel must continue with the policy of striking at Hamas and extracting a price from it. Like Pavlov’s dog, Hamas needs to know that Israel will not be dragged into a provocation with Egypt, and even if shots are fired from the Sinai, only Hamas in Gaza will bleed.”
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