HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. PUBLIC DEFENDER’S OFFICE TO DEMAND PAYMENT FROM THE ACCUSED
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2. NETANYAHU TO SHAS: SHOW FLEXIBILITY ON ULTRA-ORTHODOX DRAFT
3. PRESIDENTS OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING OPPOSE DECLARATION OF UNIVERSITY IN ARIEL
MA’ARIV
1. IDF DEMANDING NIS 15 BILLION TO DEAL WITH FRONT IN THE SOUTH In wake of Egyptian elections and rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, army underscoring need to increase readiness in the south. Security source: „Peace agreement is of great importance.”
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UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS’ LETTER TO NETANYAHU: CANNOT RECOGNIZE ARIEL Presidents of seven universities, including Bar-Ilan, make it clear: „Higher education will be mortally wounded.” Right-wing MKs demand dismissal of Trajtenberg, who is due to decide on the issue.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. NETANYAHU: COMPROMISE. LIBERMAN: I WILL NOT ALLOW DRAFT TO BE SWEPT UNDER THE RUG
PM in effort to placate ultra-orthodox: Ready to give in on sanctions against those who are not drafted, cancel quotas and postpone date to 22-23. Liberman: Everyone will be drafted at 18, we will not be bluffed.
2. ELIMINATION IN DAMASCUS
Two-and-a-half years after elimination of senior Hamas militant Mahmoud Mabhouh in Dubai: Hamas announced last night that Mabhouh’s deputy was shot to death in his apartment in mysterious operation.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. JEWS BUY MOST OF THE AREA OF MIGRON OUTPOST The deal
– last-minute attempt to prevent August 1 evacuation. At this stage, dealmakers still do not know if buying the area of the community meets all legal needs and whether this will satisfy High Court of Justice.
2. „DRAFT ULTRA-ORTHODOX TO THE MOSSAD AND ISA AS WELL”
This is one of the recommendations arising from conclusions of Plasner committee on equality of the burden. PM trying to soften ultra-orthodox opposition: Will offer alternatives to some clauses and will not support personal sanctions.
3. „MABHOUH’S ASSISTANT ELIMINATED IN DAMASCUS”
Report: Unknown persons eliminated Kamal Ranaja in his apartment. Was responsible for smuggling weapons into the Gaza Strip from Iran.
WALLA!
1. MINISTER BARAK ON ELIMINATED SENIOR HAMAS MILITANT: „NOT A SAINT”
Israel not taking responsibility for elimination of Kamal Ranaja in Damascus but DM reacted to the incident and said that not just Israel was looking for him. Hamas: „His blood will not be shed in vain.”
2. TODAY: EVACUATION OF ULPANA NEIGHBORHOOD TO BE COMPLETED
18 families from the Beit El neighborhood are expected to join 15 families who were evacuated on Tuesday to mobile home site that was built at IDF Binyamin Brigade base. After evacuation, five structures will be sealed.
NANA10
1. BARAK ON ELIMINATION OF MABHOUH’S ASSISTANT IN DAMASCUS: „HE WAS NO SAINT”
DM reacts to elimination of senior Hamas militant Kamal Ranaja and said that it is likely that not only Israel was after him. Hamas representative in Lebanon: „Only the Zionist entity could benefit from such an action.”
2. PM’S BUREAU WORRIED OVER TAL LAW ALTERNATIVES: „WE’RE IN TROUBLE”
[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 Plasner Committee proposal whereby ultra-orthodox men would be drafted into the army from the age of 22-23. The author claims that this would mean that, „Most will be married and fathers by then. Integration into the army will be limited, and the cost to the country will be high: NIS 5,000 a month per recruit.” The paper notes that, „Regular soldiers would also be happy, between the ages of 18 to 23, to occupy themselves with making babies, or at least intensive training in preparation, but what can you do
– they’re in the army.”
Ma’ariv maintains that, „When the foreign minister threatens MK Talab El-Sana that, ‘When I run the Government, I’ll deal with you first’, it is clear his future list of those to be ‘dealt with’ does not end there.”
Yisrael Hayom says that, „The Iranian nuclear effort is intended to advance Tehran’s 1,400 year-old historic aspiration: Control of the Persian Gulf as the first stage of regional and world hegemony. A nuclear Iran would be an immediate and clear threat to pro-American regimes in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states and would lead to a slippery regional and global economic and security slope that would threaten the world’s sanity and fatally harm the security of the United States and its economy. Israel would be a target for Iran’s nuclear capabilities, but not a first target.”
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