HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT AND BLOCK ROADS
Approximately 10,000 demonstrated in largest protest since last summer, several of whom blocked roads in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
2. NETANYAHU TO MORSI: „MAINTAIN THE PEACE”
Egyptian President sworn in and promised to honor all international agreements his country has signed and work for Palestinians’ rights. Contacts on holding telephone call between the two leaders.
MA’ARIV
1. SEVENTH PRIME MINISTER, YITZHAK SHAMIR, PASSES AWAY AT 96
2. ULTRA-ORTHODOX DRAFT CRISIS: KADIMA THREATENING TO BOLT GOVERNMENT Mofaz to senior party figures: I will not give in on personal sanctions against ultra-orthodox draft evaders.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Party on Ashdod beach ends in tragedy.
„ALCOHOL KILLED THEM”
(…).
2. YITZHAK SHAMIR PASSES AWAY
State of Israel’s seventh Prime Minister, 96, died at nursing home.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. YITZHAK SHAMIR, 1915-2012
Israel’s seventh Prime Minister passes away. „He belonged to the generation of giants that fought for the freedom of the Jewish People in its Land,” Netanyahu said.
2. MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD REPRESENTATIVE, PRESIDENT New era in Egypt: Morsi sworn in as President. Promises: „We will stand alongside the Palestinians until they achieve their full rights.”
WALLA!
1. NETANYAHU WROTE TO MORSI: „PEACE AGREEMENT MUST BE MAINTAINED”
In first letter PM sent to new Egyptian President, Netanyahu congratulated him on his victory and hoped for bilateral cooperation. Senior diplomat: „Army will be in charge of relations with Israel.”
NANA10
1. CABINET TO APPROVE INCREASING THE DEFICIT TARGET TO 3.5%
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 11:00.]
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot contends that, „We must attempt to find a crack, even the tiniest, in the wall of the Brotherhood. There will be those who will say that there is no one to talk to in Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. It would seem that this is even correct. But with whom, for example, did we conduct negotiations with for the release of Gilad Shalit?”
Ma’ariv eulogizes the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: „He was an exceptionally strong man; physically, mentally, personally. And even for him managing and steering the Jewish State in days that were so dangerous in the Middle East, was a difficult mission, to the extent of being impossible. He gave it everything that he had.” The author reminds his readers that Yitzhak Shamir was, „one of the last leaders who did not try to use his position to enrich himself. He did not accumulate assets, a ranch, a castle or a luxury apartment.”
Yisrael Hayom suggests that, „Bad things are happening to the [socio-economic] protest. The protest’s initiators, for example Yitzhak Elrov and the cottage cheese protestors and the initiative to break-up [the country’s] cartelization
– those who began it and sacrificed much in order to fight economic centralization… have been pushed to the side. Their place at the frontline of the protest has been awarded by the media to radical marginal groups with which it identifies, groups that are not really interested in the war against [economic] centralization, but rather in the use of violence in order to advance radical political agendas.”
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