HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. DEFENSE MINISTRY DEMANDS ADDITIONAL BILLIONS
Government to discuss increasing defense budget due to the Iranian threat. Economists: Cost of an attack will be enormous.
MA’ARIV
1. PRICE OF BREAD TO INCREASE, NEXT PRICE HIKE ALREADY ON ITS WAY (…).
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. BREAD RISING
(…).
2. SENIOR GENERAL STAFF MEMBER: HEZBOLLAH SHOULDN’T TRY US
Following Hezbollah threat to launch missiles at Israel if it attacks Iranian nuclear facilities, the senior officer warns: The blow will be harsh and painful; the Second Lebanon War will not be repeated.
3. WANTED
– HOME FRONT DEFENSE MINISTER: BARAK AND NETANYAHU OFFER DICHTER TO ABANDON KADIMA AND JOIN GOVERNMENT
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Russia livid: Opposed to sanctions on Iran.
SURPRISE: MK AVI DICHTER TO BE APPOINTED HOME FRONT DEFENSE MINISTER Liberman on Iran: Impossible to depend on the international community. „Look what is happening in the Middle East
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it doesn’t do a thing against a regime that murders 20,000 people.” US on Iranian arming: There is still time for diplomacy. Authors and artists threatening PM with High Court of Justice petition if he decides to attack without Government approval.
WALLA!
1. THIS MORNING: SHARP INCREASE IN PUBLIC DEMAND FOR GAS MASKS
2. DICHTER SUBMITS KNESSET RESIGNATION LETTER TO RIVLIN
NANA10
1. IRAN: „AN ISRAELI ATTACK WOULD BE STUPID
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CHANCES SLIM”
2. DICHTER EXPLAINS THE ABANDONMENT: „THE COUNTRY COMES FIRST, AND AFTERWARDS ME”
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 12:05.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot notes that when the IDF liberated the Old City of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War<www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Modern+History/Israel+wars/The+Six-Day+War+-+June+1967.htm>, the late Mordechai Gur<www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2001/4/Mordechai+Gur.htm>, then in command of a reserve paratroop brigade, declared, „The Temple Mount is in our hands.” The author adds, „The reason I am bringing up the ghost of Mordechai Gur is that this week the police informed the Bnei Akiva<www.bneiakiva.net/default.asp> youth movement that it was forbidden to go about the Old City with signs bearing the words ‘The Temple Mount is in our hands.'” The paper says that, „In practice, in modern Israel, 45 years later, there is no sovereignty on the Temple Mount. The Waqf is in charge and decides what is permitted and what is forbidden, a state within a state.” The author reminds its readers that under the auspices of the Waqf, „infrastructure work is being carried out [on the Temple Mount] that entails the destruction of archaeological treasures. There is no supervision by the Antiquities Authority. There is no supervision by the police. There is no preservation of history. Moreover, freedom of worship
– a core value in a liberal, democratic state –
completely disappears on the Mount when it comes to Jews who want to pray. The Waqf decides, the volatility dictates. And so, when Bnei Akiva wanted to deliver a message, the police preferred quiet. The police are not to blame. Its actions are a product of Israeli policy, or to more exact, the continuing lack of a policy regarding the Temple Mount.”
Ma’ariv believes that, „The decision to raise the prices of regulated bread is perhaps just, but not smart. It hits mainly at the lower strata and not those who eat focaccia. The timing is miserable: The increase that takes effect today comes before the upcoming holidays and provides more than a little ammunition to those in the opposition who are attacking the Government’s substandard economic conduct.” The author notes that, „The prices of non-regulated bread and other food products will rise in the coming days,” wonders what could be done and suggests bringing forward the increase in the minimum wage that is due to take effect on October 1.” The paper asserts that, „The price increases, like the social protest, occurred on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s watch,” but adds, „He is not to blame; with all due respect, not even Netanyahu has any influence over global wheat and energy prices.” The author agrees with the Prime Minister’s statement yesterday that, „Israel suffers from too much regulation.”
Yisrael Hayom is concerned that Egyptian President Morsi will prove true to his Muslim Brotherhood roots and seek to erode and undercut the peace treaty with Israel. The author declares, „As billions of dollars from America and Qatar flow into Egypt, it must be made certain that the economic and military assistance are conditional on an Egyptian commitment to the peace with Israel and the foiling of terrorism from Gaza.”
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