HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES: IMMEDIATELY ADMIT REFUGEES TRAPPED ON THE BORDER
2. NETANYAHU CONSIDERS SUMMONING CABINET MEETING PARTICIPANTS FOR POLYGRAPH TESTS
MA’ARIV
SUSPICION: SOLDIER-INSTRUCTORS RAPED HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
Investigation: Three released soldiers arrested on suspicion of rape and prohibited consensual intercourse with pupils during their service at Be’er Sheva technical school. (…).
2. PRIME MINISTER CONSIDERING: POLYGRAPH FOR CABINET MEMEBERS Netanyahu expect to authorize ISA to investigate which senior figure leaked information from the Cabinet meeting regarding Iran. ISA Director met yesterday with the Attorney General.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Price of groceries has risen by tens of percents.
EXPENSIVE HOLIDAY
2. „YOU DON’T HAVE TO RUN TO GET A GAS MASK.”
Chief-of-Staff Gantz on the Iranian threat: Israel is better prepared for it than in the past. On Syria: We are prepared for offensive option. On Nasrallah: If he tries us, he will feel pain.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Leak and punishment: PM unexpectedly adjourns Cabinet meeting.
NETANYAHU WEIGHS: LIMITING TOP SECURITY FORUM
– So political sources are assessing. „PM wants that critical decision to be made by those who can keep a secret.” Netanyahu: Whoever leaks harms national security. He is checking possibility of polygraph test.
2. SOLDIER-INSTRUCTORS HAD SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH 15 YEAR-OLD PUPILS”
Storm at Air Force Beersheba Technical School. The detained are suspected of forbidden consensual intercourse.
WALLA!
1. ABU MAZEN IN CAIRO: WE WILL PETITION UN FOR OBSERVER STATE STATUS
2. STATE ASKS COURT TO REJECT MOTION ON ENTRY OF TRAPPED REFUGEES
NANA10
1. IDF FOILS ATTEMPTED PLANTING OF EXPLOSIVE DEVICE ON NORTHERN GAZA [BORDER FENCE]<www.idf.il/1283-17037-EN/Dover.aspx>, PALESTINIANS REPORT THREE KILLED
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 11:05.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Ma’ariv commends the Justice Ministry for appointing a team to fight attempts to delegitimize Israel and says, „It seems that somebody in Jerusalem has finally understood that this is a genuine war.” The author, who was acquitted by the French Supreme Court on a charge of libeling the father of Muhammad Al-Dura<www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-dr-yehuda-david-an-israeli-hero/feed>, believes that the struggle against the delegitimization of Israel, „requires sophistication and outside-the-box thinking,” and adds, „The forum that has been established is a sign of life.”
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Two papers discuss the controversy over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to adjourn a meeting of the Security Cabinet yesterday morning<www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Spokesman/Pages/spokepizur050912.aspx> in protest against the leaking of information from a similar meeting the night before:
Yediot Ahronot says that Prime Minister is right to be angry over leaks from the Security Cabinet, but accuses his confidants of having leaked plenty of information over the years and claims that, „The culture of running at the mouth and of public relations was born in this Prime Minister’s office.” The author notes that the leaked information
– about alleged disagreements among senior intelligence officials regarding Iran – was allowed for publication by the IDF Censor and speculates that the Prime Minister may be trying to move the discussion to a smaller ministerial forum because, „He does not have an assured majority for action against Iran,” in the full Security Cabinet.
Yisrael Hayom reminds its readers that, „The war against leaks is not new,” and dismisses the suggestion that members of the Security Cabinet undergo polygraph tests. The author asserts, „The anger will pass and all that will be left for the Prime Minister to do is compartmentalize his Cabinet vis-a-vis sensitive information, and each minister will have to decide if he is prepared to be a second rate minister.” The paper notes a suggestion by Minister Michael Eitan, who is not a member of the Security Cabinet, that the full Cabinet delegate authority to some smaller ministerial forum and authorize it to decide on a possible strike against Iran but adds, „This is not at all simple. Most ministers will be asked to assume responsibility for decisions they had no part in making.”
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