HA’ARETZ
1. 18TH KNESSET VOTES TO DISPERSE, ISRAEL EN ROUTE TO JANUARY ELECTIONS
2. EUROPEAN UNION STEPS UP SANCTIONS ON IRAN
MA’ARIV
1. YISHAI REJECTS COMPROMISE TO APPOINT DERI AS SHAS CHAIRMAN
Rabbi Ovadia proposed: Deri would head the party and Yishai would be its
senior minister.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Solution being formulated at Rabbi Yosef’s home for return of Deri.
RETURNING TO SHAS
Twelve years after being forced to exit politics: Aryeh Deri is expected to
return to the leadership of the movement from which he arose. (.).
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Decisive moment: Deri or Yishai? The battle for the Shas leadership to
reach its peak in the next 48 hours; high tension inside Kadima – Olmert
checking possibility of running with Livni and Ashkenazi.
CAMPAIGNS IN FULL FORCE
Convene and dissolve: Large Knesset majority approved early elections on
January 22nd. (.).
WALLA!
1. PALESTINIANS BLOCK HIGHWAY 443 IN „PROTEST OVER OCCUPATION”
2. CAMERON TO NETANYAHU: „THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR AN ISRAELI OPERATION IN
IRAN”
NANA10
1. SINAI JIHAD ORGANIZATIONS THREATENING: „WE WILL KIDNAP ISRAELIS IN THE
COMING DAYS”
2. BARAK AND ABU MAZEN MET SECRETLY IN JORDAN: FOCUSED ON EFFORT TO RENEW
PEACE TALKS
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:15.]
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot asserts that, „The young and energetic Minister of
Communications succeeded beyond expectations, and in return received great
public admiration. But – yes, but – Moshe Kahlon was not a social
revolutionary. Implementing actions to lower telephone rates is not social
revolution. Far from it: The rate reduction was attained by Minister Kahlon
by opening cellular communications to additional outside competitors. This
type of opening brings with it an immediate lowering of prices, but when the
new players establish themselves and take control of a certain market share,
they begin to raise prices. And so it is expected in cellular
communications.”
Ma’ariv maintains that, „The phenomenon of Iranian cyber activities requires
proper defensive actions. Besides generic defenses, defense based on
intelligence is also needed. Israel must make the field of cyber defense
against Iran a top intelligence and operational priority. That is in order
to discover early any attack preparations and to foil them in time.” The
author notes that, „Similar to the Iranian nuclear program, the challenge is
not just the State of Israel’s, but rather that of many other western
countries, as well as the Gulf states. Therefore, extensive international
cooperation must be initiated in the field of intelligence and in countering
Iranian cyber activities.”
Yisrael Hayom discusses „avoiding the creation of a Syrian monster.” The
author avers that, „The picture, portrayed in the reports by [Washington
Post reporter David] Ignatius and in other reports, must worry all those
concerned that the secular, nationalistic, tyrannical regime in Syria will
be replaced, due to the uprising, by a fanatical Islamist regime. One of the
less complicated ways of avoiding this is to transfer to the forces
identified with the West the means which they are in need of. That is the
least that is necessary.”
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