HA’ARETZ
1. The Gaza blockade „red lines” document.
2,279 CALORIES PER PERSON: THUS ISRAEL CALCULATED HOW NOT TO STARVE GAZA
After a long struggle, food limits allowed during blockade. Defense
Ministry: Document was never utilized.
2. FINAL: STATE ATTORNEY’S OFFICE TO APPEAL IN OLMERT CASE
MA’ARIV
1. STATE ATTORNEY’S OFFICE TO APPEAL OLMERT’S ACQUITAL
While he is still considering running, the State Attorney’s Office hastened
to announce that it will appeal verdict and sentencing. It has yet to be
decided whether to turn to the Supreme Court only regarding acquittal in the
Talansky affair or also regarding „RishonTours”.
2. LAPID TO MAKE POLITICAL SPEECH IN ARIEL
(.)
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. [FORMER MOSSAD DIRECTOR] MEIR DAGAN RECEIVES LIVER TRANSPLANT
(.).
2. STATE ATTORNEY’S OFFICE TO APPEAL OLMERT ACQUITAL
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. STATE ATTORNEY’S OFFICE: WE WILL APPEAL OLMERT ACQUITAL
While the former prime minister is still considering a return to politics,
the State Attorney’s Office announced: We will appeal decision in case. (.).
Likud announces final [decision]: No reserved spots on list. Former ISA
Director Yaakov Perry joining Lapid; journalist Mickey Rosenthal also
entering politics.
2. SHAS – THE DECISIVE HOUR
Deri or Yishai? Feverish contacts ahead of Rabbi Ovadia’s decision on who
will lead the party in the elections. (.).
WALLA!
1. „ADOPTION OF EDMUND LEVY REPORT – POLITICAL DAMAGE TO ISRAEL”
In the opposition, as well as within the Government, sharp disagreement
expressed over adopting report on legalizing settlement outposts. Netanyahu
made it clear that he intends to present, before the elections, a proposal
on the decision to approve some of its principles.
NANA10
1. GIFT TO THE SETTLERS: NETANYAHU WILL ACT TO ADOPT LEVY REPORT CONCLUSIONS
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 12:05.]
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Two papers discuss various issues ahead of the January 22 elections for the
19th Knesset:
Yediot Ahronot comments on Likud Minister Moshe Kahlon’s decision to take a
break from politics. The author asserts that, „Moshe Kahlon was politically
executed by all those who saw him as an obstacle to their upward path. He
has all the right qualities for success: He’s young, smiles all the time, is
balanced and liberal, came to politics from as low a place as possible, is
Sephardic and was a success at his Government ministry.” The paper adds,
„Kahlon’s very success was also his undoing. It is not the media and the
public that vote for him, it is the [Likud] central committee – and there
all the other candidates waited in ambush,” and suggests that Kahlon decided
to bow out first. The author muses, „Once, or so it is said, politicians
thought – first and foremost – about the good of the country and their
personal contributions to it. Today, they think mainly about themselves.”
Ma’ariv refers to possible political comebacks by Ehud Olmert and Aryeh
Deri. The author avers, „I think that someone who was convicted of breach of
trust and someone whose acquittal is being appealed to the Supreme Court are
unfit to stand before the public at the ballot box.”
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Yisrael Hayom criticizes a recent decision by several US Protestant churches
to urge the US Congress to reconsider aid to Israel „in light of widespread
Israeli human rights
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have the gall to call on the US Congress to limit military support to
Israel, the only country in the region in which Christians and members of
other faiths enjoy and are assured freedom of worship.”
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