HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ
1. OBAMA: NEARING AGREEMENT ON SOLUTION TO THE FISCAL CLIFF.
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2. RAPE OF ELDERLY WOMAN IN SOUTH TEL AVIV REIGNITES HATRED OF MIGRANTS.
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MA’ARIV
1. LOCAL PROPERTY TAXES AND WATER MORE EXPENSIVE, MINISTERS’ AND MKS’ SALARIES GO UP.
Prices of many basic goods and services to jump from today and over the coming months. Included in wave of price increases: Public transportation, poultry and milk. Concern: Sharp tax increase immediately after elections.
2. THE RAPE AND THE RAGE.
3. Efforts to secure his release.
ISRAELI YOUTH ARRESTED IN EGYPT.
Andrei Chetekov (24) imprisoned in Port Said after entering the country without a passport. His mother: „He is a peace activist – not a terrorist.”
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. PROTEST OF THE AMBASSADORS.
Israeli diplomats’ conference turns into show of protest against Government policy: UN Ambassador Prosor questioned the logic of building in E-1 – and was applauded. National Security Adviser reacted with outrage: „Resign or go into politics.”
2. THERE IS NO LIMIT/BORDER.
Eritrean infiltrator suspected of raping 83-year-old woman in south Tel Aviv.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Revulsion, rage and fear in south Tel Aviv: Eritrean infiltrator arrested on suspicion of raping an 83-year-old woman.
EGYPTIAN BORDER FENCE COMPLETED.
For first time since 2006: Only 36 infiltrated from Sinai last month. (…).
WALLA!
1. WALLA! POLL: LIKUD CONTINUES TO WEAKEN, BENNETT STABLE AT 15.
Jewish Home continues to maintain momentum for another week, according to TNS-Teleseker poll. Likud Beytenu at 34, Labor at 18, Kadima hovering around threshold. Also in poll: 43% of Bennett voters – not religious.
2. MORSI’S ADVISER: „ISRAEL WILL BE ERASED FROM THE MAP IN ANOTHER DECADE.”
(…). Morsi’s office: He does not represent the President.
3. PALESTINIAN VEHICLE SET ALIGHT: „TODAY – PROPERTY, TOMORROW – LIVES.”
Suspicion of Jewish terrorism south of Bethlehem: IDF forces located burnt vehicle in Beit Omar next to graffiti: „Price-tag” and „A good Arab is a dead Arab.” IDF searching for those responsible.
NANA10
1. VEHICLE SET ALIGHT NEAR BETHLEHEM: „REVENGE FOR YITZHAR.”
Unknown persons set vehicle alight in Beit Omar and spray-paint anti-Arab graffiti: „A good Arab is a dead Arab.” IDF: „We view the incident with severity.”
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 12:45.]
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot discusses the recent Supreme Court decision allowing MK Hanin Zoabi to run in the upcoming Knesset elections: „Zoabi symbolizes the drawbacks that vex the democratic electoral system. Not because she wasn’t properly elected but because she inflicts considerable damage on the public she is supposed to represent. Instead of drawing Israeli Arabs closer and advancing them, instead of flying the flag of the Arab secularism from whence she sprang, instead of being a bridge and a symbol of co-existence – Zoabi, from her first day in the Knesset…has been a pyromaniac who zealously adds fuel to the fire of already tense relations.” The author adds: „If it depended on me, I would be happy to see her out of the next Knesset, enjoying her pension along with her comrade Michael Ben-Ari.” The author asserts that he is, „no blind devotee of the Supreme Court,” but he, nevertheless, says, „As an Israeli, I am proud that there is a Supreme Court in Israel that can decide otherwise. In the reality in which Israel’s policies are attacked on all sides, the Supreme Court is a legal shield. In the reality in which the political extremes are more vocal than the center, the judicial authority is a national bit and bridle. In a state that lives on its sword, the Supreme Court is a symbol of democracy and moral strength.”
Ma’ariv questions the efficacy of the Government’s policy goal of repatriating illegal infiltrators to their countries of origin. The author suggests conditioning the issuing of work permits on an arrangement in which 50% of a foreign worker’s salary is deposited in a special bank account that he/she may withdraw from only upon leaving the country.
Yisrael Hayom discusses the controversy over President Shimon Peres’ recent remarks about Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. While the author agrees that, „The president of the state does not need to take a one-sided position on controversial issues during an election campaign,” he says that, „The heart of the problem lays in the content of his remarks.” The paper avers that President Peres ignored much in Abbas’s record and says: „Abbas renounced the right of return and does not want to return to Safed? This is throwing sand in our eyes. He personally will not return to Safed because he hopes to sit in the Palestinian government house in Jerusalem but he has not renounced the right of return for millions of descendants [of refugees]. This Peres did not say.”
BreuerPress-info
