HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ
1. DOCTORS CONSIDERING NOT REQUIRING CARING FOR HIV CARRIERS
Stormy Israel Medical Association discussion on whether to bar doctors from refusing to treat HIV carriers over fear of infection. (…).
2. OBAMA NOMINATES HAGEL AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: „I AM NOT ANTI-ISRAEL”
3. GUSH ETZION REGIONAL COUNCIL SUBMITTED FALSE STATEMENT TO HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN ORDER TO PREVENT DEMOLITION OF OUTPOST
MA’ARIV
1. APPARENT: COL. EREZ WEINER TO BE DISMISSED IN WAKE OF HARPAZ REPORT
(…).
2. CONCERN IN US: NETANYAHU WILL WORK TO TORPEDO HAGEL’S SENATE CONFIRMATION
Washington reassuring Jewish organizations: Chuck Hagel, Obama’s candidate to be Secretary of Defense, is not „anti-Israel.”
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Two weeks until the elections.
THE FRONT THAT WASN’T
Attempt to unite Center-Left into blocking majority vis-à-vis Netanyahu ends in explosion and recriminations. Lapid and Yachimovich: Livni played us. Livni: Their behavior was violent.
2. HAGEL: „I AM NOT ANTI-ISRAEL”
Obama’s candidate to be Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, who opposed attack on Iran, trying to reassure the Jewish lobby.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. After three-way meeting, Yachimovich and Lapid attack:
„LIVNI USED US FOR SPIN”
Contacts on establishing Center-Left bloc founder. Movement Chairperson says she proposed joint campaign calling on Israelis to vote for one of the three parties. Yachimovich and Lapid outraged: „She presented mendacious version of the meeting.” Livni: „Violent and unnecessary reaction.”
2. CONCERN IN ISRAEL: CHUCK HAGEL APPOINTED AS AMERICAN SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
At special press conference, Obama announced controversial appointment. (…). Hagel claims: I am not anti-Israel, I completely support Israel.
WALLA!
1. WALLA! POLL: RIGHT MAINTAINS ITS STRENGTH; BENNETT DECLINES
(…). Gap between blocs stays the same. Bennett declines to 13 seats and Amsalem passes the threshold. Likud with 34 seats, Labor with 18.
2. RECORD: KINNERET RISES 22 CENTIMETERS IN ONE DAY
(…).
NANA10
1. CHANNEL 10 POLL: LIKUD DECLINE HALTED
Two weeks before the elections, minor changes in polls. High number of undecided voters. (…).
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 12:20.]
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot refers to former ISA Director Yuval Diskin’s recent press interviews and remarks: „At the head of Israel’s security establishment stand people. It is their right to like the Prime Minister of to be disgusted by him. It is their right to criticize in closed sessions, it is their right (some would say their responsibility) to try to fix what can be fixed. Criticism of Netanyahu is voiced by Diskin, Dagan and Ashkenazi, occasionally. They liked Olmert as Prime Minister and they despise Netanyahu, his replacement. The Israeli street thinks precisely the opposite. Electorally speaking, Netanyahu and his worldview are more popular. The former senior [security heads] are in the minority.”
Ma’ariv believes that, „The attempt to present [Chuck] Hagel as some sort of anti-Semitic enemy of Israel, is ridiculous. Correct, Hagel wants the USA to talk directly with Iran, and no, he is not convinced that war is a necessary result of the nuclear crisis there. He wants to avoid it at almost any price; and in that he is no different from President Obama or Hillary Clinton. Hagel understands that Israel is an ally, but he has no values-based relation with it. While this is not something that is particularly hopeful, it is nothing new.”
Yisrael Hayom refers to the three major Center–Left parties, after their unsuccessful attempt to unite, as „The bloc that blocks itself.” But the author asserts that, „A unity that cannot materialize now, can certainly materialize later, at the most critical time – just before President Peres decides whom to assign the task of forming the [next] government.”
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