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HA’ARETZ
1. ONE DAY PRIOR TO ELECTIONS: EXCEPTIONAL CLASH BETWEEN NETANYAHU AND [CENTRAL ELECTIONS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN] JUDGE RUBINSTEIN OVER PROHIBITED ELECTION PROPAGANDA
2. BARAK CHANGES ROUTE OF SECURITY FENCE IN ORDER TO DISTANCE PALESTINIANS FROM E-1
3. ARAB LEAGUE CALLS UPON ISRAELI ARAB TO VOTE
MA’ARIV
1. Likud-Beytenu’s last card: Kahlon to be appointed to head Israel Land Administration Council.
NETANYAHU: HOUSING REFORMS LIKE WITH CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS. YACHIMOVITCH: FUTILE APPOINTMENT THAT ATTESTS TO PANIC
(…). Whole move depends on legislative changes and is liable to drag on for months. Last night, Central Elections Committee Chairman barred broadcast of Netanyahu’s and Kahlon’s press conference and ruled it was election propaganda.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Elections 2013: 24 hours to go.
„LAST MINUTE MANEUVER.”
(…).
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. „KAHLON WILL REVOLUTIONIZE HOUSING, LIKE HE DID WITH CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS”
(…).
2. IN 24 HOURS: ISRAEL GOES TO VOTE
(…).
WALLA!
1. CENTRAL ELECTIONS COMMITTEE BARS BROADCAST OF LABOR PRESS CONFERENCE.
2. PALESTINIAN OUTPOST ESTABLISHED NEAR JERUSALEM ON FRIDAY EVACUATED
NANA10
1. LABOR PARTY PRESS CONFERENCE BANNED FROM BROADCAST.
2. SECURITY FORCES EVACUATE PALESTINIAN OUTPOST ESTABLISHED LAST FRIDAY.
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 13:00.]
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
All three papers discuss various issues regarding tomorrow’s elections for the 19th Knesset<www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Modern+History/Historic+Events/Elections_in_Israel_January_2013.htm>:
Yediot Ahronot reminds its readers that both the Sephardic ultra-orthodox Shas and the religious Zionist Jewish Home are using the Shas-affiliated and religious Zionist schools and yeshivot, respectively, for overtly political purposes and recalls previous cases – the disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria, for one – in which this was done. The author complains that, „The institutions of state have become used to the idea that in the ultra-orthodox and religious Zionist education networks it is OK to do politics while educators in the general state network are forbidden from revealing their views even outside the classroom.” The paper observes, „Constant and patient ideological education is the key to political victory, and the processes described above are one of the explanations for the electoral strengthening of the religious and ultra-orthodox right,” and speculates, „If the wheel ever reverses direction, it will only be in another generation or two, when the new elites tire and when their complete victory causes them to lose their caution.”
Ma’ariv discusses the impact of new media and social networks on the elections and suggests, „We are now beginning to internalize what Obama in the US learned a long time ago.” The author asserts, „According to professionals in the know about what is going on at the parties’ headquarters, budgets for new media and social networks in the current elections will be 25%, if not more, of every large party’s campaign budget,” and cites one campaign strategist as saying, „Today, it is possible to state unequivocally that campaigns will no longer be as they were in the past. From now on, it is social media on the Internet and cellular phones that will set the tone.”
Yisrael Hayom avers, „[Central Elections Committee Chairman] Judge Elyakim Rubinstein wisely barred media from broadcasting Benjamin Netanyahu’s election announcement that he is appointing [outgoing Communications Minister] Moshe Kahlon as the Chairman of the Israel Land Administration,” and adds, „The statement is flawed because the Prime Minister does not appoint officials on behalf of the government that will be formed after the elections, and because it is intended to be implemented only in another six months. If the housing plight is so acute that it requires an appointment two days before the elections – why not immediately? Why only after he [Kahlon] returns from his trip to the US?” The author suggests that the appointment, „indicates great concern in Likud circles,” over the possibility that Prime Minister Netanyahu might find it difficult to manage an unwieldy, and possibly narrow, government after the elections, and ventures that, „It will not succeed because it will be seen as panic, and not a solution to the housing prices.”
