HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ
1. PM striving for coalition with Shas and Yesh Atid.
LIKUD MINISTERS: NETANYAHU WANTS GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BENNETT
2. Criticism from right and left:
TODAY: TRANSITION CABINET TO DISCUSS OUTLINE FOR BEDOUIN COMMUNITIES
MA’ARIV
1. Lapid’s triple threat:
„EQUALITY IN SHARING THE BURDEN, REDUCTION OF THE GOVERNMENT AND RESUMPTION
OF NEGOTIATIONS – OR WE WILL SIT IN OPPOSITION”
First obstacle in coalition negotiations: Senior Yesh Atid figures warn that
their party will not compromise so much as „a millimeter” on its three main
points. „If Likud wants us to be in the opposition, we’ll be in opposition.”
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. „MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION IN FORDOW”
Iranian intelligence agents that defected to the West: Underground uranium
enrichment facility near Qom destroyed last week.”
2. ULTRA-ORTHODOX BETWEEN YAALON AND LAPID
Shas and United Torah Judaism signal willingness to compromise on equality
in sharing the burden.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. EGYPT ON VERGE OF ‘STATE OF EMERGENCY”
(.).
2. „GOAL OF NEGOTIATIONS: CLOSING WITH LAPID FIRST”
Sources close to Netanyahu: „He will try to bring in the ultra-orthodox
afterwards.” „Bennett also has a good chance.” Lapid: „Not talking about
portfolios.” Likud officials: „Not ruling out Mofaz’s return to the party.”
WALLA!
1. NETANYAHU SIGNALS HIS PARTNERS: „I WANT A BROAD GOVERNMENT”
PM also refers to situation in Syria after having convened a special
security meeting on the issue last week and ahead of his meeting today with
the US Ambassador. „Establish a broad government in order to meet the
threats.”
2. FLOODS IN THE ARAVA, KINNERET CONTINUES TO RISE
(.). Kinneret rises by four centimeters and is now two meters from being
full.
NANA10
1. Netanyahu warns:
„WEAPONS IN SYRIA ARE NOT WAITING ON THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS AND THE
FORMATION OF A GOVERNMENT”
Several days after convening a security discussion on the issue of the
chemical weapons in Syria, PM referred to the threat: „Syria is coming
apart.” „I aspire to form the broadest possible government.”
2. 18-YEAR-OLD PALESTINIAN APPREHENDED IN EFRAT: „I PLANNED TO CARRY OUT AN
ATTACK”
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 12:05.]
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
All three papers discuss various issues regarding the provisional results of
last Tuesday’s elections for the 19th
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Yediot Ahronot discusses which ministry would be best for Yesh Atid leader
Yair Lapid: „Lapid will not be Defense Minister or Finance Minister. Even
though he has expressed his desire for it, he will also not be satisfied –
with his 19 seats – with the Interior or Housing ministries. What’s left for
him is the Foreign Ministry.” The author refutes any analogy to then Labor
leader Amir Peretz’s taking the Defense Ministry after the 2006 elections:
„Peretz could never be at home in the offices of the General Staff or on the
battlefield; Lapid could easily fit in as Foreign Minister. The world will
embrace him, Obama and Kerry would soften up. He would prove that it is
possible to be an efficient and respectable Foreign Minister without the
niceties and the perks.”
Ma’ariv rebuffs Labor leader Shelly Yachimovich’s critics: „Yachimovich will
learn from her mistakes and will serve as a true opposition leader. One may
hope that the Labor Party will not devour her as it has its previous
leaders.” The author believes that, „While Yachimovich may not be ‘the ideal
leader’, after the conceptual confusion of the Barak era, she has restored
to Labor its social identity.”
Yisrael Hayom says that the kind of coalition agreement(s) Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu strikes with Jewish Home and/or Shas will necessarily
depend on the kind of agreement he makes with Yair Lapid, since the Likud
Beytenu-Yesh Atid axis will determine the guidelines for the next
government.
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