HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ
1. IN 2012 AS WELL: SUICIDE IS THE MAIN CAUSE OF DEATH IN THE IDF
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MA’ARIV
1. FOREIGN MINISTRY SOURCES: „RED LINES HAVE NOT BEEN CROSSED REGARDING THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN SYRIA”
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2. Coalition negotiations.
UNITED TORAH JUDAISM READY TO ACCEPT DRAFT COMPROMISE: WE WILL AGREE TO YA’ALON’S OUTLINE
Sources in ultra-orthodox party: Lapid’s plan will send tens of thousands of [ultra-orthodox] yeshiva students to prison – an alternative must be found. From tomorrow, party leaders will meet with President and recommend someone to task with forming the government.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. SOON: PAINFUL DECREES
Secret team appointed by Netanyahu estimates: Budget deficit requires larger-than-expected imposition of taxes and cutbacks. Plan: Raise NIS 10 billion worth of taxes and cut NIS 20 billion.
2. BETAR JERUSALEM REQUESTS: GAME WITHOUT FANS
Concerned over racist catcalls in game with Um Al-Fahm today at Teddy Stadium.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Obama telephones Netanyahu and congratulates him on election victory.
„OPTION IN SYRIA: BETWEEN BAD AND WORSE”
So Netanyahu said in meeting in Jerusalem with US Congressmen. Minister Dichter: „Keeping an eye on what is happening around arms depots.” Reports in Lebanon: Hezbollah personnel guarding chemical weapons depots.
WALLA!
1. OWNERS OF THE SUNDAY TIMES: „APOLOGIZE FOR THE CARTOON OF NETANYAHU”
NANA10
1. OBAMA CONGRATULATES NETANYAHU: I EXPECT TO WORK TOGETHER
Almost one week after the elections, US President telephoned PM and congratulated him on his elections victory<www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/28/readout-presidents-call-israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu >. „We must work closely.”
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 12:00.]
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot refers to the controversy regarding the possibility that the former head of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bureau, Natan Eshel<www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Spokesman/Pages/spoeeshel190212.aspx >, who resigned last February pursuant to a plea bargain with the Civil Service Commission, which determined that he had invaded a female staffer’s privacy by photographing her without her consent and entering her personal email account, might be part of Likud-Beytenu’s coalition negotiations team. The author says, „With all due respect to Eshel, this story is not about him, or at least he is not the central figure in it. The one who should interest us more is the person who employed him and who is still looking for every possible opening to return him to the center of affairs.” The paper adds, „And two words about the Prime Minister’s Office Legal Adviser, Shlomit Barnea-Pargo. It would be interesting to know what she thought when she cleared Eshel as a member of the coalition negotiations team. What does she think that same female staffer, in regard to whom Eshel admitted unbecoming conduct, felt when she heard that with the blessing of the adviser who is supposed to protect her, Eshel is making a comeback and, thanks to his new job, will be back hanging around the office?”
Ma’ariv asserts that Prime Minister Benjamin, „Netanyahu cannot – again – appoint a confidant as Finance Minister and operate him by remote control,” because, „Israel needs a brave person who will be capable of taking dramatic steps.” The author says, „This time, a known professional is needed, who will stand up for himself, who can be a team player, who does not expect to reap political rewards for himself, and who is not beholden to the coalition leaders.”
Yisrael Hayom discusses the internal situations in several of Israel’s major political parties following last week’s elections. Regarding Labor, the author notes the criticism of Shelly Yachimovich and speculates that, „If indeed a new vote for party leader will be held within 14 months, as called for in the party constitution, Yachimovich is liable to find herself facing outside candidates.” „In the Likud,” the paper ventures, „the struggle will be postponed to the day after the formation of the [new] government,” when more than one current Likud minister finds him or herself without a seat at the Cabinet table, given Yesh Atid’s demand to cut the current number of [28] ministers. In Yisrael Beytenu, the author suggests, „In the absence of Avigdor Liberman, who is awaiting trial, the knives are expected to come out even in the previous Knesset’s most disciplined faction.” The paper also predicts infighting in Shas since, „Aryeh Deri did not realize the hopes for which he received a spot in the leading triumvirate, and Eli Yishai and Ariel Atias will fight to block him.” The author refers to last Tuesday’s elections as, „an earthquake,” and adds, „The aftershocks are only beginning to be felt.”
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