HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ
1. NORTH KOREA ACCELERATES EQUIPPING OF ITS ARMY AND CALLS ON FOREIGN AMBASSADORS TO BE EVACUATED (…).
2. PRO-PALESTINIAN HACKERS BEGIN ATTACK ON ISRAEL WEBSITES As of now, hackers have broken into hundreds of Facebook pages and have toppled small websites.
3. BENNETT: LAPID NOT ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT TWO STATES SOLUTION
4. FINANCE MINISTRY DIRECTOR-GENERAL
– WOMAN WHO IMPLEMENTED NETANYAHU’S CUTS
MA’ARIV
1. APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR-GENERAL INDICATES NEXT BUDGET: CUTS AND BLOWS TO SOCIAL WELFARE Yael Andoran, 42, who is in advanced pregnancy, to become first woman to serve as Finance Ministry Director-General. Last night: Hundreds demonstrate outside Yair Lapid’s home in protest against anticipated cuts in support payments.
2. Holocaust Heroes’ and Martyrs’ Remembrance Day.
LAST REMNANTS
Holocaust Heroes’ and Martyrs’ Remembrance Day events to begin at 20:00 in Warsaw Ghetto Square at Yad Vashem. 1,000 Holocaust survivors pass away in Israel every month. Their average age: 84.
3. On alert:
LAST NIGHT: START OF MUSLIM HACKERS CYBER ATTACK ON ISRAEL. REPORTS OF SLOWDOWNS IN SURFING
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Holocaust Heroes’ and Martyrs’ Remembrance Day events to begin at 20:00.
1,000 HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS PASS AWAY EVERY MONTH Holocaust Heroes’ and Martyrs’ Remembrance Day eve: 192,000 survivors living in Israel.
2. CYBER ALERT
In wake of threats: IDF, ISA and major organizations in Israel ready for Palestinian hackers’ attack expected for today.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Holocaust Heroes’ and Martyrs’ Remembrance Day
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marking 70 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
NEVER AGAIN
Holocaust Heroes’ and Martyrs’ Remembrance Day events to begin at 20:00 with official assembly at Yad Vashem. Six survivors to light six torches in traditional ceremony. Tomorrow: IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz to lead „March of the Living” between Auschwitz and Birkenau along with soldiers and officers.
2. CYBER ATTACK: ISRAELI HACKERS RETURN FIRE Attack has already begun: Yesterday, sever websites were vandalized and Facebook accounts were broken into. Group of hackers broke into Anonymous website.
WALLA!
1. CYBER ATTACK: PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE, DEFENSE MINISTRY & EDUCATION MINISTRY WEBSITES DOWN Anonymous-affiliated hackers make good on their threats and overnight began to down many Israeli websites, including government sites. Most websites returned to operation in a few hours.
2. NETANYAHU ANNOUNCES NIS 50 MILLION TRANSFER TO HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
NANA10
1. LAPID CANCELS BI-ANNUAL BUDGET: „GUILTY FOR THE DEFICIT”
Finance Minister announces that as of 2015, Israel will go back to annual budgets, with which it will be possible to better manage economic policy. Current budget, which will be approved in the coming months, to apply until end of 2014.
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 11:00.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Ma’ariv comments on the appointment of Yael Andoran as Director-General of the Finance Ministry and notes, „the gigantic task,” that has been placed on her shoulders. The author reminds her readers that Andoran, „is the first woman to break the thick glass ceiling in the Finance Ministry,” and adds, „She paved the way with hard work.”
Yediot Ahronot analyzes events on the Korean peninsula and suggests, „The North Koreans have nothing against us. They are simply looking for friends who are ready to pay for them for the judgment day toys that they are marketing without shame.” The author says, „Even when the crisis is over it will have a very bad lesson for us. Iran’s rulers are studying the picture: On the one hand, what happened to Moammar Khadafy
– he agreed to give up his nuclear weapons project in return for Libya’s being reaccepted into the family of nations. If he had had nuclear weapons when the disturbances broke out in his country, there is no doubt that NATO would not have intervened there and it could be that Khadafy would still be in power. On the other hand –
North Korea, which developed nuclear weapons and thanks to them has managed to blackmail the West and impose terror on its neighbors. From Iran’s point-of-view, the necessary conclusion is that there is nothing like a nuclear bomb to ensure the survival of the regime, and this is the only thing that, in the end, interests the ayatollahs.”
Yisrael Hayom discusses Amira Hass’s recent article in Ha’aretz, entitled „The inner syntax of Palestinian stone-throwing”, in which she wrote
– inter alia – that, „Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule.” The author characterizes the decision to run the article as expressing, „the degeneration – to the point of complete paralysis –
of the value of the free press in Israel,” and says that it could play into the hands of those who would like to restrict freedom of expression in Israel.
