Summary of editorials from the Izraeli Hebrew press
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HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ
1. VATICAN: CONCERNED BY LACK OF CONTROL REGARDING HATE CRIMES
Catholic Church says it was asked to remove sign welcoming the Pope „in order not to stir things up.”
2. ASSESSMENT IN THE LIKUD: NETANYAHU’S ATTEMPT TO POSTPONE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HAVE FAILED
PM worked to postpone election by six months and establish committee to evaluate the office – but did not secure majority for the move. Sources in the know regarding the initiative: He is obsessed.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Attorney General drops the gloves:
PLAN FOR WAR ON „PRICE TAG”
Weinstein considering Administrative detention for those suspected of hate crimes. Cabinet to soon discuss declaring „Price Tag” activists as a terrorist organization.
2. Following murder of Shelly Dadon: Thousands demonstrate in Afula
„STIFFER PUNISHMENTS FOR MURDERERS”
(…) Today: Ministers to discuss proposal by MK Shaked to make it more difficult to release murderers. 20 bereaved families call on Minister Livni to drop her opposition
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Outrage in Israel: „Someone is trying to disrupt relations with the US”
„ISRAEL SPY IN VICE PRESIDENT’S AIR-CONDITIONING DUCT”
Newsweek again publishes report about Israeli espionage that „crosses red lines” in the US. (…). Steinitz: „Intelligence cooperation with the US is excellent.”
2. DEFENSE BUDGET: HOME FRONT EXERCISE CANCELLED
Defense Ministry: „This is not a game, the money is gone.” Netanyahu: „Genuine crisis.” Outrage in the Finance Ministry: „Administrative failure.”
WALLA!
1. KUNEITRA CROSSING DECLARED CLOSED MILITARY ZONE DUE TO FIGHTING ON BORDER
2. „PRICE TAG” IN PETAH TIKVA: GRAFFITI SPRAYED AT BUILDING SITE
3. PALESTINIAN WHO APPROACHED THE FENCE IN THE NORTHERN GAZA STRIP SHOT
NANA10
1. PETAH TIKVA: GRAFFITI SPRAYED AT BUILDING SITE ON EVEN HASAPIR ST.
2. PALESTINIAN MAN SHOT BY IDF FORCE CLOSE TO BEIT LAHIYA
[Headlines from Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 11:05.]
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot notes that Al-Quds University Prof. Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi recently led a group of Palestinian students on a visit to Auschwitz and has written and lectured about the trip. The author informs her readers that, „The Palestinian media has called him ‘traitor’ and ‘collaborator’, the lecturers’ union has announced that it is expelling him for ;normalizing’ and a group of students burst into his office, ran amok, broke things, threw out his secretary and left behind letters warning Dajani not to return to campus.” The paper points out, „Abu Mazen, who gave his Ramallah speech condemning the Holocaust, has not bothered to help him.”
Yisrael Hayom links the current American media reports on alleged Israeli espionage in the US to the ongoing negotiations to exempt Israelis from visas to enter the US. The author dismisses the allegations and asserts, „If the Americans do not want to issue Israelis entry permits without visas, they should find another pretext.”
