2. SAAR EXPANDS TRIPS TO HEBRON TO INCLUDE ALL STUDENTS IN THE COUNTRY

MA’ARIV

1. KASSAM BARRAGE AT ISRAEL

After weeks of quiet in the south, eight Kassam rockets fired at communities in Shaar Hanegev Regional Council<http://www.sng.org.il/english-site/first.htm> area.

2. SOURCES INVOLVED IN THE INVESTIGATION: ESHEL WILL BE UNABLE TO RETURN TO THE BUREAU

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. PALESTINIANS REVEAL TO IDF: YOU FORGOT A SOLDIER

Armored Corp screw-up: Palestinian villagers reported on soldier who was forgotten in the field because they feared he might be lynched.

YISRAEL HAYOM

1. Gantz: Build capability and be prepared to use it at any moment.

CHIEF-OF-STAFF: CONTINUE DISRUPTING IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM

Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz at Herzliya Conference: "There is no doubt that Iran aspires toward a nuclear capability; the world and the region need to continue acting to isolate it."  "Every point in Israel is under threat: The Middle East is the most armed region in the world – and we are the target."  Last night: Kassam barrage at area around the Gaza Strip.

2. GLOBAL RESPECT FOR THE ISRAELI BRAIN

OECD study determines: Israel is the second most educated country in the world.  Approximately 45% have an academic degree.

WALLA!

1. GOC INTELLIGENCE: IRAN HAS ENOUGH URANIUM FOR FOUR BOMBS

In Herzliya Conference speech, Maj,-Gen. Kochavi warns that Iran will need three years to produce a nuclear bomb and fit it on a missile.  He says that Assad regime is about to collapse and that 200,000 rockets threaten Israel.

2. EIGHT ROCKETS FIRED AT THE SOUTH; IDF: "MISTAKE TO THINK THAT WE WON'T RESPOND"

In heaviest recent barrage at the south, eight rockets exploded in open areas, most in the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council Area or close to Sderot.  No casualties or damage.  Assessment: Due to Ban Ki-Moon's visit.

3. NETANYAHU SPEAKS WITH CLINTON: INTERESTED IN CONTINUING PROCESS

NANA10

1. GOC INTELLIGENCE: "IF IRAN DECIDES – IT WILL HAVE A NUCLEAR BOMB WITHIN THREE YEARS"

Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi sketched timetable for completion of Iranian nuclear program: "Achieving weapon depends mainly on decision-making and less on developing capability."  On rocket threat: "The enemy has 200,000 rockets and missiles."

2. ROCKETS RAIN DOWN ON SOUTH: SEVEN KASSAMS AT SHAAR HANEGEV REGIONAL COUNCIL AREA, NO CASUALTIES

[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 11:35.]

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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Yediot Ahronot comments that, "In 2003 when he was appointed, there were many who believed that, here, finally, we have a finance minister from the right.  He cut child support payments, cut income stipends, tried to lower the budget deficit, cut the defense budget and primarily talked about the fat cats – those receiving support – and the thin – those who produce and work.  Ronald Reagan and Margret Thatcher would have been proud of Benjamin Netanyahu.  Time has gone by and today we have a Prime Minister whose socio-economic allegiances have totally disappeared.  He enlarges budgets for the military and for 'law and order', all according to the right's tradition.  But when it comes to economy and society – here he favors a policy of allocations.  The right-wing government has become the government of hand outs.  Perhaps it would be worthwhile to blur the distinction between the thin majority who works and the fat cat minority that sits gurgling."

Ma'ariv contends that, "The Housing Minister should learn from [the late PM Yitzhak] Rabin.  He must not turn housing into a political matter.  And with all due respect to criteria, they are meaningless when there are no apartments."

Yisrael Hayom urges that any debate over the current electoral system be focused less on personalities and more on issues and the process itself.

The Jerusalem Post comments on political aspirant and TV celebrity Yair Lapid's accepted for a PhD program at Bar Ilan University without ever attaining so much as a bachelor’s degree: "It is one thing for an academic institution to hand out honorary titles but it’s quite another to enable the rich and/or famous to flaunt false intellectual trophies and glory in the highest academic degrees when they are anything but scholars. Bar Ilan, the Council for Higher Education found, was the only university to offer these curious catapults to academic prominence. With its shenanigans, Bar Ilan is only damaging itself. We congratulate the Council for ordering Bar Ilan’s 'special PhD track' to be discontinued."

Haaretz comments on the report submitted by the Public Security Ministry comptroller Yitzhak Segev in April 2010, now made public, calling it "a harsh indictment against police conduct": "The report cites hair-raising examples of complaints of police violence, which were not passed on to the Justice Ministry's Police Investigation Department as required by law. It notes the strange hours that the forensic laboratories work, police procedures that have not been updated for over a decade, managerial failures and gaps in professional knowledge. There is no explanation why the report was not published earlier. Had it been any other ministry, we could demand a police investigation. But in view of the report's findings, it is doubtful that we can rely on an investigation conducted by the police."

[Gideon Eshet, MK Eitan Cabel and Arik Carmon wrote today’s articles in Yediot Ahronot, Ma'ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]