Thursday

HA’ARETZ

1. OLMERT: ISRAEL HAS FAILED IN ENFORCING THE LAW IN THE TERRITORIES; WE WILL HASTEN EVACUATIONS.

Yesha Council: "Field will burn"; thousands of police and soldiers to be moved to Amona evacuation.

2. New Labor Knesset list: Herzog second, Pines third and Braverman fourth.

INTERMEDIATE GENERATION WINS IN LABOR; PERETZ'S CONFIDANTS: PLACE WILL NOT BE RESERVED FOR BARAK.

3. In wake of Kassams: Hundreds of parents and children en route to psychologists.

HALF OF FAMILIES WITH TODDLERS IN SDEROT SUFFER FROM POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS.

HATZOFEH

1. Acting PM orders security forces to prepare comprehensive plan for new uprooting.

OLMERT DECLARES WAR ON OUTPOSTS.

At special meeting yesterday, Acting PM ordered security forces to immediately uproot Jewish community in Hebron wholesale market and to prepare to uproot Amona.  Olmert made it clear that time has come to use force and not to stutter – "This is a struggle for the law in Israel."

2. "THIS IS TURNING-POINT DAY."

Thus Labor Chairman Amir Peretz said after primary results became known.  Herzog in first place.  Ben-Eliezer confidants claiming that contract was put out on him.

3. COLLAPSE CONTINUES: THREE KASSAM ROCKETS FIRED AT ISRAEL.

Two rockets apparently landed close to Zikim; the third fell in the Gaza Strip.

4. RELIGIOUS ISRAELIS NOT ALLOWED TO ENTER JORDAN.

MA’ARIV

1. Acting PM reprimands security establishment heads: Get to work.

OLMERT'S IRON FIST.

Acting PM adopts especially assertive line against extreme right.  Demands from security establishment: Evacuate outposts immediately.  Chief-of-Staff: We are paying price of forbearance.  Mazuz: Step up policing in territories.

2. Patriotism survey reveals:

POOR LESS READY TO FIGHT FOR COUNTRY.

Report to be presented at Herzliya Conference: Youth and poor less patriotic.  25% of Israelis are ready to emigrate.

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. 1,000 SOLDIERS TO EVACUATE HEBRON AND OUTPOSTS.

Olmert orders evacuation to be brought forward.  Settlers: He is inciting civil war.

2. PERETZ DOESN'T WANT EHUD BARAK.

Labor Chairman ends guessing: Decides not to reserve place on list for former PM.

3. Last night: Yediot Ahronot and Mina Tzemach/Dahaf poll.

LABOR UP: JUMPS FROM 17 TO 21.  KADIMA STRENGTHENING: FROM 42 TO 43.  LIKUD DROPS: FROM 13 TO 12.  SHINUI DISAPPEARS: DOES NOT PASS VOTE THRESHOLD.

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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Yediot Ahronot asserts that, "The violence of the Jewish residents in Hebron and the irresponsible youths who are helping them, is enraging the public at large and embarrassing the more moderate settlers in Judea and Samaria."  The editors believe that Jews claiming property that was held by them prior to 1948 in areas that were subsequently occupied by Jordan will set a precedent regarding Arab-held pre-1948 property in areas that are now part of Israel.

Hatzofeh commends both the democratic process in which the Labor Party chose its Knesset list and the quality of its candidates, and contrasts both with the situation in Kadima.

[Yaron London wrote today’s editorials in Yediot Ahronot.]