Wednesday

HA’ARETZ

1. NETANYAHU: KADIMA WORKING AGAINST ME IN LIKUD CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

2. Stabbing attack in Gush Etzion.

IDF ASSESSMEMT: "INTIFADA OF STONES" LIABLE TO RETURN TO WEST BANK.

HATZOFEH

1. SUSPICION THAT OLMERT RECEIVED BRIBE FROM REAL ESTATE COMPANY.

Attorney General Mazuz to check information submitted by reporter Yoav Yitzhak that Olmert apparently received $300,000 bribe from Alumot real estate company, from which he purchased apartment on Carmiya Street in Jerusalem.  Olmert and Jerusalem Municipality issue denials.

2. "EZRA AND MOFAZ OBSTRUCTING WORK OF PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY COMMITTEE."

Outrage on Right over intention of ministers Ezra and Mofaz not to allow police and army officers to appear before Amona inquiry committee. 

3. 31% OF WORKERS EARN WAGE THAT IS INSUFFICIENT FOR BASIC NEEDS.

2005 unemployment declined to 9%.

4. MAN AND YOUNG WOMAN WOUNDED IN STABBING ATTACK AT GUSH ETZION JUNCTION.

5. PA: WE HAVE UNCOVERED TUNNEL ON EGYPTIAN BORDER, NEAR KEREM SHALOM.

6. DISAGREEMENT AMONG US LEADERSHIP OVER RELATIONS WITH ABU MAZEN AFTER HAMAS ELECTION VICTORY.

7. TWO KASSAM ROCKETS LAUNCHED AT NEGEV.

MA’ARIV

1. Today in Likud: Netanyahu to try to weaken Central Committee.

BIBI'S GAMBLE.

This evening: 3,100 Likud Central Committee members to vote on whether to give up their power.  Netanyahu's confidants: Defeat would be mortal blow.

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. NETANYAHU: KADIMA WORKING AGAINST ME IN LIKUD CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

Likud Chairman spoke at activists' conference ahead of today's dramatic vote on changing elections system.

2. US WARNS ITS CITIZENS AGAINST CRIME IN ISRAEL.

Unprecedented administration warning: "Violent clashes between criminal elements in Israel have led to death and injury among civilians."

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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Hatzofeh discusses a recent accident, which resulted in an explosion that injured seven people, at a RAFAEL plant in the Haifa suburbs.

Yediot Ahronot notes that both Labor and Likud have lost many voters to Kadima and asserts that, "As an avowed centrist party, neither left nor right, Kadima has turned the absence of an ideology into an ideology and the lack of a backbone into the advantage of constant flexibility."

[Sever Plocker today’s editorials in Yediot Ahronot.]