Sunday

HA’ARETZ

1. OLMERT COORDINATED EVACUATION STATEMENT WITH US.

In wake of Acting PM's interviews – Mubarak: Borders must be determined by negotiation, a state cannot do this on his own.  Mashal: Unilateral disengagement is, in effect, declaration of war on Palestinian people.  Netanyahu: Elections are referendum on additional disengagement; we will not sit in such a government.  Peretz: Labor will not concede on negotiations, unilateral moves are last option.

2. MOFAZ: YAALON'S REMARKS ON IRAN WERE UNNECESSARY.

HATZOFEH

1. Four rockets and one anti-tank missile fired at Israeli territory over weekend.

US ACTING TO TORPEDO ESTABLISHMENT OF HAMAS GOVERNMENT.

Financial Times reports that US is pressing moderate PA elements not to join Haniye government.  Hamas-Fatah talks fail.

2. AGAIN: CAR OF POLICE OFFICER CONNECTED TO AMONA EVACUATION TORCHED.

Ezra: Due to arson, we will not allow police officers to testify before committee.

3. YISHAI: JUDGE BEINISH – "CHAIRWOMAN OF THOUGHT POLICE."

Shas's sharp attack on Judge Beinish in wake of disqualification of elections broadcast.

4. BRITISH FM: ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR PTOGRAM – NEXT IN LINE AFTER IRAN'S.

MA’ARIV

1. Likud Chairman to Ma'ariv: Olmert's program is dangerous.

NETANYAHU: I WILL NOT SIT IN OLMERT GOVERNMENT.

"We will be unable to join coalition based on Judea and Samaria unilateral withdrawal plan," Benjamin Netanyahu tells Ma'ariv.  Kadima: Netanyahu leading culture of fear and incitement.  For first time: Labor election broadcast against Olmert.

2. FILE AGAINST LIEBERMAN TO BE CLOSED SOON.

Senior legal source: File expected to be closed due to lack of evidence.  Investigation dealt with his links with businessman Martin Schlaff.

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. First publication: Likud's action plan vs. Palestinians.

"NO DIPLOMATIC HORIZON."

Likud formulated its diplomatic plan: No to negotiations with the Palestinians, no to the Roadmap, no to the entry of workers.  Netanyahu to Yediot Ahronot: "Hamas must be fought now."

2. Yaalon continuing.

"WE MIGHT HAVE TO ATTACK INFRASTRUCTURE TARGETS IN GAZA."

Olmert joins attacks on former Chief-of-Staff: "This is nationally irresponsible."

3. IRAN'S NUCLEAR HASIDIM.

Delegation of Netorei Karta visited Iran in order to support Ahmadinejad in his struggle against Israel and against supervision of his country's nuclear program.  One rabbi: "What the Zionists are doing to the Holocaust – is angering the Arabs, who are not to blame."

4. NEW ON LIST OF BILLIONAIRES: YITZHAK TSHUVA FROM NETANYA.

Eleven Israelis on Forbes magazine's list of world's richest people.

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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Hatzofeh asserts that, "The diplomatic program of Prime Minister-designate Ehud Olmert – if indeed he wins the elections – will win him the 'Friend of Hamas' citation," and declares that, "Olmert is acting according to Hamas's interests."

Yediot Ahronot says that, "The chance to refashion Israel's reality'…begins with each citizen's readiness to give these elections a chance."

Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, suggests that too many politicians and other public figures are running off at the mouth regarding Israel's options vis-ŕ-vis Iran.

Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, believes that the elections are a referendum on, "the continuation of the occupation."

[Yael Gvirtz wrote today’s editorials in Yediot Ahronot.]