March 16 Headlines
Thursday
HA’ARETZ
1. NETANYAHU UNDER PRESSURE: RIGHT-WING VOTERS NOT RETURNING.
Dialogue poll for Ha'aretz and Channel 10 News: Kadima – 37, Labor – 20 (+1), Likud – 16 (-1).
2. Hospitalized at Hadassah.
AMERICAN MEDICAL EXPERTS CRITICIZE PM SHARON'S TREATMENT IN HOSPITAL.
HATZOFEH
1. APPROVAL OF MEDICINES BASKET – ONLY AFTER ELECTIONS.
2. STATE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE UNDECIDED ON WHAT TO CHARGE ZEEVY'S MURDERERS WITH.
Murderers, and those who planned murder, of Rechavam Zeevy, including Ahmed Saadat will apparently not be tried a second time because they were already sentenced by PA court.
3. ISRAEL WILL SOON RETURN TO PA MOST CRIMINALS WHO WERE CAUGHT IN JERICHO PRISON.
Security establishment estimates: Criminals likely to confess to crimes they did not commit in order to stay in Israel and not be returned to PA.
4. PFLP TRIED TO ASSASSINATE OLMERT THREE YEARS AGO.
5. TWELVE ROCKETS LAUNCHED AT NORTHERN NEGEV.
For second time within a week, infiltration attempt from Gaza Strip by Palestinian terrorist armed with grenade foiled.
6. FORMER MEIMAD SUPPORTERS MEET WITH OLMERT AND EXPRESS SUPORT FOR KADIMA.
7. SURPRISE: FEBRUARY CPI ROSE BY 0.6%.
MA’ARIV
1. Kadima hopeful: Netanyahu will be ousted after elections.
SENIOR KADIMA OFFICIALS: WE WILL GO TO UNITY WITH SILVAN.
"If Shalom chairs Likud," being said in Kadima, "we will be able to sit with him in government." Likud claiming: They're trying to stir up trouble. Elections for 17th Knesset underway: Polling station opened in Australia last night.
2. MA'ARIV-TELESEKER POLL LAST NIGHT: LIKUD LOSES TWO SEATS.
Kadima – 39, Labor – 20, Likud – 15.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Yediot Ahronot-Mina Tzemach/Dahaf poll following capture of Zeevy's murderers:
JERICHO EFFECT.
Gloomy atmosphere in Likud and Labor over polls results: We are not succeeding in closing the gap. Kadima – 39 (+2), Labor – 19 (-1), Likud – 15 (+1).
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Hatzofeh calls on the Knesset committee of inquiry into the events at Amona to draft guidelines for the Israel Police on dealing with demonstrations in the future.
Yediot Ahronot suggests that Acting Prime Minister Olmert was not motivated by electoral politics when he ordered Tuesday's raid into Jericho. However, the editors remark that until both Israelis and Palestinians, "learn that justice does not belong to one side only, we will continue to kill and be killed."
Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, discusses the latest student unrest in Paris.
Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, disputes Shimon Peres recent remarks that the Labor Party was never socialist.
[Yaron London wrote today’s editorials in Yediot Ahronot.]
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