March 22 Headlines
Wednesday
HA’ARETZ
1. Greater Tel Aviv area attack foiled: Terrorist arrested in van on Highway #1.
AL QAEDA ESTABLISHING CELLS IN TERRITORIES.
The Cell: Headed by two Nablus residents accused of belonging to Al Qaeda and planning terrorist attacks. The recruiters: Suspicion – Those who recruited Nablus cell were members of network that perpetrated attacks in Amman in November. The intelligence: IDF Intelligence Branch estimated last year – Global Jihad paying increasing attention to Israel.
2. SIX DAYS BEFORE ELECTIONS: KADIMA WITH 36 SEATS, DROP FOR LABOR AND LIKUD.
3. NRP AND ARAB PARTIES – MOST ACTIVE ON SOCIAL ISSUES.
Study: MKs most active in social affairs were Gila Finkelstein and Abdulmalik Dehamshe.
HATZOFEH
1. Highest alert declared in morning – terrorist with bomb en route to Tel Aviv.
BOMB ATTACK FOILED.
Alert level raised following warning of terrorist's intention to perpetrate suicide attack. After terrorist was found on Highway #1, special units, accompanied by helicopters, were sent to capture him. Suicide terrorist with explosive belt caught after dramatic chase.
2. STATE COMPTROLLER TO INVESTIGATE HOW AUTHORITIES HAVE DEALT WITH BIRD FLU OUTBREAK.
Knesset Economics Committee: Government was not properly prepared for plague.
3. AMONA COMMITTEE CONCLUSIONS: OLMERT AND HALUTZ RESPONSIBLE FOR SCREW-UP.
4. POLL: KADIMA DOWN TO 33 SEATS.
5. ULEB CUP: HAPOEL JERUSALEM LOSES 84-83 TO DYNAMO MOSCOW.
MA’ARIV
1. Six days to elections. Right-wing plan – Lieberman as Leader of Opposition.
OLMERT TO SENIOR KADIMA OFFICIALS: STOP QUARRELING OVER PORTFOLIOS.
Acting PM's confidants concerned: If we don't receive enough seats – we will be obliged to concede senior portfolio.
MA'ARIV
2. CONCERN: TERRORIST ATTACK BEFORE ELECTIONS.
Major disaster prevented due to hot warning received by ISA. After hour-long chase, terrorist with explosive belt caught.
3. BECAUSE OF FLU: FISH PRICES RISE BY 15%.
Agriculture Minister admits: There were mistakes in dealing with outbreak.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Highest alert in wake of dozens of warnings.
EFFORT TO PREVENT ELECTIONS TERRORIST ATTACK.
Suicide bomber caught en route to Tel Aviv came unhindered from Jenin.
SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Hatzofeh discusses the bird flu crisis and says that, "It is possible to decisively prove that almost every product that enters the country with forged kashrut certification, or if the kashrut of the product was forged here, contains components of materials that endanger the public." The editors call for stepped-up enforcement against phony kashrut certification.
Yediot Ahronot says that unless there are any surprises, Israel's next Prime Minister will be Ehud Olmert and urges him to learn from the example of the late Prime Minister Levi Eshkol.
Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, suggests that the Dovrat Commission education reforms have been bedeviled and derailed by petty politics.
Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, commends Defense Ministry Deputy Director-General Victor Bar-Gil for burying the birds that were culled because they were infected with bird flu but decries the situation in which the Defense Ministry had to be called in and do work that should have been done by others.
[Eitan Haber wrote today’s editorials in Yediot Ahronot.]
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