Tuesday

HA’ARETZ

1. Sinai terrorist attack: Assessment that Al Qaeda is responsible; approximately 5,000 Israeli in Sinai, not known if there are any casualties.

AT LEAST 30 KILLED IN SERIES OF SINAI BLASTS.

Border crossing: Few Israelis returned to Israel by this morning.  Readiness: IDF put special rescue unit forces on alert.  Aid: Egypt refused Foreign Ministry offer to send Israeli help.

2. Holocaust Day events began last night with main Yad Vashem assembly.

AHMADINEJAD: "WHY ARE THE GERMANS PAYING FOR THE HOLOCAUST?"  KATSAV: "SHAMEFUL VOICES RECALLING DARK TIMES."

3. ABU MAZEN: MASHAL LEADING TO WAR.

In his words, head of Hamas diplomatic bureau is working for Syria.

HATZOFEH

1. BOMB ATTACKS IN SINAI.

No Israeli casualties.  25,000 Israelis entered Sinai since Passover despite Counter-Terrorism HQ's warning – approximately 1,800 Israelis now in Sinai.

2. "JEWS WERE A MORAL THREAT TO THE NAZIS."

Sixty-one years later: Decline in number of anti-Semitic events, increase in their severity.  Bergen-Belsen survivor: Disengagement was Holocaust.  Halutz: Evacuees' use of sentence "We will neither forgive nor forget" cheapens memory of Holocaust. 

3. OLMERT AND PERETZ AGREE: NO DEPUTY MINISTERS.

4. NETANYAHU'S CONFIDANTS: SHALOM TRYING TO CRAWL INTO GOVERNMENT.

5. KARADI TO YESHA COUNCIL: AMONA LEFT US WITH SCARS TOO.

6. INTEREST RATES RISE BY 0.25%.

MA’ARIV

1. ISRAELIS SAVED FROM EXPLOSIONS.

Israel offered rescue assistance.

2. WE WILL NEVER FORGET.

Holocaust Day events began last night with main Yad Vashem assembly.  Olmert: "Anti-Semitism, bigotry and terrorism have not disappeared. 

3. OLMERT PUTTING TOGETHER EXPANDED ECONOMIC PORTFOLIO FOR LIEBERMAN.

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. TERRORISM AT DAHAB.

Foreign Ministry: No Israeli casualties.  Olmert telephoned Mubarak, consoled him, discussed with him need to cooperate in war on global jihad and offered medical assistance.

2. WE WILL NOT FORGET.

Israel shows solidarity with memory of six million who were murdered in Holocaust. 

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EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Yediot Ahronot asserts that, "The Holocaust was an inseparable part of 20^th century European civilization."  The editors believe that, "It is no shame in the Islamic world to deny the holocaust.  It is even a right: It is permitted to scream openly that the Jews falsified history and invented the horrors of the holocaust in order to steal Arab land."  The paper calls on the government to take better care of elderly Holocaust survivors who live in the country.

Hatzofeh says that, "Olmert and Peretz will face very severe labor pains upon the establishment of the government," and doubts whether the new government will finish a full four-year term in office.

[Sever Plocker wrote today’s editorial in Yediot Ahronot.]