Wednesday

HA’ARETZ

1. SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS: WE WILL SUPPORT WITHDRAWAL BUT WILL NOT RECOGNIZE IT AS FINAL BORDER.

2. THE DEAL: CONSTRUCTION OF E-1 POLICE STATION IN EXCHANGE FOR STRUCTURE FOR SETTLERS IN EASTERN JERUSALEM.

3. ASSESSMENT: AGREEMENT WITH LABOR TO BE SIGNED TODAY.

Demand to appoint Sneh as Deputy Defense Minister.

HATZOFEH

1. Israeli spy satellite successfully launched into space.

KEEPING AN EYE ON IRAN.

New 'EROS-B' successfully satellite from Russian launch site.  Satellite due to provide high quality pictures, has improved ability to scan ground data and can transmit data quickly.  Satellite due to significantly improve Israel's ability to monitor Iran.  Defense Minister Mofaz: "This is a great achievement and proves that Israel relies – first and foremost – on itself."

2. LEADING THE MARCH OF THE LIVING.

Eight thousand people, most of them high school students, held 'March of the Living' yesterday from Auschwitz to Birkenau in Poland.  Rabbi Lau and MK Peres – who called on Iranian President to visit site and understand it – led March.

3. DESPITE DAHAB TERRORIST ATTACK, ISRAELIS STAYING THERE.

4. STOCK EXCHANGE AT ALL-TIME HIGH.

5. STABBING ATTACK FOILED NEAR BETHLEHEM.

6. APPARENT: LABOR-KADIMA COALITION AGREEMENT TO BE SIGNED TODAY.

MA’ARIV

1. In weekend interview, Matan Vilnai sharply attacks Labor Chairman.

VILNAI: "PERETZ IS A FAILURE."

First senior Labor figure to openly criticize Chairman: "Elections were complete failure."  Because of his ego, Peretz cannot give in on another minister-without-portfolio."

2. THE COUNTRY'S EYES.

Israeli spy satellite that will keep eye on Iranian nuclear installations, launched into space.  Mofaz: "Israel needs to rely – first and foremost – on itself."

3. DOLLAR AT NEW LOW: NIS 4.527.

Euro also weakened.

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. Labor faction raising demand ahead of entry into coalition:

"PERETZ NEEDS DEPUTY AT DEFENSE MINISTRY."

Senior Labor party figure: "Peretz cannot function alone in that post.  Even he understands this."

2. ISRAELI SPY SATELLITE ALREADY TAKING PICTURES.

Following successful launch from Russia, EROS-B's cameras are monitoring what is going on at 'interesting sites'.

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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Yediot Ahronot calls on Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Labor Party Chairman MK Amir Peretz to follow up on their decision not to appoint any deputy ministers in the new government and also decide not to appoint any ministers-without-portfolio.

Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, says that Minister Avraham Hirchson's participation in the March of the Living is far more important that his possible appointment as Finance Minister in the new government.

Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, discusses this week's terrorist bombing at Dahab in Sinai.  The editors aver that, "The terrorism approaching us from the Sinai is of the Al-Qaeda variety," and call on the security establishment to be more vigilant in guarding the Egyptian-Israeli border.

Hatzofeh asserts that, "The one and only way to weaken the extremist terrorist organizations is to eliminate without hesitation all of those who preach in mosques and the ideologues who dispatch suicide terrorists but watch their own skins," and calls on the government to eliminate the Hamas leadership, including Ismail Haniye.

[Eitan Haber wrote today’s editorials in Yediot Ahronot.]