HA’ARETZ

1. WINOGRAD: YOU FAILED.  OLMERT: I WON'T GO.

"We hope that the findings will constitute a push to Israeli society's confronting anew its long term aspirations and towards the correct path to advancing them."

2. OLMERT'S CONFIDANTS: THEY HUNG HIM OUT TO DRY.

Senior Kadima figures against PM: He must resign by final report presentation.

3. PERETZ: I WON'T RESIGN.

Halutz: I disavow any attempt by other to pass on responsibility.

4. THURSDAY: DEMONSTRATION AT [RABIN] SQUARE.

Organizers undecided on whether to invite politicians.

MAKOR RISHOR/HATZOFEH

1. GO HOME.

Despite all the preparations, the Winograd Committee Interim Report was surprisingly forceful and conclusive: Olmert failed and is fully responsible; Peretz and Halutz failed the system.  Prime Minister: I will not resign; Political establishment and protest movements awakening.

MA’ARIV

1. Olmert's confidants: He won't succeed in remaining in office after a report like that.

ON THE WAY OUT.

The country waited eight months for the Winograd Committee Interim Report, and yesterday it became clear: It is a public and political earthquake.  Last night Olmert insisted: "I'm not resigning."

2. "TZIPI LIVNI MAY RESIGN."

3. FORGIVENESS OF NORTHERN HOMEFRONT.

4. PROTEST SPEADING TO ENTIRE COUNTRY.

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. Olmert shocked by severity of Winograd interim report. Confidants:

"GUN TO THE HEAD."

Prime Minister personally responsible for faults and failure to exercise consideration, caution and responsibility.  Defense Minister failed in properly fulfilling his position due to lack of experience, did not understand and did not consult.  Chief-of-Staff failed as supreme commander and demonstrated lack of professionalism.

2. HALUTZ INSTRUCTS TO EJECT JOURNALISTS REQUESTING HIS RESPONSE.

3. PERETZ'S CONFIDANTS: HE DID NOT CONSULT ENOUGH AND THIS IS NO REASON FOR OUSTING.

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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Makor Rishon-Hatzofeh declares that, "Since the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister are failing to show the proper political responsibility and maturity, the public and the media must do so and focus the debate on the important points," raised in the Winograd Committee's interim report.

Yediot Ahronot says that the Winograd Committee's interim report is, "the paper gravestone of Ehud Olmert's government," and adds that, "The Prime Minister and the current Government have finished their career."

Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, suggests that, "Even after publication of the report last night, it is, perhaps, possible to continue to rely on the IDF – but from time to time it is worthwhile to ask questions, to make comments, to try to understand, to express astonishment and to criticize.  The situation in the IDF is so depressing, according to the Winograd report that it would be better to sleep with eyes half-open.  There is a good reason to lose sleep."

Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, ventures that Israel needs not only a new government and IDF General Staff, but a more tenacious people, in light of a possible war with Syria and the Iranian nuclear threat.

Yediot Ahronot, in its fourth editorial, notes that former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigned in 1977, "not because of an unnecessary war," but because his wife held $20,000 in a then illegal foreign bank account.

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