HA’ARETZ
1. PM TO TELL LIVNI: IF YOU'RE UNDERMINING ME – RESIGN.
Poll: 40% of public wants elections, 68% want Olmert to resign.
2. Defense Minister in first interview after Winograd report:
PERETZ: "WORD 'FAILURE' REGARDING ME APPEARS IN VERY LOW DOSAGE."
3. PLANNING FOR EVACUATION OF WEST BANK OUTPOSTS.
State Prosecutor's Office to High Court of Justice: Plan to evacuate outposts – "from the easiest to the hardest" – to be submitted by end of May.
MAKOR RISHON-HATZOFEH
1. The day after: Political establishment in turmoil.
KADIMA CRUMBLING.
Avigdor Yitzhaki challenges Prime Minister, Tzipi Livni under pressure to resign. All agree that Olmert's days as Prime Minister are numbered.
MA’ARIV
1. Foreign Minister's confidants: She will call on PM to go home.
LIVNI: OLMERT MUST RESIGN.
Today: Acting Prime Minister will break her silence. Livni convinced: After report, Olmert cannot remain in office. Last night: Former Chief-of-Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak acceded to PM's request and has agreed to head team on implementing Winograd report's conclusions.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. FOREIGN MINISTER LEADING STRUGGLE IN KADIMA LEADERSHIP. LIVNI VS. OLMERT: YOU FAILED, RESIGN. OLMERT TO SUMMON LIVNI TO MEETING AND WILL DEMAND: STOP UNDERMINING OR RESIGN.
PM's advisers fear that Livni's resignation will accelerate collapse of Government. Warn: If Olmert falls – the entire Government is disbanded.
2. Last night: Yediot Ahronot and Dr. Mina Tzemach-Dahaf poll.
65%: OLMERT MUST GO.
Succession battle in Kadima: Even between Peres and Livni. 51%: Must go to elections.
3. SHAHAK TO SUPERVISE IMPLEMENTATION OF REPORT CONCLUSIONS.
4. SETTLERS STOLE FURNITURE FROM PALESTINIANS FOR LAG B'OMER BONFIRE.
Youths from Hebron Jewish community plan to burn it during Lag b'Omer festivities.
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Makor Rishon-Hatzofeh believes that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ouster is imminent and says that the new elections are the only viable alternative.
Yediot Ahronot declares that thanks to the Winograd Committee, today is a good day for the State – the day in which the flag of accountability has returned to Israel.
[Rami Tal wrote today’s editorials in Yediot Ahronot.]