HA’ARETZ

1. PERES: NOT RULING OUT BEING APPOINTED PRIME MINISTER BUT I WILL NOT LEND A HAND TO OLMERT'S OUSTER.

Spoke in response to questions from Kadima MKs.

2. HAMAS REJECTS US PLAN TO IMPROVE ISRAEL-PA RELATIONS.

3. BORDER POLICE KILL THREE FUGITIVES IN WEST BANK.

In response to incident, Palestinians fire rockets at Sderot – one scored direct hit on house.

4. DUE TO FORCED LANDING, ISRAELI SPENT 24 HOURS IN TEHRAN.

MAKOR RISHON-HATZOFEH

1. ROCKET ATTACKS ON NORTHERN NEGEV; IDF CONTINUES TO SHOW RESTRAINT.

Yesterday morning: Rocket makes direct hit on Sderot home – no casualties.  Terrorists: Firing in response to elimination of three terrorists in Jenin.  Border Police undercover unit attacked near Jenin by seven-man terrorist cell; three terrorists killed.  One had been released from Israeli prison three months ago and returned to perpetrating attacks.

2. INCREASING OPPOSITION WITHIN LABOR TO QUITTING THE GOVERNMENT.

Peretz and Ben-Eliezer – from Barak's camp – spoke in public yesterday against quitting, which is liable to lead to early elections.

3. RED CROSS: NO BASIS TO CLAIMS THAT EGYPTIAN POWS WERE KILLED.

International Red Cross informed Egypt that its documents contain no testimony regarding killing of Egyptian POWs in 1956 and 1967 wars.

MA’ARIV

1. Argument among PM's advisers: Whether or not to fire Livni.

TODAY: OLMERT AND LIVNI, ROUND #2.

PM and FM to meet again today, with threats from PM's aides in the background.  In meantime, senior Kadima figures threaten: If Labor threatens to quit – we will topple Olmert.

2. Drama ends well.

HOURS OF FEAR ON TEHRAN RUNWAY.

Flight to India – with 32-year-old Israeli man aboard – obliged to land in Iran.  "Iranians treated me well."

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. Today is "Reservists Appreciation Day."  Infantry battalion reservists complain:

THERE IS NO AMMUNITION, NO FOOD AND NO TRAINING.

Eight months after the war – what has really changed?  Reservists who arrived for training were astounded: "There weren't enough bullets for firing range exercise."

2. Israeli in Tehran.

"I WAS AFRAID BUT THE IRANIANS WERE FINE."

Benny Medvediev, 32, from Rehovot was on Turkish flight to India when plane suddenly landed in Tehran due to fault.  "Iranian security men told me: 'We know that you're Israeli but you have nothing to worry about'."

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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Makor Rishon-Hatzofeh complains that the Government is ignoring the crisis in education system.  The editors add that it is not sufficient to solve the immediate problem of teachers' wages and call for immediate steps to raise the level of education in Israel to standards worthy of it.

Yediot Ahronot suggests that, it is not enough to say, "Enough!", whether it is in reaction to Hezbollah kidnappings or an irresponsibly conducted war.  Thought must also be given to the course of action to be followed afterwards.

Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, believes that no matter how much we complain, the chances of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert taking heed are, "like those of the editors learning Turkish."

[Yael Gvirtz wrote today’s editorials in Yediot Ahronot.]