1. BARAK TO HIS PEOPLE: I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SIT WITH OLMERT.

Prime Minister presents work plan for next six months.  About ten MKs consider kipping no-confidence vote today.

2. LIVNI DEALING WITH SYRIA.

3. MAN CRITICALLY WOUNDED BY PALESTINIAN FIRE WEST OF RAMALLAH.

One person moderately wounded in Kassam attack near Sderot; Abbas' forces uncover weapons and drug smuggling tunnel in Rafiah.

MAKOR RISHON-HATZOFEH

1. Winograd behind us, primaries ahead.

FIRST DECISION IN LABOR.

Knesset summer session opens today with no-confidence vote. Uncertainty on how Labor Party will vote, in which a battle is transpiring between those for and against quitting [Government].  Barak has yet to decide.

MA’ARIV

1. Eight-year-old boy on respirator following disturbances at Teddy Stadium.

CELEBRATION TURNS INTO NIGHTMARE.

2. BARAK: "I CANNOT SIT WITH OLMERT."

So he said in a conversation with Eitan Cabel.  Assessments: He will agree to join "cautious and responsible" Government headed by Peres.

3. IF NO SOLUTION IS FOUND: BISHARA WILL RECEIVE MILLIONS FROM KNESSET.

Azmi Bishara, although charged with spying and having fled to Lebanon, is entitled to a generous pension as a former MK.

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. STADIUM DISGRACE.

2. ISRAEL: NEW ERA IN RELATIONS WITH FRANCE.

Sarkozy elected President.

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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Makor Rishon-Hatzofeh hails Nicolas Sarkozy's victory in yesterday's second round of the French presidential election and suggests that it, "expresses the desire of the French people to tackle head-on the problem of the Islamic extremist irredenta and not to escape towards solutions based on surrender."  The editors hope that under his leadership France will take a more assertive position vis-ŕ-vis Iran's nuclear ambitions and Hezbollah's role in Lebanon.

Yediot Ahronot believes that, legal troubles aside, Avraham Hirchson was unsuited to be Finance Minister.  If Kadima retains the portfolio, the editors recommend that Meir Shetrit be appointed to the post.  However, the paper asserts that Labor MK Prof. Avishai Braverman is the most appropriate candidate for the position.

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