Aug 5. Headlines
Sunday
HA’ARETZ
1. ABBAS WILL DEMAND FROM OLMERT EXPLICIT TIME-TABLE IN FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT.
2. BRITISH ULTIMATUM TO ISRAEL: CONVICT OR EXTRADITE IDF SOLDIERS ACCUSED IN MURDER OF BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHER IN RAFIAH.
3. THOUSANDS TO PARTICIPATE TODAY IN HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS' MARCH. PM WILL MEET WITH THEIR REPRESENTATIVES ON WEDNESDAY.
MA’ARIV
1. Breaking the silence.
OLMERT: MARCH IS A DISGRACE.
Prime Minister against organizers of holocaust survivors' march: "They should be ashamed. My family escaped from the Nazis. Me they're attacking?"
2. TODAY: PROTEST MARCH FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS.
Who will not be at the march in Jerusalem? The Minister of Welfare.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Disclosure – Olmert's enhanced proposal.
PRESSURE HELPS: THOUSANDS MORE SHEKELS FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS.
Proposal formulized by Minister Rafi Eitan: Thirty thousand impoverished survivors will receive NIS 1,000–6,000 monthly. Eighty thousand from former Soviet Union will receive NIS 500. Survivors: For now not canceling protest march.
2. PERES 84.
President celebrated his birthday.
MAKOR RISHON/HATZOFEH – Unavailable today.
SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Haaretz warns that the never-ending problems of the absorption of Gush Katif evacuees in the Israeli economy and the inflated cost of the evacuation may deter against further evacuations.
The Jerusalem Post discusses the unilateral name changing of the College of Judea and Samaria at Ariel to the Ariel University Center of Samaria which has sufficed to generate blistering political heat. But, the editor declares, the question of whether the West Bank college deserves an upgrade should be academic, not political.
Yediot Ahronot suggests that a Kadima-Labor block is virtually a matter of fact, with the only remaining question being: Which Ehud will lead this 48-mandate political block into the 2008 elections.
Ma'ariv reminds Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah that, according to Islam, the withholding of information from the families of prisoners is considered an anti-Muslim abuse.
[Eitan Haber and Hamis Abulafia wrote today’s articles in Yediot Ahronot and Ma'ariv, respectively.]
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