HA’ARETZ

1. SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT: INCLUDE SHALIT DEAL IN GAZA TRUCE AGREEMENT.

2. WEARING BLACK ARMBAND, GRANT DEFEATS LIVERPOOL AND GOES ON TO FINALS.

MA’ARIV

1. State of Israel marks Holocaust Heroes' and Martyrs' Remembrance Day.

"WE HAVE SINNED."

"We failed by depriving the survivors of their right to live a life of quality and dignity," the Prime Minister declared, "Some of the survivors lived lives of wretchedness and poverty. There is no justification for this nor can it be forgiven.  We have changed this."

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. Israel united by memory of Holocaust victims.

WE WILL NEVER FORGET.

2. VICTORY WITH YELLOW BADGE.

Grant leads Chelsea to Champions' League finals wearing a black armband with Holocaust symbol.

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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Three newspapers discuss Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day:

Ma'ariv believes that "The further we move from those dark days, the deeper the memory of the Holocaust has become in all fields – arts, literature, sculpture, television and the cinema."  The editors note that "The UN General Assembly declared the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz as International Holocaust Day, not at the end of World War II, but 50 years later."

Yediot Aharonot writes: "On Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, we are entitled – we are commanded – to make it clear that there is not, and will never be, a situation in which evil will be done to the State of Israel and those who perpetrate it, and those who assist them, do not pay the full price.  The precept 'Never again' means not only that we will never again be defenseless, but that those who hurt us will not get away with it."

The Jerusalem Post discusses two main issues relating to the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day: The poor financial status of many holocaust survivors in Israel, and the delegitimization of Israel and Jewish nationalism in the name of a progressive "universalism" which now finds fertile ground in the same European soil that hosted the genocide of the Jews. These two issues, concludes the editor, are the essence of Yom Hashoah.

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Haaretz praises Egypt in its mediating efforts between Israel and the Palestinians, now that it seems all 12 Palestinian factions in Gaza have accepted the proposed terms. The editor calls on Israel to gradually remove sanctions from Gaza, and to promote diplomatic steps vis-ŕ-vis the Palestinian Authority.

[Uzi Arad and Joseph (Tommy) Lapid wrote today’s articles in Yediot Ahronotand Ma'ariv, respectively.]