1. COMPROMISE CANDIDATE: BENNY GANTZ TO BE APPOINTED DEPUTY CHIEF-OF-STAFF.
DM and Chief-of-Staff agree on appointment after Ashkenazi vetoed Galant as his deputy.
2. HISTORIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR ISRAELI NATIONAL TENNIS TEAM: ADVANCED TO DAVIS CUP SEMI-FINALS.
MA’ARIV
1. THE COMPROMISE.
Joint decision to choose Benny Gantz as next Deputy Chief-of-Staff.
2. ON TOP OF THE WORLD.
National tennis team makes history: Israel advances to Davis Cup semi-finals. Significance: National team is one of the four best in the world.
3. AMBASSADOR TO EGYPT SCANDAL.
Foreign Minister decides to appoint Yisrael Beytenu activist Shaul Kamisa as Ambassador in Cairo. Outrage in Foreign Ministry. Concern in Egypt. Police still investigating affair in which his brother handed out purchase vouchers for him in local elections.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. "CHIEF-OF-STAFF WANTS TO THROW ME OUT OF THE IDF."
GOC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant amazed: Benny Gantz appointed Deputy Chief-of-Staff instead of him.
2. EMPIRE.
Israeli national tennis team among the four best in the world.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. DEADLY COMBINATION.
Alcohol and high speed – these, suspect the police are the factors behind the chilling accident that occurred yesterday near Beit Shemesh.
2. HISTORY!
Atop the tennis world: Israeli national team defeats Russia 3-0 and advanced – for the first time – to the Davis Cup semi-finals.
3. EGYPT: HAGAI HADAS TO ARRIVE THIS WEEK.
Will present what Israel has agreed to regarding Shalit deal.
4. NEXT DEPUTY CHIEF-OF-STAFF: BENNY GANTZ.
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot strongly rejects National Security Council Chairman Prof. Uzi Arad's recent remarks that the current Government, "inherited a scorched-earth policy vis-ŕ-vis dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat," and declares, "Regarding the meager achievements to date of the government that Arad advises, not only accuracy but also a little modesty might be in order."
Ma'ariv criticizes the integration of women soldiers in IDF combat units and says that, "The astounding fact is that the IDF has set a different bar for male and female soldiers serving in the same combat units. In other words: Less is demanded of the women. While the ladies are highly motivated and have strong values, it seems that their physical abilities are less then that of the men. The fact is that the IDF has been compelled to demand less from them...We must not impair the IDF's capabilities because of an obsession with a false ideal of equality."
Yisrael Hayom notes that Hagai Hadas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's appointee to handle the negotiations for Gilad Shalit's release, has been linked to an ongoing scandal regarding a skin patch, whose backers – one of whom has a criminal record for fraud – claim can detect heart-attacks. The author asserts that, "While Hadas is neither a criminal nor a suspect, he has lost something deep and fundamental from his personal prestige, which is so important to his national responsibility for conducting the negotiations for the release of Gilad Shalit. This is the time for a friendly parting. Good-bye Hagai. We will meet again in the future if –Heaven forbid – it becomes necessary but you need a time-out and so do we."
The Jerusalem Post criticizes recent governments for their handling of the dwindling supply of water and the ongoing water crisis, and states that "Household water savings cannot ameliorate the enormous shortage created by nearly a decade of low precipitation and a lack of desalination facilities." Detailing the government's non-acquiescence to attempts by several municipalities to establish their own desalination plants, the editor states that "What government bureaucracy and wrongheaded penny-pinching has frustrated for all too many years may be facilitated by private entrepreneurship and local enterprise. Nothing but good can come from decreasing central government control, especially when it has been far from successful in addressing this ongoing crisis."
Haaretz notes the annual decline in the number of matriculating high school students, and finds it unacceptable. The editor calls on PM Netanyahu to make good on his election campaign promises, and to ensure that the best people go into teaching, to make sure students achieve more and assure high-level education to everyone, and adds that "No national task is of greater importance."
[Dov Weisglass, Chaim Navon and Dan Margalit wrote today’s articles in Yediot Ahronot, Ma'ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]
(Courtesy of Israel GPO) 
