1. Today in New York: Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meeting.
OBAMA IN FINAL EFFORT TO FORMULATE JOINT DECLARATION AT END OF SUMMIT.
Among the proposals: US President will declare settlement freeze and call for peace conference to restart negotiations.
2. DESPITE SUMMIT: BETAR ILIT BEGINS CONSTRUCTION OF NEW NEIGHBORHOOD.
MA’ARIV
1. Today at 18:30 (Israel time): Tripartite summit in New York. Outwardly, American President's people are taking care to maintain low expectations. But senior Obama administration official says: "Plan is for summit to soften opposition on both sides."
SENIOR WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL TO MA'ARIV: "DESPITE EVERYTHING, WE ARE HOPING FOR START OF DIALOGUE."
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. UN again giving platform to Holocaust-denier.
ISRAEL: BOYCOTT AHMADINEJAD'S SPEECH.
Foreign Ministry appeals to leaders: Don't leave representatives in the hall when Iranian president speaks. Most countries respond: It depends on what he says. Today's summit: Obama to pressure Netanyahu to freeze settlements.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. SUMMIT, HALF SUMMIT.
Today: Tripartite summit. White House: "Obama does not have grand expectations." Palestinians: "This is a courtesy meeting." Israel: "Palestinians are not ready for anything." Then what to expect? Statements – and pictures.
WALLA!
1. SOLDIERS KILL DRIVER WHO FAILED TO STOP AT WEST BANK CHECKPOINT.
Eastern Jerusalem resident shot to death near Beta Ilit after – according to IDF claim – he tried to run roadblock. One soldier lightly wounded. IDF: We will investigate the incident.
2. OBAMA EFFECT TO WORK ON NETANYAHU AND ABI MAZEN?
This morning: Sources in PM's entourage continuing to lower expectations, but add that Obama will act with full weight of his office in order to reach achievement. UN Ambassador: "This is the start of a process that has barely begun." Barak, in US: "Agreement to include declaration on end of the conflict."
NANA10
1. TRIED TO RUN OVER SOLDIER AT CHECKPOINT – WAS SHOT AND KILLED.
IDF soldiers shoot eastern Jerusalem resident who ran roadblock near Mevo Betar. One soldier lightly wounded; IDF investigating the circumstances.
2. PANIC IN THE NORTH FOLLOWING EXPLOSIONS HEARD NEAR NAHARIYA.
Concern was over Katyusha attack, but it became clear that it was Air Force activity in the north.
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:50]
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Five of the editorials discuss today's tripartite summit meeting in New York:
Yediot Aharonot argues that "It doesn't really matter what Ahmadinejad will say in his UN speech. The fact that they are giving the stage to a serial Holocaust denier, who defrauds elections in his own country and murders opposition demonstrators, is a great scandal. Any contact with the Iranian president, direct or indirect, is like a stab in the back of the freedom-striving Iranian people and a moral crime against the Jewish people."
Ma'ariv cites The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: "'If you want to shoot, shoot; don't talk', and he was right. The Americans talked, chattered and boasted, and in the end gave in, at least for the time being."
Yisrael Hayom professes that "The matter of Netanyahu and Abu Mazen is important. His course of action regarding Iran is fateful."
Nana10 says that "The uncertainty among the media regarding the content of the leaders' summit in New York is considerable. On one hand, there is no doubt that the gaps in rhetoric between Israel and the Palestinians are tremendous, but whoever said that rhetoric is everything?" The author does not believe that US President Obama is wasting his time just for the sake of a photo-op: "This is the opportunity for him to work his magic and for Bibi to be politically courageous for the first time in his term."
The Jerusalem Post discusses the Obama administration foreign policy reversals, especially those related to the Middle East, and states that Netanyahu and Abbas must "both be asking themselves a question neither would have anticipated eight months ago: Can America be relied upon and taken seriously?" The editor adds that "That uncertainty can only further undermine the prospects for a substantive Israeli-Palestinian breakthrough - a breakthrough all three players at today's summit profess to fervently desire."
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Haaretz expresses optimism at the upturn in the economy, as expressed by an impressive increase in the number of positions for which employers are seeking new workers, and declares that "The primary lesson that can be derived from the Israeli economy's rapid recovery from the crisis is that we cannot live beyond our means.".
[Sever Plocker, Ben Caspit, Dan Margalit and Ran Adelist wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot, Ma'ariv, Yisrael Hayom and Nana10, respectively.]
(Courtesy of Israel GPO and the MFA) 
