1. DUBAI REVEALS 15 ADDITIONAL AGENTS; TEN HAVE NAMES OF ISRAELI CITIZENS.
Israeli Ambassador in Canberra summoned for clarification, after three of the agents carried Australian passports. According to Dubai police, at least two fled by boat to Iran after the operation. Mark Sklar, from Bat Yam, whose name is involved: "It's so unreal, it's funny."
2. SENIOR ISA MOLE IN HAMAS AIDED IN THWARTING ATTACK ON SHIMON PERES.
3. OF THE 150 HERITAGE SITES SLATED FOR PRESERVATION, NOT ONE BELONGS TO MUSLIMS OR CHRISTIANS.
MA’ARIV
1. ASSASSINS – THE SEQUEL.
Dubai police commander strikes again: 15 additional "Mossad agents" who – he claims – took part in Al-Mabhouh hit. New revelations: Israeli company issued incriminating credit cards.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Dubai presents: Mysterious female agents.
WOMAN POWER.
Hit on senior Hamas operative in Dubai presents: Women fighting behind enemy lines, changing wigs, hiding under hats, acting as lookouts. Dubai claims: 26 people participated in massive hit.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. The never-ending story: Dubai police reveal 15 additional suspects.
ASSASSINS, LOTS OF ASSASSINS.
After Dubai presented "Gail", "Kevin" and "Bodenheimer", please meet "Chester", "Abie", and "Anna". One terrorist, 26 suspected of involvement – and passports from Australia, which has already summoned the Israeli Ambassador.
WALLA!
1. AUSTRALIA: "FORGING PASSPORTS – UNFRIENDLY ACT."
Australian PM announces that Israeli Ambassador has been summoned for clarification, and makes it clear: "We will not allow this to pass quietly." Hamas now suspects that European countries were in on planning hit of organization's senior operative in Dubai.
NANA10
1. AUSTRALIA THREATENING "CONSEQUENCES": FORGING PASSPORTS IS UNFRIENDLY ACT.
Australian FM held clarification talks with Israeli Ambassador in Canberra following suspicion that Australian passports were used in Al-Mabhouh hit in Dubai. In his words, if suspicions are proven correct, "Australia will regard this as unfriendly act."
2. IRANIAN PRESIDENT IN SYRIA: "WE WILL STRUGGLE AGAINST ISRAEL TOGETHER."
3. "HE SUPPORTS ISRAEL'S POSITION ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR ISSUE."
Ban Ki-Moon: Promises that UN will do its utmost to advance sanctions on Tehran.
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 09:40]
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Three papers discuss the controversy over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to include Rachel's Tomb and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in a national plan to rehabilitate national heritage sites:
Ma'ariv believes that Prime Minister Netanyahu's decision "was a terrible mistake…In principle it is clear that these places are the heart of our heritage. But is it worth giving up on the peace process for justice?"
Yisrael Hayom advocates that Israel should persist in including the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb in its national heritage project. The author says that "Palestinian threats are due to their knowledge that heritage sites attest to our basic rights over the country."
Haaretz worries that PM Netanyahu's decision will create an unnecessary confrontation over Israel's heritage sites, and "threatens to turn a welcome initiative - one that deepens the link to Jewish heritage and the country's history - into a focus of contention with the Palestinians and the entire Arab world."
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Yediot Aharonot argues that "A government web site which dictates to its citizens what to think, what to say and how to defend it – its place is among fascist and dark nations. An attempt to market its political positions will only damage Israel."
The Jerusalem Post welcomes PM Netanyahu's comprehensive transportation reform plan, and asserts that Netanyahu is the first premier to recognize that "Improvement in public conveyances will shrink distances and demolish psychological barriers to residence away from the country’s economic and cultural hubs," and to propose a major overhaul of the country’s transportation infrastructure and mass transit system in light of this.
[Yariv Oppenheimer, Haim Navon and Lior Alperovich, wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot, Ma'ariv, and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]
