1. FM CONTINUES TO BECOME ENTANGLED: SUSPECTED OF RECEIVING MATERIALS FROM INVESTIGATION AGAINST HIM FROM AMBASSADOR TO BELARUS
Yesterday: Minister Avigdor Liberman investigated on suspicion of obstruction of justice and breach of trust. This is after his confidant, Zeev Ben-Aryeh, admitted to police that in summer of 2008, he showed him secret material from investigation against him that Justice Ministry had delivered to Belarus authorities.
2. AT NETANYAHU'S REQUEST: JERUSALEM MAYOR SUSPENDS PLAN TO DEMOLISH HOMES IN SILWAN
MA’ARIV
1. Another affair: Foreign Minister suspected of obstructing investigation.
LIBERMAN, THE AMBASSADOR AND THE SECRET DOCUMENTS
Suspicion: Zeev Ben-Aryeh, confidant of FM, acted as mole when he served as Ambassador to Belarus and delivered to Liberman classified material on his investigation. State Prosecutor: We will decide whether or not to indict within weeks. Liberman: Police under pressure.
2. NETANYAHU FOLDS AGAIN
Rebels win: PM decides against holding vote on his proposal to postpone Likud internal elections.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. LIBERMAN AND THE AMBASSADOR
Police: Former Ambassador to Belarus admitted to delivering to Liberman's confidants secret material from investigation against him. Liberman later appointed him an adviser. Liberman: I refused to accept the material.
2. NETANYAHU'S TRICK FAILS
PM tried to change Likud constitution so as to enable postponement of elections for party institutions – and folded.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. "DECISION ON LIBERMAN FILE WITHIN WEEKS"
According to State Prosecutor. FM investigated in additional affair: Concern that Israeli Ambassador to Belarus revealed to him classified investigation file sent by Israel Police. Suspicion: Obstruction of justice and breach of trust. Liberman: Today, I will ask High Court of Justice to investigate police leaks.
2. RIGHT-WING: "SHOOTING ON HIGHWAY #443 PROVES HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE'S MISTAKE."
Last night: Fire directed from Palestinian vehicle at IDF position.
WALLA!
1. Liberman appeals to High Court of Justice.
"INVESTIGATE POLICE COMMISSIONER FOR OBSTRUCTING MY INVESTIGATION."
This morning: After having been investigated yesterday on suspicion of obstruction of justice, FM accused Police Commissioner of leaking details of his investigation. "This was intentional and tendentious obstruction. This is the mother and father of obstruction of justice."
2. MUBARAK TO NETANYAHU: YOU ARE PROVOKING ARAB SENSTIVITIES.
Egyptian President speaks by telephone with PM and warns him of, "dangerous consequences of invasion of Al-Aqsa Mosque." PM's Bureau to Arab newspaper: "He is ready to meet with Assad at any time and even to invite him to Jerusalem."
3. SHOOTING ON HIGHWAY #443: "BEINISH SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO THE IDF."
Right-wing MKs sharply attack Supreme Court President in wake of attempted terrorist attack adjacent to Highway #443. MK Katz: "Beinish should apologize to IDF for compelling it to allow Arab traffic on the highway soon."
4. US: "WELCOMES POSTPONEMENT OF SILWAN CONSTRUCTION."
In wake of request from PM Benjamin Netanyahu, establishment of Gan Hamelekh project in eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan postponed. US: Israel and Palestinians are moving closer to dialogue."
NANA10
1. "WHAT POLICE HAVE DONE IS THE MOTHER AND FATHER OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE."
Against background of publication of suspicion of obstruction of justice, FM attacks Police Commissioner and claims that investigation details were intentionally leaked. Liberman appeals to High Court of Justice with demand to investigate the leak. Claims that he will not resign. "Even in 2012, I will be FM," he claims.
2. REPORT: PM AGAIN CALLS ON ASSAD TO RESUME NEGOTIATIONS.
Asharq Alawsat: PM's Bureau sent message to Damascus.
3. PALESTINIANS OPEN FIRE AT IDF POSITION ON HIGHWAY #443.
[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
Yediot Ahronot contends that, "It would seem that the time has come to kindly say to Mr. Liberman, with all due respect, go, please go." The author professes that, "Shame can be destructive: A society that does not respect its own ministers will have difficulties in maintaining democracy's rules-of-the-game for very long."
Ma'ariv faults Education Minister Gideon Saar for not strongly backing his ministry's chief scientist who said that Israeli students, "need to study additional views apart from Darwinism," and reminds its readers that, "Hundreds of prestigious scientists, in both the past and present, among them a Nobel laureate in biology, have seen and see Darwinism as complete idiocy."
Yisrael Hayom recalls that, "Zeev Jabotinsky worked to mobilize public opinion in favor of the Zionist idea. That is exactly what the State of Israel is doing now, defending its ideas. Not apologizing for its existence. It is engaging in active, not defensive, PR. It is a modern, developed and free country. Its democracy is for all of its citizens and it advocates freedom of worship that did not exist under any previous regime in the history of the Land of Israel. We are here by right and not by sufferance. When we are true to this, when we explain this succinctly and without hesitation – the Arab world, as well as the entire world, will also understand it."
The Jerusalem Post comments on the sixth international Israeli Apartheid Week, which kicked off last Monday, and states that "Instead of adopting anti-Semitic newspeak, Israel’s representatives need to perfect the craft of hitting back diplomatically – 'to delegitimize the delegitimizers,'" and adds: "Part of that task is knowing the despicable history of the apartheid libel, understanding whose interests it serves and, most importantly, protecting free speech against those who would deny it."
Haaretz commends Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi on his decision to oust one of the most daring and creative of the younger generation of commanders from the IDF after he was found guilty by a military tribunal, and notes that while Ashkenazi could have avoided the dilemma by sending the officer on educational leave, "He preferred to set an obligatory, binding standard on everyone." In conclusion, the editor states that "The chief of staff cannot award a medal to himself, but Ashkenazi deserves commendation for being guided by his head and not his heart."
[Nahum Barnea, Menachem Benn and MK Ofir Akonis wrote today’s articles in Yediot Ahronot, Ma'ariv, and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.] 
