1. In earlier cases, Ehud Olmert was investigated at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem. This morning, six weeks after the Holyland affair blew up, he will – for the first time – go to the national fraud squad's offices in Lod. Severe suspicion: Receiving bribes. His confidants accuse: "Police making a production out of this."
IN THE INTERROGATION ROOM.
2. POLICE: PUT LIBERMAN ON TRIAL.
3. ASHKELON BOYCOTTING THE EXERCISE.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. BREAD CARTEL.
2. OLMERT IN THE INTERROGATION ROOM.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Bank of Israel decides: Mortgage only up to 60% of the unit price – instead of 70%.
THE APARTMENT IS MOVING FURTHER AWAY.
2. TODAY: OLMERT AT THE POLICE STATION.
Police: Try FM Liberman and former Ambassador Ben-Aryeh.
WALLA!
1. Holyland affair:
OLMERT INVESTIGATED AT FRAUD SQUAD OFFICES FOR FIRST TIME.
2. ASHKELON PARENTS BOYCOTTING HOMEFRONT EXERCISE.
In protest over lack of protection at educational institutions, parents' committee barring students from participating in home front exercise.
3. HEZBOLLAH HOLDS DRILL ON ATTACKING AN ISRAELI OUTPOST.
Yesterday: Hezbollah held exercise on attacking an Israeli position. Exercise similar to attack that preceded 2006 abduction of two IDF soldiers.
NANA10
1. HOLYLAND AFFAIR: OLMERT INVESTIGATED AT FRAUD SQUAD OFFICES FOR FIRST TIME.
2. "RULING OUT USE OF FORCE IF TALKS FAIL."
Abu Mazen says that there is no alternative other than appealing to UN Security Council.
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:20. The print edition of Ha'aretz was unavailable today.]
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot urges the Government, the Jewish Agency and Israeli youth movements that send emissaries abroad, to invest effort and resources in reaching the children of Israeli émigrés in order to kindle their identity with Israel.
Ma'ariv discusses the controversy over ethnic discrimination at an ultra-orthodox school in Emanuel and reminds its readers that, "There is greater Sephardic representation in the 'racist' track at the ultra-orthodox school than there is on the Supreme Court that ruled against the school."
Yisrael Hayom calls on Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and State Prosecutor Moshe Lador to decide quickly on whether or not to indict Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, over the various suspicions against him, and former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in the Holyland affair, or close the investigations against them.
The Jerusalem Post views the proposed bill to take away some of the amenities enjoyed by Hamas terrorists currently incarcerated in Israeli prisons as a positive move by the government. Intended as an attempt to pressurize Hamas to improve the living conditions of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, the editor feels that the denial of benefits and opportunities to Hamas inmates that Israel has no moral obligation to provide, while remaining thoroughly committed to the provisions of international law on the treatment of prisoners, represents a belated – albeit slight - correction of balance. The editor hopes that this and other efforts will hasten the release of Gilad Shalit.
Haaretz declares that "Blockading Gaza has caused nothing but distress. Limiting imports of fruit, vegetables and cement will not succor Gilad Shalit, and the Hamas regime remains strong." The editor adds that "Gaza will not disappear, despite the disengagement and the closure. And it warrants more serious treatment from Israel's government."
[Yisrael Wohlman, Ben-Dror Yemini and Dan Margalit wrote today’s articles in Yediot Ahronot, Ma'ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]
