HEADLINES FROM HEBREW PRESS

HA’ARETZ

1. BLOW TO EHUD BARAK: NEW POLITICAL ORGANIZATION TO SUPPORT MERETZ.

Authors Amos Oz and David Grossman are likely to support move together with former senior Laborites Uzi Baram, Shlomo Ben-Ami and Avraham Burg.  Some of the group members likely to contend for spot on party's Knesset list.

2. ANOTHER PRINCE RETURNS TO METZUDAT ZE'EV: DAN MERIDOR RETURNS TO LIKUD.

MA'ARIV

1. Thus ISA determined that right-wing elements are ready to assassinate Prime Minister.

THE ISA SURVEY METHOD.

Last week ISA Director Yuval Diskin reported to Government: "The extreme right is prepared to use weapons to attack leaders."  But two days later he revealed to his staff: Information actually based on surveys – prepared by a civilian body, so it appears.

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. Tomorrow: Municipal elections.

THE CITY IS OURS.

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YISRAEL HAYOM

1. Foreign Minister reveals to representatives of foreign powers what she hasn't told the public.

LIVNI: "ARTICLES ARE FORMULATED, WE'RE ALREADY WORKING ON MAPS."

Is there an agreement with the Palestinians, and what about Jerusalem?  It depends on who you ask.

2. MERIDOR IN LIKUD: "KADIMA HAS FAILED."

Former minister returns to politics, without guaranteed spot.  "In the past I had harsh differences with Netanyahu, I believe that today there is a different reality.  I see in him leadership qualities."  Pnina Rosenblum to run in Likud.

3. A SECULAR JEW IN JERUSALEM, HADASH IN TA?

Tomorrow – municipal elections.  Fascinating struggles in Jerusalem and TA – and fear of low turnout.

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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Yediot Ahronot commends outgoing US President George Bush's support for Israel in the latter's war against Palestinian suicide terrorism in 2002 and lauds his position, as enunciated in his April 2004 letter to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, that the Palestinian refugee issue would be resolved within the projected Palestinian state and that Israel would continue to control large settlement blocs in Judea and Samaria.

Ma'ariv predicts that Dan Meridor will find the Likud not as hospitable a political home as he might like and suggests that he will have to modify, "his dovish views."

Yisrael Hayom asserts that, "Yigal Amir hurt not only those who support the Oslo process but also those who oppose it.  The shooting did not stop the process.  On the contrary, it reinforced it and turned it into a will written in blood."

[Dov Weisglass, Shalom Yerushalmi and Dror Eidar wrote today’s articles in Yediot Ahronot, Ma'ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]