Israeli Press
Israel's papers open the holiday weekend on Lebanon, Iran and polls
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The Israeli press went into the Rosh Hashanah weekend looking north and east. The occupied West Bank and Gaza reached the fronts through a plan, a demolition and a column, rarely through the people living there.
Ynet led on the army's capture of the Ali Taher ridge in southern Lebanon and Iran's threat of a "powerful response," with officials telling the site they saw no sign of imminent action.
Beneath it the site ran three pieces that matter to Palestinian readers: the report that the army wants international forces to clear Gaza on the Lebanon model, Oded Shalom's account of failing to reach the besieged house at Qusra, and the residents' testimony after the Civil Administration razed Khirbet al-Tabban in Masafer Yatta.
Maariv stayed on the campaign. Its politics desk reported Tally Gotliv's release to Otzma Yehudit, its own pollster explaining the Channel 13 tie between the blocs, Naftali Bennett's attack on Benjamin Netanyahu and Anna Barsky's report that Israel has prepared a response to Britain's coming settlement measures. Alan Baker argued in its opinion pages that the West is dismantling Oslo and then expecting Israel to trust its guarantees.
Haaretz front-loaded the courts: the High Court's unanimous annulment of the law freezing arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders, and its interim freeze of the law placing the police investigations department under the justice minister.
Its Hebrew edition carried the fourth killing in Nazareth in twenty-four hours and its running count of 201 murders in Israel this year, and Netanyahu's newly published 7 October timeline showing his first call to the chief of staff three hours in.
Channel 12's military desk called the captured Hamas security chief Moein al-Arabeed "an intelligence treasure" and reported Israel preparing for an Iranian reaction over the holidays.
The Times of Israel live blog carried the Qusra arrest, Ben Gvir's "Disengagement 710" plan and the US House vote against universities that boycott Israel, and closed the day with Vance's condition for talks with Iran.
Arutz Sheva, the settler movement's outlet, led on an attempted stabbing at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem and the House vote, and did not report the al-Tabban demolition.
Israel Hayom's site was not reachable by this desk's wire overnight; its coverage is not assessed here.
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