Israeli Press
Israel's Tuesday papers count Likud's reserved seats and a new poll
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The Israeli press woke on Tuesday to a party list and a poll that disagree with each other. Here is how each outlet plays it.
Ynet led on the night's drama inside Likud: Netanyahu will reserve places on the list for Gideon Saar, Israel Katz and Haim Katz. The defence minister was added beyond the eight reserved slots already approved so that, party sources told the site, "he can deal with security and not politics".
Beneath it Ynet ran Oren Dvorkonsky, the businessman Netanyahu recruited as his first reserved name, and the anti-Trump post Dvorkonsky wrote and then apologised for.
Ynet's West Bank file carried the new Tel Talpiot offshoot beside Qusra, three Palestinian houses under siege with their power cut, and soldiers filmed praying alongside the settlers who raised it.
Maariv gave the morning to the campaign, and to its own bad news for the coalition: the Channel 12 poll putting Eisenkot's Yashar first on 24 seats and Likud on 22.
Around it the paper ran Yair Golan launching a billion-shekel plan against crime in Arab society in Nazareth, Uzi Dayan entering the Likud primaries, and Einav Zangauker's account of the reserved slot the Democrats promised her and withdrew.
Haaretz led its politics file with the report, sourced to the New York Times, that clauses explicitly barring Hamas from holding weapons were removed from the Gaza agreement, which now requires heavy weapons to be decommissioned and stored. Its election page ran the arithmetic Maariv left out: without the Arab lists, the anti-Netanyahu bloc stops at 60.
Israel Hayom and the Times of Israel were unreachable to this desk's wire on Tuesday morning; both feeds returned server refusals.
Walla and Arutz Sheva ran the region — the Axios report that the IAEA will remove nuclear material from a clandestine Syrian site under understandings between Washington, Damascus and Israel, Syria's atomic energy authority confirming it, and Trump in the Oval Office saying the American navy is the only force controlling the Strait of Hormuz.
Ynet's opinion page argued that the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defence pact is a real loss for Israel and the United States, and that the price of Israeli refusal to normalise with Riyadh is now visible.
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