(Israel Government Press Office)

Yediot Aharonot notes that Al-Quds University Prof. Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi recently led a group of Palestinian students on a visit to Auschwitz and has written and lectured about the trip. The author informs her readers that "The Palestinian media has called him 'traitor' and 'collaborator', the lecturers' union has announced that it is expelling him for ‘normalizing' and a group of students burst into his office, ran amok, broke things, threw out his secretary and left behind letters warning Dajani not to return to campus." The paper points out: "Abu Mazen, who gave his Ramallah speech condemning the Holocaust, has not bothered to help him."

Yisrael Hayom links the current American media reports on alleged Israeli espionage in the US to the ongoing negotiations to exempt Israelis from visas to enter the US. The author dismisses the allegations and asserts: "If the Americans do not want to issue Israelis entry permits without visas, they should find another pretext."

The Jerusalem Post comments on the proposal to do away with the semi-privatized regional water corporations that have replaced municipalities in the provision of water and sewage services to the public, and notes that under the present system, “there are serious doubts about how our water use is measured and that the amounts are often determined capriciously and without plausible explanation.” The editor asserts: “Bills must reflect reality, be credible and above board,” and concludes: “Since the corporations had failed to clean up their act, it may be time to disband them.”

Haaretz asserts: “In Israel, Jewish terror exists,” and declares: “The question is when, not if, the 'price tag’ perpetrators will take up arms and cause a disaster.” The editor believes that the battle against Jewish terrorists is in effect “a battle for the consciousness of the Israeli public, much of which views these terrorists as God’s messengers on a mission to carry out divine commandments,” and that the ultranationalist spirit promoted by PM Netanyahu and other ministers “is the foundation of the price-tag acts.” The editor calls on the prime minister to change the this outlook and put an end to Jewish terrorism.