After Mombasa, is Sharon wise to travel by helicopter?
The only thing the front pages of two Tel Aviv dailies have in common in their Monday editions are large photographs of the funerals of the two young brothers killed in the attack on Israeli tourists in Mombasa last week. Yediot Ahronot leads with an account of the vulnerability of most Israeli airfields and helipads to militants armed with rockets or shoulder missiles. Especially at risk, according to reporter Arieh Egozi, who conducted his investigation in the wake of the failed attack on an Israeli passenger jet in Mombasa, are the prime minister and minister of defense, who tend to go everywhere by helicopter. Maariv leads with a report of violent scenes at a session of the Likud Party convention, sparked by intense and bitter competition for safe places on the party s slate for the upcoming Knesset elections. In a comment on the convention, Maariv political analyst Shalom Yerushalmi writes: Once again we witnessed scenes out of the Likud s dark past, the late 1980s and early 1990s
