News Nosh 02.01.15

by APN 02/01/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel

Sunday February 1, 2015
 

Quote of the day:

“If I go to the ceremony, and if I have the civic courage, I'll raise a handwritten placard in the hall. It will say that the Jerusalem Municipality does not have the right to award a prize for the freedom of the individual in society, because it does not respect the rights of the individual of the myriads of its residents.”
--Ilana Hammerman writes about her dilemma in attending the ceremony for "The Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society," which she will be awarded on February 8th.**

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News Nosh 02.02.15

by APN 02/02/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday February 2, 2015

Quote of the day:
"Dialogue is important, especially when there is no consensus."
--Nava Boker, Likud candidate #25, speaking at a weekend conference with the former Palestinian prisoners' affairs minister.**
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News Nosh 02.03.15

by APN 02/03/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday February 3, 2015

Quote of the day:
"The nature of the Jewish settlement in the city and its way of action smear and disgrace the entire Israeli society.”
--Peace Now director Yariv Oppenheimer criticized the visit of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to the Jewish settlement enclave in Hebron.**
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News Nosh 02.04.15

by APN 02/04/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday February 4, 2015

Quote of the day:
"The truck was even wider than the road. It's certain death. We should all be angry at those who run the country like this. Someone murdered (these women). Look at this road. Let the officer who authorized opening such road should come here."
--Ali, a relative of some of the killed and wounded in the horrific road accident on Road #31, which kills an average of nine people a year, told Maariv.
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News Nosh 02.05.15

by APN 02/05/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday February 5, 2015

Quote of the day:
“Apparently the police have been using a new weapon with a higher potential for injury and killing, before drafting the required procedures regulating its use and the minimum permitted ranges.” 
--Association for Civil Rights in Israel Adv. Anne Sucio in a letter urging the Attorney General to investigate immediately.**
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News Nosh 02.06.15

by APN 02/06/15
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APN's special Israeli Election Polls Review
Friday February 6, 2015

Numbers of the day:
57.6%.
--Number of Jewish voters who think that socio-economic issues are of top importance in choosing a party to vote for in the upcoming elections.**
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News Nosh 02.08.15

by APN 02/08/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday February 8, 2015

Number of the day:
Seven million.
--The number of dollars currently being bid for the rope that hung former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Israelis, Kuwaitis and Iranians are vying for the chord.**
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News Nosh 02.09.15

by APN 02/09/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday February 9, 2015

Quote of the day:
"These data prove that the Netanyahu government continued in 2014 to energetically promote the End of Days vision of an apartheid state, where settlements are built simultaneously all over the West Bank, and millions of Palestinians live as second-class citizens in the enclaves between them.”
--Researcher Dror Etkes, who heads the Peace Now settlement tracking project, on the government plan to make major expansions of four settlements.** 
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News Nosh 02.10.15

by APN 02/10/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday February 10, 2015

Quote of the day:
“To our shock, no Arab expert is participating as a speaker at the conference, not even as a representative of the youth. Similarly, the conference organizers did not see fit to hold a session that deals with the unique problems affecting the welfare of Arab children in Israel.”
--Shutafut-Sharakah Organization for a Shared, Democratic, and Equal Society wrote in a letter to Knesset members asking them to boycott the Be'er Sheva Conference on the Wellbeing of the Child. The letter got results.**
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News Nosh 02.11.15

by APN 02/11/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday February 11, 2015

Number of the day:
47.
Percent of Israelis who think chances of another politically-motivated murder occurring in Israel have risen, according to Peace Now poll.**
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