News Nosh 04.01.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday April 1, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
“The suspect doesn’t throw the helmet down and charge at the terrorist, he doesn’t shout. He cocks his gun while in a standing position, in what appears to be cool-headed behavior.”
-- IDF’s attorney for operational affairs, Lt. Col. Aduram Riegler said “the soldier is suspected of shooting deliberately and without need…”
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News Nosh 04.03.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday April 03, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"(He) did not perceive the Arabs as a collective who had murdered his son.”
--Middle East expert, Prof. Menachem Klein, author of “Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron,” tells of an incident at the height of Israel's War of Independence, when Reuven Mas, the Jewish mukhtar (headman) of Talbieh, a mixed Arab-Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem, tried to protect the rights of his Arab neighbors who had fled, just three months after his son was killed in a battle against the Arabs.
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News Nosh 04.04.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday April 04, 2016
 
Quote of the day #1:
"In Israel’s 34th government, the Israeli right was caught shamefully naked. It doesn’t really want a single state with the Palestinians among us. It doesn’t really want to annex Area C of the West Bank and leave dangerous Palestinian enclaves. It’s afraid."
--Political analyst Tal Schneider writes in Maariv why the far right-wing sits in government and does not fulfill its campaign promises.

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Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

This week, Alpher discusses Israel’s High Court of Justice's mandated revisions in the Netanyahu government’s deal with the gas multinationals; why the appointment of Dani Dayan, former head of the Council of Settlers in Judea and Samaria, to the post of consul-general in New York last week generated so much controversy and what political ramifications such an appointment may have for Israel-US relations; and what former Israeli ambassador to Washington Michael Oren is doing in Netanyahu’s coalition.

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Avi Buskila Named New Director of Israel's Peace Now

Avi_Buskila-smIsrael’s Peace Now movement today announced that Avi Buskila, a seasoned social activist and an advertising and public affairs professional, has been hired as Peace Now’s new Director General. He is replacing Yariv Oppenheimer, who has been the leader of Peace Now and the most recognizable public face of Israel’s peace camp in the past 14 years.

Following is Peace Now’s statement:

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News Nosh 04.05.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday April 05, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
“I have a feeling he wasn’t so excited to do it.”
--Israeli Professor Michael Bar about the response he received from US President Barack Obama after Bar asked Obama to deal with the “Jewish people’s intransigence” regarding solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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News Nosh 04.06.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday April 06, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
“I couldn’t believe that I, a simple man, would receive the cornea of Meir Dagan, blessed be his memory. The man is a hero of Israel.”
--Avraham Jan, an 81-year-old shopkeeper in Tel-Aviv who was blind until recently, discovered to whom his new corneas originally belonged when he went for a check-up yesterday following his implant operation.

You Must Be Kidding: 
“It’s natural that my wife wouldn’t want to lie down [in a bed] next to a woman who just gave birth to a baby who might want to murder her baby twenty years from now.”
--MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) explained his support for separation of Arab and Jewish mothers in maternity wards in Israeli hospitals.
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MK Merav Michaeli of the Zionist Union, Thursday April 14th, 2016

UNCOVERING ISRAEL, INSIDE AND OUT 
With Member of Knesset Merav Michaeli (Zionist Union)

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Israeli Knesset Member Merav Michaely of the Zionist Union was a guest speaker on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at an event co-sponsored by the New Israel Fund and Americans for Peace Now. MK Michaeli spoke about the challenges that progressive Israelis face, both on security and foreign affairs questions and on domestic affairs.

 

One of Israel’s foremost protectors of democracy, Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli is a voice of reason, justice, and passion for human rights. Click here to watch Merav’s brief but stirring analysis of the aftermath of the recent Hebron shooting, which has dominated Israel’s public discourse in recent days.

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News Nosh 04.07.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday April 07, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
“Herzl, Ben Gurion, Begin, Jabotinsky and other Zionist leaders are doing somersaults in their graves. Wild creatures have kidnapped Zionism and now they are dragging it, kicking and screaming, into oblivion.”
--Top political commentator of Maariv, Ben Caspit, writes about how the racism expressed by Habayit Hayehudi MK Betsalel Smotrich is taking over the country.

You Must Be Kidding: 
Beitar Jerusalem soccer team banned Haaretz newspaper reporters from the stadium after the paper called the team 'racist.'
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News Nosh 04.08.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday April 08, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"You find yourself, especially in the age of social media networks, flooded by all kinds of lies you can not deal with. They spread this or that. Myths. They say things about you and they attack from here and they attack from there. It's just irresponsible, a loss of values, a loss of moral compass and unfortunately, these people have also infiltrated our movement."
--Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon told Likud members about the incitement he is battling against - even from within his party.
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