News Nosh 12.01.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday December 1, 2016  
 
Quote of the Day #1:
“I’ve received messages on Facebook from people who saw the TV show and they said they were brought up on racism, on the ‘Arab enemy,’ and suddenly on the show they’re beginning to see the person behind the headlines, and it made them start to think. To me, that’s hope.”
--Samer Kopti, Palestinian-Israeli actress says in interesting interview in Haaretz+.*
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News Nosh 12.02.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday September 09, 2016 

You Must Be Kidding: 
"Anyone who's claiming that there's an intifada of arsonists shouldn't try to prove it by arresting innocent people." 
--Jawad Qatush’s lawyer said after Qatush was released from five days of detention. Police detained him for five days on suspicions of arson when he burned his trash.*
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News Nosh 12.04.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday December 4, 2016  
 
Quote of the day:
“It’s American Southern comfort food meets Arabic breakfast comfort food.”
--Jewish Israeli chef Mattan Abrahams describes the dish of slow-cooked short ribs on top of hummus, which he made with Arab Israeli chef Abu Marun as part of next weekend's Al-Sham food festival, which pairs Jewish and Arab chefs together to offer modern takes on traditional Arab recipes.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Israel's Civil Administration in the West Bank intends to relocate the illegal Amona outpost due to its location on privately-owned Palestinian land to other land privately-owned by Palestinians. The location was chosen after the Civil Administration 'invited' the Palestinian public to submit any ownership claims to the land next to Amona’s current site. Reportedly, no one claimed three plots - yet the Civil Administration knows that they are privately owned.**


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News Nosh 12.05.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday December 5, 2016  
 
Quote of the day:
"I walked around the army training grounds with a hole in my pants. For that, I served more time in military prison than Brigadier General (Ofek Buchris) who raped someone under his command."
–A soldier named Hed Einav was one of hundreds of Israeli men and women who have posted on Facebook a personal story in protest of the plea bargain which Buchris receive and adding the Hebrew hashtag #morethanBuchris.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
“We’re all fighting for this country, but maybe not in the same way. I hope that ultimately, despite it being on the verge of collapse, the state will rise above disputes. It’s OK not to agree and to come out of this with different opinions, since we’re not a herd…This was a meeting that stemmed from common concern for the future of this country and anyone who believes that democracy is important should invite Breaking the Silence to their school.”
--Ze'ev Degani, principal of Tel Aviv's Gymnasia Herzliya High School, told students why he invited Breaking the Silence to speak with them, despite pressure by the Education Ministry to cancel the invitation.
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News Nosh 12.06.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday December 6, 2016  

You Must Be Kidding #1: 
“This is a historic day. Today, the Israeli Knesset moved from heading toward establishing a Palestinian state to heading toward sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, and to remove any doubt about it -- the outpost regulation bill is the tip of the iceberg in applying sovereignty."
--Education Minister and leader of Habayit Hayehudi party, Naftali Bennet said after the passing of the settlement outpost legalization bill.*

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News Nosh 12.07.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday December 7, 2016  
 
Quote of the day:
"(It’s a) big middle finger in all our faces.”
--Former MK and Tel-Aviv city councilwoman Yael Dayan said of a golden statue of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu mysteriously erected - and toppled in Tel-Aviv's Rabin Square.**
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News Nosh 12.08.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday December 8, 2016  
 
Quote of the day:
"Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan continues to work at a feverish pace to help Israel catch up with other advanced countries like China, North Korea and Iran."
--Haaretz Editorial slams Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan for his new "McCarthyite approach" of appointing a task force to identify companies, organizations and individuals who call for a boycott of Israel or the West Bank settlements.**
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News Nosh 12.09.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday December 9, 2016  
 
Quote of the day:
"Amona's eviction is underway! Everyone, come to Amona now! By all estimates, the eviction is set for Saturday night. Roads will be blocked -- come early. Spread the word, because you don't destroy a Jewish community."
--A text message sent Thursday night to tens of thousands of Israelis by Amona outpost campaign activists, who fear police will evict them before the December 25th deadline.*
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News Nosh 12.11.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday December 11, 2016  
 
Quote of the day:
“Censors in academia deserve to be ignored, and when there is an attempt at collective institutional censorship, like here, they are worthy of being pointedly ignored.”
--Dr. Uri Weiss, a lecturer who is behind a petition signed by over 300 academics saying they will ignore any recommendations in the new ethics code over political statements in academia, which was commissioned last week by Education Minister Naftali Bennett.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
"I'd rather the Arabs don't go to the polls in droves, and don't come to the polls at all." 
--Coalition Chairman MK David Bitan (Likud) in an anti-democratic statement at a public event Saturday.**
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News Nosh 12.12.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday December 12, 2016  
 
You Must Be Kidding #1: 
Want to buy the Western Wall, board a train at Ammunition Hill and wait a turn because the street is closed after a zebra escaped the Biblical Zoo? Now you can with the new Jerusalem version of Hasbro's famous game. The Jerusalem municipality helped in choosing the sites. But the game does not include the non-Jewish sites in the city.
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