Please join the Foundation for Middle East Peace and Americans for Peace Now for a discussion with Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn about her new, critically-acclaimed book, “City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement.”
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday June 15, 2017
Quote of the Day:
"I'll let you know if I happen to start a coup."
--Minister of Culture and Sports Miri Regev responded in jest after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu informed her via telephone that she would be prime minister in his place during the two days he is abroad in Cyprus.*
--Minister of Culture and Sports Miri Regev responded in jest after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu informed her via telephone that she would be prime minister in his place during the two days he is abroad in Cyprus.*
Israel's "Entry Law" Turns Israel into The Jewish Homeland...for Some
The Israeli Knesset passed legislation known as the "Entry Law" on March 6, 2017, which will ban entry to Israel of foreigners who support or publicly engage in a blanket boycott of Israel, or who support or engage in boycotts targeting West Bank settlements.
Below are "testimonials" from people linked to APN highlighting their deep connection to and support of Israel, and how despite that, Israel would deny their entry.
(Click on a picture to jump to that testimonial or scroll down for all of them)
Update: this action, now closed, ran in June 2017.
The Israeli Knesset passed legislation known as the "Entry Law" on March 6, 2017, which will ban entry to Israel of foreigners who support or publicly engage in a blanket boycott of Israel, or who support or engage in boycotts targeting West Bank settlements.
*** APN's statement condemning passage of the law is here and APN's Resource page on the bill is here.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday June 14, 2017
Quote of the day:
"Netanyahu invested money in building 29 new yeshivas for settlers, but did not hold one meeting for
disabled people in Israel. My idea is that all the disabled will become settlers and move to the Territories.
That's how they'll start treating them properly."
--MK Ilan Gil-On (Meretz) said after a panel appointed by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opposed a significant increase in disability benefits.**
--MK Ilan Gil-On (Meretz) said after a panel appointed by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opposed a significant increase in disability benefits.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday June 13, 2017
Quote of the day:
The dispute between the right and the left comes down to "our ability to live here safely versus our
existence as a democratic state."
--President Reuven Rivlin said at the Haaretz Israel Conference on Peace.*
--President Reuven Rivlin said at the Haaretz Israel Conference on Peace.*
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 the revelations in recent days regarding peace proposals and negotiating initiatives in the Israeli-Palestinian sphere since 2014; whether these reported moves offer any new hope; the bottom line; whether things could get worse in the near future if progress is not likely; how possible deterioration links up with the Saudi-led economic siege of Qatar; and the violent ISIS attack on Iran last week and Trump's “condolence” message.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday June 12, 2017
Quote of the day #1:
"The personality was examined in variables that are considered positive variables such as openness to
experience, reliability as well as variables called the ‘dark triangle’: narcissistic, anti-social, scheming
and adding a ‘vengeance’ variable, in which the basic given of people with this variable on a high level is: ‘I
am willing to remove my own eye, if I take out two of yours,’ or in other words, ‘I am willing to do damage to
myself, as long as I do you more damage.’”
--Prof. Avi Besser of Sappir College, who headed a study on characteristics of left-wing and right-wing people.*
--After receiving treatment for cancer himself at Rambam Hospital in Israel, an unnamed senior Palestinian official donated tens of thousands of shekels underwriting the establishment of a children’s recovery room inside the oncology center.**
--Prof. Avi Besser of Sappir College, who headed a study on characteristics of left-wing and right-wing people.*
Quote of the day #2:
“Palestinian, Israeli, Syrian and children from other countries receive treatment in the hospital for a
variety of serious illnesses and need all the help they can get. I decided to contribute as much as I could,
both as a humanitarian act and a symbol of solidarity.”--After receiving treatment for cancer himself at Rambam Hospital in Israel, an unnamed senior Palestinian official donated tens of thousands of shekels underwriting the establishment of a children’s recovery room inside the oncology center.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday June 11, 2017
Quote of the day:
"The perception that settlements serves security is anachronistic. The fact that they are sitting on this a
slope or that foothill does not have any effect on our security capability, neither in warning us nor in
deterrence."
--Former IDF deputy chief of staff Moshe Kaplinksy said in report by Molad – the Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy.*
--Former IDF deputy chief of staff Moshe Kaplinksy said in report by Molad – the Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy.*