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.**
--Association for Civil Rights in Israel Adv. Anne Sucio in a letter urging the Attorney General to investigate immediately.**
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Seventh police commander gets into trouble: Five female officers testified that he sexually harassed them
- Consulates in the US: Friends of Israel warn that Netanyahu’s address to Congress will harm relations
- Military prosecutors preparing indictments of looting in Operation Protective Edge
- At least 31 killed in Taiwan airlines crash
- After he lost half a billion shekels, Ben-Moshe stands to lose IDB Holdings
- Embarrassment in Zionist Camp: 17 campaign managers to be dismissed
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Crash – Another Police commander questioned yesterday on suspicion of sexually harassing five female police officers – Hunt for (sexual) harassers in Police elite is not over
- We knew and we were silent // Hillel Fartuk – Former Police spokesman
- Officer seriously injured by mine in Mt. Hermon
- “We won’t send our children to pre-school” (because of overcrowding and too few caretakers)
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)
- Likely: Another Police commander to be dismissed because of sex crimes
- Remove them, admit and let’s finish this // Amir Zohar
- Eight fresh graves – Thousands of residents of Hora and (Bedouin) communities in area attended funerals of the women killed in the bus disaster
- Bottle and garden furniture affair - Former house manager (of PM’s Residence) requested immunity and was denied
- Association for the War against Cancer: Israel leads in world in morbidity from lymphoma cancer
Israel Hayom
- Police Commissioner: Zero tolerance for sexual harassment in the Police – The shame and the cleaning: Seventh commander got in trouble; Suspicion of sexual harassment
- Generation of senior officials did not internalize the change – and were erased // Dan Margalit.
- Good that female police officers don’t hesitate to complain // Itsik Saban
- (Taiwanese) Plane crash in the eye of the camera
- The NGOs 2: Hundreds of complaints against “One Voice” to tax authorities in the US
- The campaign against the right-wing: Lies have no legs (But they have the media) // Haim Shine
- Netanyahu: The world powers are running towards an agreement that will allow Iran nuclear weapons
- Northern Golan Heights: IDF officer injured from mine explosion
- Israel in first place in morbidity in lymphoma cancer
News Summary:
Another Israel Police commander is in hot water over sexual harassment complaints (Yedioth wrote that at this rate there won’t be any top commanders left) making the top story in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
Also in the news was the funeral for the eight Bedouin women killed in a road accident close to their town and the questions over the ‘death road’ where they found their horrific end.
The papers also reported on the Politico report that seven pro-Israel Jewish Congressmen gave Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer an earful for Netanyahu’s speech to Congress that was not coordinated with the White House. Haaretz+ reported that Israeli Consuls in the US warned that Israel’s US friends think Netanyahu’s speech meant to pushing further sanctions against Iran “is a bad mistake and could harm US-Israel relations.”
Netanyahu continued to slam the nuclear talks between the world powers and Iran, saying, “The deal being reached with Iran is very dangerous, dangerous to Israel, dangerous to the region, and dangerous to the whole world.” He also accused Iran of trying to open a northern front against Israel, referring to the Hezbollah attack on the northern border that killed two Israeli soldiers. And he drew a comparison between ISIS and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Interestingly, a high-ranking Iranian official said Israel sent Iran a direct message asking for restraint in the wake of the attacks in the north, saying that the Hezbollah attack was a response for the Israeli Syrian Golan attack, i.e. “Shebaa for Quneitra.” Haaretz+’s Zvi Bar’el writes that if this is true, it would confirm that Israel was behind the Quneitra attack and that the two enemies have an official channel of communication.
Another Israel Police commander is in hot water over sexual harassment complaints (Yedioth wrote that at this rate there won’t be any top commanders left) making the top story in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
Also in the news was the funeral for the eight Bedouin women killed in a road accident close to their town and the questions over the ‘death road’ where they found their horrific end.
The papers also reported on the Politico report that seven pro-Israel Jewish Congressmen gave Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer an earful for Netanyahu’s speech to Congress that was not coordinated with the White House. Haaretz+ reported that Israeli Consuls in the US warned that Israel’s US friends think Netanyahu’s speech meant to pushing further sanctions against Iran “is a bad mistake and could harm US-Israel relations.”
Netanyahu continued to slam the nuclear talks between the world powers and Iran, saying, “The deal being reached with Iran is very dangerous, dangerous to Israel, dangerous to the region, and dangerous to the whole world.” He also accused Iran of trying to open a northern front against Israel, referring to the Hezbollah attack on the northern border that killed two Israeli soldiers. And he drew a comparison between ISIS and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Interestingly, a high-ranking Iranian official said Israel sent Iran a direct message asking for restraint in the wake of the attacks in the north, saying that the Hezbollah attack was a response for the Israeli Syrian Golan attack, i.e. “Shebaa for Quneitra.” Haaretz+’s Zvi Bar’el writes that if this is true, it would confirm that Israel was behind the Quneitra attack and that the two enemies have an official channel of communication.
**Maariv reported that the police said it found a large arsenal of combat weapons at [the radical
-OH] Yitzhar settlement that is used (by them) against Israeli security forces and
Palestinians. And, Haaretz+ reported that the police have been using anti-riot black foam-tipped bullets without
training. Dozens of people have said they have seen people injured after being shot with foam-tipped
bullets. Some of them were seriously injured, suffering sight loss, facial fractures or injury to internal
organs.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.