APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday July 31, 2015
Quote of the day:
"In the face of a wave of terror against the innocent, the loss of life, and the loss of law and order,
the State of Israel and Israeli society must carry out some soul searching."
--Israeli President Reuven Rivlin comments after the murder of a Palestinian infant by settlers and the stabbing of six participants of a gay pride parade by an ultra-Orthodox man.**
--Israeli President Reuven Rivlin comments after the murder of a Palestinian infant by settlers and the stabbing of six participants of a gay pride parade by an ultra-Orthodox man.**
You Must Be Kidding:
“At least you could have succeeded in killing a few of those damned perverts.”
--Yedioth quotes Facebook post by Gilad Klainer on the stabbing of six participants in Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade.
Breaking News:
**Settlers firebombed a Palestinian home, killing an infant who burned to death, Netanyahu calls it 'terror'
Witnesses saw four settlers break the windows of a home in the village of Duma, between Nablus and Ramallah [close to extremist settlements of Shilo and Eli. – OH] and threw firebombs inside killing a baby and injuring his parents and four-year-old brother. Hebrew graffiti was found at the scene, reading 'Revenge' and 'Long live the Messiah.' The four family members were evacuated to a hospital in Nablus in critical condition and then transferred to a burn unit inside Israel. The one-year-old infant, Ali Dawabsheh, died from his burns. The settlers were seen fleeing toward the settlement of Ma'aleh Ephraim. Out of fear of riots in the West Bank, Israel deployed thousands of troops and limited entry to Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, as Hamas planned a 'Day of Rage'. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemned the 'clear terrorist attack'; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he "will take this war crime to the international courts." (Video on Ynet and more in Hebrew from Maariv)
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Six people stabbed at Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem
- Ahead of Olmert’s imprisonment, Prisons Service establishing ward for threatened senior officials
- After Beersheva, Haifa also refuses to screen films from Palestinian point-of-view
- The secular spring – Cultural war between secular and religious is dividing Arab society in Israel
- What people can learn from the study on the crazy ant
- Changing location – President who made revolution in Georgia returns as governor of Ukrainian province
- View to the past – Return to the historic hotels that provided bedpans and oil lamps
- Return to the Jewish artists who conquered the Arab cultural world
- Doesn’t hate Israel, hates Apartheid: Roger Waters in a special interview
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Pride and blood – six injured in stabbing by ultra-Orthodox Jew
- He isn’t alone // Itai Segal
- City in darkness // Shir-Lee Golan
- Created us all // Dana International
- The knife waving over my community. We were silent, I was silent. No more // MK Itzik Shmuli (Zionist Camp)
- Expose - The secret agreement to freeze (settlement) construction
- Armed with words // Sima Kadmon
- (Minister) Deri’s ultimatum (over budget)
- The Madam speaks – Einat Harel supplies a rare peek into the prostitution industry
- Member with money – Investigation: Who is the man who escorted MK Oren Hazan in the Knesset and is giving loans of hundreds of thousands of shekels to politicians
- Hot weekend, climax on Sunday
- Seinfeld coming to perform in Israel
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- The botch-up and the hatred – Police say they prepared for securing Jerusalem’s Gay Pride parade. but the man who stabbed six people “surprised them”
- On the slippery slope – the ease with which religion becomes a tool for hatred // Ben Caspit
- Words kill // Ayala Katz, mother of gay youth, who was murdered
- Torah against hatred // Feige Stern, religious participant in march
- Beit El, fire zone:
- Im Tirtzu (If you will) // Ben Caspit
- Everything is political // Kalman Libskind
- In Yaalon’s head // Alon Ben-David
- The return home // Karni Eldad in Sa-Nur settlement
- Digs, traffic jams and rats – The light-rail works in Tel-Aviv begin this week
- The Russian front: Netanyahu turned to Putin in attempt to thwart nuclear agreement with Teheran
- The warmonger: The full story about the Mossad agent who almost lit up the Middle East – twice // Yossi Melman
- Open file: The drama that shook up the family of the missing young man from Nesher
- Regards from America: Donald Trump’s Israeli connection
- My present: Why I wanted to be a surrogate mother after what I went through // Ilana Shtotland
Israel Hayom
- Same stabber, same hatred
- We are equal – and proud of who we are // Gal Wagner Kolsko
- The police embarrassing and infuriating police botch-up // Itsik Saban
- Don’t blame all of ultra-Orthodox society // Dror Eydar
- Israel Hayom poll: 73% of public: Obama isn’t concerned with Israel’s interests; 76% of public: Continue battle against Iran agreement
- Netanyahu: “Opposition in US to agreement with Iran is growing daily”
- News for drivers: Gasoline prices drop 27 agorot
- Cold sweat: Prepare the A/C – extreme heat wave over weekend
- Budget to be brought for government approval next week; Kahlon and Yaalon to discuss amount of security budget
- The failures of the American nuclear plan
- The dreamers – Evacuees of Gush Katif who want to return home
- Sunday the Tel-Aviv light-rail works begin; Forecast: more traffic jams than usual
News Summary:
Six people were stabbed at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, two controversial bills were passed in Knesset and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed confidence that opposition to the Iran nuclear deal is growing making top stories in today’s Friday newspapers.
**An Ultra-Orthodox man, who was recently released from jail after stabbing three people at the Jerusalem’s 2005 Gay Pride Parade, was arrested with his knife in hand after stabbing six participants in yesterday’s Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade. Hundreds spontaneously held demonstrations afterward in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv calling for the leader of the Habayit Hayehudi party, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, to resign, Maariv reported. His party members have made homophobic statements. "Homophobes in power are responsible for this tragedy," they said. Zionist Camp MK Itsik Shmuli came out of the closet in a front page Op-Ed in Yedioth’s paper today saying that “it is no longer possible to remain silent' and that 'this is the time to fight the great darkness.” Ynet showed that the stabber, Yishai Shlissel, wrote two weeks ago of his intentions to attack at Thursday's gay pride parade. Yedioth also quoted from a Facebook post of another ultra-Orthodox man, Gilad Klainer, who chastised Shlissel for not being “more efficient” and “at least you could have succeeded in killing a few of those damned perverts.” A day earlier, Haaretz+ ran a feature on the “Dichotomy of Life as a Gay Palestinian With Israeli Citizenship,” which features in a documentary film.
The Knesset passed the controversial ‘Norwegian Law’ as well as a law sanctioning force-feeding Palestinian prisoners, following the hunger-strikes some have taken to in order to force Israel to charge them and put them on trial. The bill passed 46:40. Right-wing MKs said that law “creates the right balance between the state's interest to protect the prisoner's life and his rights over his body.” But the Israeli Medical Association called it “torture” and declared it will challenge it in the High Court. Members of the Joint List faction were outraged, Maariv reported. "The Knesset approved torture of Palestinian prisoners,” they said and accused the Netanyahu government of “a distorted perception of the basic values of democracy.” The Palestinian Authority said the law “is license to kill Palestinian prisoners” and called it a “very dangerous precedent,” Maariv and JPost reported.
Netanyahu said he is certain that US support for the nuclear agreement with Iran is waning and warned of shortcomings. And a poll by Israel Hayom found that most Israelis think Israel needs to continue fighting the deal. According to the poll, 73% of Israelis don't think that U.S. President Barack Obama has Israel's best interest at heart and an overwhelming majority feels that Netanyahu is best suited to lead the Israeli government at this time.
Six people were stabbed at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, two controversial bills were passed in Knesset and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed confidence that opposition to the Iran nuclear deal is growing making top stories in today’s Friday newspapers.
**An Ultra-Orthodox man, who was recently released from jail after stabbing three people at the Jerusalem’s 2005 Gay Pride Parade, was arrested with his knife in hand after stabbing six participants in yesterday’s Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade. Hundreds spontaneously held demonstrations afterward in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv calling for the leader of the Habayit Hayehudi party, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, to resign, Maariv reported. His party members have made homophobic statements. "Homophobes in power are responsible for this tragedy," they said. Zionist Camp MK Itsik Shmuli came out of the closet in a front page Op-Ed in Yedioth’s paper today saying that “it is no longer possible to remain silent' and that 'this is the time to fight the great darkness.” Ynet showed that the stabber, Yishai Shlissel, wrote two weeks ago of his intentions to attack at Thursday's gay pride parade. Yedioth also quoted from a Facebook post of another ultra-Orthodox man, Gilad Klainer, who chastised Shlissel for not being “more efficient” and “at least you could have succeeded in killing a few of those damned perverts.” A day earlier, Haaretz+ ran a feature on the “Dichotomy of Life as a Gay Palestinian With Israeli Citizenship,” which features in a documentary film.
The Knesset passed the controversial ‘Norwegian Law’ as well as a law sanctioning force-feeding Palestinian prisoners, following the hunger-strikes some have taken to in order to force Israel to charge them and put them on trial. The bill passed 46:40. Right-wing MKs said that law “creates the right balance between the state's interest to protect the prisoner's life and his rights over his body.” But the Israeli Medical Association called it “torture” and declared it will challenge it in the High Court. Members of the Joint List faction were outraged, Maariv reported. "The Knesset approved torture of Palestinian prisoners,” they said and accused the Netanyahu government of “a distorted perception of the basic values of democracy.” The Palestinian Authority said the law “is license to kill Palestinian prisoners” and called it a “very dangerous precedent,” Maariv and JPost reported.
Netanyahu said he is certain that US support for the nuclear agreement with Iran is waning and warned of shortcomings. And a poll by Israel Hayom found that most Israelis think Israel needs to continue fighting the deal. According to the poll, 73% of Israelis don't think that U.S. President Barack Obama has Israel's best interest at heart and an overwhelming majority feels that Netanyahu is best suited to lead the Israeli government at this time.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.