APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday November 13, 2015
Quote of the day:
"And as you know, we do not consider settlements to be part of Israel."
--US State Department spokesman Mark Toner explains why the US does not view the EU labeling of settlements as a boycott of Israel.
--US State Department spokesman Mark Toner explains why the US does not view the EU labeling of settlements as a boycott of Israel.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- IDF prepares for drafting tens of thousands of reserve soldiers in 2016
- Rewriting citizenship – Fundamental concepts are being rewritten for teachers, textbook secretly being prepared in contradiction to the position of the authors, and the supervisor ruled that “democracy is turning into religion.” Citizenship studies are marching in a clear direction: More Judaism, less democracy
- They don’t even look like Syrians to me // David Grossman
- The Israel Peace Conference
- (Likud) Minister Elkin: The right-wing made a mistake when it ignored the Arabs. The perception of separation is collapsing in front of us
- (Former US envoy) Martin Indyk: They are convincing you that you are victims and that you need to live by the sword. That’s not true.
- (Likud) Minister Levine: No one talks about two states any more. It is disconnected from reality
- (Joint List leader) MK Oudeh: The left-wing also has a clear aspiration to get rid of the Palestinians
- Dozens killed in double attack by ISIS in Beirut
- Years after it disappeared, the flag of the Exodus is for sale
- Yossi Dagan, the strongest man across the Green Line and in the Likud. A portrait
- Minister Uri Ariel and the connection to cats, tomatoes and the Temple Mount
- Palestinians, Phillistines or Arabs? This is how the neighboring nation got its name
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Good news for soldiers – salaries will increase
- Blow to Hezbollah – Two suicide terrorists from ISIS blew up in Dahiya neighborhood in Beirut, the Hezbollah enclave: Dozens killed
- Like in the movies – Dressed as family members escorting a woman in labor – this is how the undercover ‘mistaravim’ unit penetrated the hospital in Hebron and caught a wanted terrorist
- The family advisor // Nahum Barnea on the pushing by Netanyahu and Shaked of Avichai Mendelblitt to appointed as the next Attorney General, the most powerful position of any civil servant
- Pollyshuk // Sima Kadmon writes that the shock expressed over the vulgar language of Culture Minister Miri Regev is pretentious, “as if we didn’t know the repertoire of the Likud’s First Lady.”
- “I was like a foreign worker” – Model Keren Michaeli on her life with her former partner, Ilan Ben-Dov
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- ISIS’ revenge (on Hezbollah)
- In the hands of (Attorney General) Weinstein – whether to open criminal investigation into suspicion that Culture Minister Regev made political appointments
- “There is no boycott. Settlements are not part of Israel”
- We better get used to it // Ben Caspit
- From Zion comes Torah // Kalman Libskind
- The ‘mistarev’ (undercover soldier dressed as an Arab) who disguised himself as a woman in labor, the terrorist was caught
- Gideon charges – Is Gideon Saar (Likud) preparing the groundwork for his return to run for the job of Prime Minister?
- The journey to Riyadh: Correspondent Gideon Kotz in a rare visit to Saudi Arabi
- Daddy’s word: What does (former foreign minister from Likud) David Levy say about the surprising arrest of his daughter (on corruption)?
Israel Hayom
- High Court gave green light to destroy terrorists’ homes
- That’s not a woman in labor, it’s a soldier
- Battle over the budget: progress with Shas
- ISIS gave blow to Hezbollah enclave
- For the first time in the country: underground graves
- Waves of hatred: Shaking journey from enclaves of new German racism // Der Spiegel
- After the successful summit in Washington – in Knesset the battle over the budget awaits Netanyahu
News Summary:
ISIS attacks a Hezbollah neighborhood in Beirut, Israeli undercover soldiers make a raid at a Hebron hospital and kill a man, and the Israeli High Court approves the demolishing of homes of the Palestinians who were involved in the murder of the settler couple, Eitan and Naama Henkin, making top news in the Hebrew newspapers. In defense of not ruling to demolish the homes of Jewish terrorists, Justice Noam Sohlberg said, “The Jewish public in general ... resists incitement.”
In the raid of Al-Ahli Hospital to arrest Azzat Al-Shalada, soldiers shot dead his cousin, Abdullah Shalalda, when Abdullah suddenly exited the bathroom and, according to the IDF, tried to stop the forces from taking his injured cousin. According to Shalalda's brother, he was shot as soon as he exited the bathroom. Security sources admitted to Maariv that Shalalda was not a highly wanted man by the security establishment, “but the message of his arrest was clear: the long arm of the Israeli security establishment will reach every place that terrorists who made attacks are located,” write Maariv’s Noam Amir. With the exception of Haaretz+, the Hebrew newspapers made no mention of international law prohibiting military forces from entering hospitals, which are considered safe spaces.
Also in the news, the US rejects Israel’s statement that EU labeling of settlement products is a boycott of Israel, saying the settlements are not in Israel.
Also, Maariv reported that Israel believes the Palestinian family that owns the land on which a synagogue was illegally built will accept 700,000 shekels settlers offered it, but does not want that to be known, so former president Shimon Peres is working with the Palestinian President’s office to solve the issue. Yedioth reported that Tzfat/Safed’s chief rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu called on people to harass the High Court justices, who ruled that the synagogue must be demolished by November 17th. “Don’t let them go to the supermarket, the theater without shouting at them and harassing them. We need to embitter their lives with legal demonstrations, demonstrate in front of their homes, in front of their workplaces, and their children. Every legal place,” said Eliyahu.
Two more construction workers fell to their deaths, making a total of six since the beginning of the month. An investigation was opened. Most construction workers are Palestinian, either citizens or from the West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority will give the International Criminal Court video of the Israeli interrogation of 13-year-old Ahmed Mansara, who has been charged with participating in a stabbing attack. The Palestinians say the video proved the sadistic cruelty of the Israeli interrogators in a blatant violation of international law.
And, the controversial appointment of Ran Baratz as Public Diplomacy chief will not be brought for approval by the government on Sunday as planned, Yedioth reported.
ISIS attacks a Hezbollah neighborhood in Beirut, Israeli undercover soldiers make a raid at a Hebron hospital and kill a man, and the Israeli High Court approves the demolishing of homes of the Palestinians who were involved in the murder of the settler couple, Eitan and Naama Henkin, making top news in the Hebrew newspapers. In defense of not ruling to demolish the homes of Jewish terrorists, Justice Noam Sohlberg said, “The Jewish public in general ... resists incitement.”
In the raid of Al-Ahli Hospital to arrest Azzat Al-Shalada, soldiers shot dead his cousin, Abdullah Shalalda, when Abdullah suddenly exited the bathroom and, according to the IDF, tried to stop the forces from taking his injured cousin. According to Shalalda's brother, he was shot as soon as he exited the bathroom. Security sources admitted to Maariv that Shalalda was not a highly wanted man by the security establishment, “but the message of his arrest was clear: the long arm of the Israeli security establishment will reach every place that terrorists who made attacks are located,” write Maariv’s Noam Amir. With the exception of Haaretz+, the Hebrew newspapers made no mention of international law prohibiting military forces from entering hospitals, which are considered safe spaces.
Also in the news, the US rejects Israel’s statement that EU labeling of settlement products is a boycott of Israel, saying the settlements are not in Israel.
Also, Maariv reported that Israel believes the Palestinian family that owns the land on which a synagogue was illegally built will accept 700,000 shekels settlers offered it, but does not want that to be known, so former president Shimon Peres is working with the Palestinian President’s office to solve the issue. Yedioth reported that Tzfat/Safed’s chief rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu called on people to harass the High Court justices, who ruled that the synagogue must be demolished by November 17th. “Don’t let them go to the supermarket, the theater without shouting at them and harassing them. We need to embitter their lives with legal demonstrations, demonstrate in front of their homes, in front of their workplaces, and their children. Every legal place,” said Eliyahu.
Two more construction workers fell to their deaths, making a total of six since the beginning of the month. An investigation was opened. Most construction workers are Palestinian, either citizens or from the West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority will give the International Criminal Court video of the Israeli interrogation of 13-year-old Ahmed Mansara, who has been charged with participating in a stabbing attack. The Palestinians say the video proved the sadistic cruelty of the Israeli interrogators in a blatant violation of international law.
And, the controversial appointment of Ran Baratz as Public Diplomacy chief will not be brought for approval by the government on Sunday as planned, Yedioth reported.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.