News Nosh 06.03.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday June 03, 2016
 
Number of the day:
22.
--The number of mandates a party led by Moshe Yaalon, Gideon Saar and Gabi Ashkenazi would receive if elections were held now, the same number Likud party would receive.**


Front Page:
Haaretz
  • International peace conference will be held today, and the efforts to bring Zionist Camp into the coalition increases
  • A slammed door doesn’t close  - Herzog will sit in the government with Lieberman and Bennett. For peace, of course // Yossi Verter
  • Back to ’99: When Netanyahu sat in the interrogation room // Amir Oren
  • Leasing under warning – Thousands of Israelis live on land leased for 99-years from the (Greek Orthodox) church, which will end shortly
  • Fury in Ankara: Berlin recognized the genocide of the Armenian people
  • The power couple of American literature is against the occupation
  • The challenging year of (ex-minister) Avi Gabbay in the halls of the government
  • Larina Weisfeld has pleasant memories of the kidnappers in Antebbe
  • Longing for the Jewish-Arab son of the land, before the eruption of nationalism
Yedioth Ahronoth
  • “Trump must not hold the nuclear code” – Hillary Clinton’s unprecedented attack on her Republican rival
  • “Exaggerated expectations” // Nahum Barnea on the Int’l Conference in Paris
  • Enough of Sara (Netanyahu) at this time // Sima Kadmon writes that ‘a normal state would leave her to herself and understand that the problem isn’t her, but her husband’
  • State Prosecution: Put Olmert’s attorney on trial
  • The summer camp protest: The new battle of the organizers of the crowded classrooms
  • Oversight at hospital: Because of infected intravenous infusion, 12 people infected with severe liver infection
  • Salah Shabtai 2016: The spring dried out? We’ll fill it for the government cabinet meeting
  • Back to the Dolphinarium: 15 years after she was critically wounded in an attack, Alona is still fighting
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
Israel Hayom
  • Israel: “The Paris Conference will fail, direct negotiations are needed”
  • No peace yet, but Bennett is threatening to quit the government
  • 870,000 Jerusalemites: Every 10th Israeli is from the capital
  • Indictment against Olmert’s attorney
  • The injustice will be rectified: 200,000 shekels compensation to the orphans of an attack that happened before 2000
  • Coloring the streets: Gay Pride Parade in Tel-Aviv today: masses celebrating, streets closed, and heavy security
  • Book of Ruth (Westheimer): The Holocaust, the injury, the naughty kibbutzniks and three husbands
  • Security test: Which direction will Minister Lieberman go // Yoav Limor  


News Summary:
**Peacemaking and politics were top stories in Friday’s Hebrew newspapers. The Paris Peace Conference takes place today
without Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reiterated that only direct bilateral negotiations could reap peace. Israeli political sources said that, anyway, Israel preferred the Egyptian initiative. Meanwhile, the pressure was rising for Opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Maariv)
and the co-leader of the Zionist Camp, Tzipi Livni, to join the government, prompting Education Minister Naftali Bennett to threaten that if the government did move towards establishing a Palestinian state Habayit Hayehudi party would leave the government. On the sidelines, ousted defense minister Moshe Yaalon is planning his comeback. Interestingly, a Jerusalem Post poll [also published in Maariv, same owner – OH] found that a party led by Yaalon, Likudnik Gideon Saar and former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi would receive the same number of mandates as the Likud party. That would make two right-wing parties the two biggest parties in the country and the Joint (Arab) List would come in third.

 
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.