APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday September 23, 2016
Quote of the day:
"His words were not directed to the ears of Mahmoud Abbas, but to Obama's ears in order to
prevent his (diplomatic) move in January, a move which Netanyahu fears. When people hear the words of
Netanyahu, they should realize that he does not display any political initiative or any political courage, but
only political survival."
--Meretz leader MK Zehava Galon reacts to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech at the UN.
--Meretz leader MK Zehava Galon reacts to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech at the UN.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Netanyahu: The UN has become a moral farce, we won’t agree to dictates
- Teacher’s hour // Yossi Verter
- Netanyahu’s luck // Chemi Shalev
- Same trick // Caroline Landsmann
- The passion has gone // Barak Ravid
- A show of despair // Jacky Khoury
- Also as Minister of Agriculture, Uri Ariel is giving public money to his associates in religious education system
- The story of the chief of the British nuclear program, who was suspected of leaks to Israel and suddenly died
- The killing in Syria returns – The collapse of the ceasefire proves: Russia and the US can talk, but they are not the landlords on the ground
- “The honor of the nation was harmed”: A young man was convicted for spray painting on a flag
- The women of the prisoners: The prison conditions for conjugal visits in jail are shameful
- Ofir film prizes were awarded: Regev protested over the poem by Darwish
- A nursery school reignites the protest over the ultra-Orthodoxation in Jerusalem
Yedioth Ahronoth
- “The UN has become a farce” - (Netanyahu at the UN)
- Things one sees from here // Yoaz Hendel in New York
- The settlements dilemma // Nahum Barnea
- Between Barak and Obama // Sima Kadmon
- Pandemonium at the film ceremony – (Culture Minister) Regev is again in the eye of the storm
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- Netanyahu to Abu Mazen: Come to the Knesset and I will come to Ramallah
- Between two poles // Ben Caspit
- Another path // Caroline Glick
- Abu Mazen at the UN: The settlers established terror groups that burn whole families
- State Comptroller: Education Ministry did not act sufficiently to prevent racism
- Despite the safety faults: the nuclear reactor in Dimona will continue working
- 20 years since the Western Wall tunnels riots: the failures, the lessons, the heroes // Dr. Mati Milstein
- Yair Lapid vs. B’tselem
- Laws of escalation: Both sides are looking for reasons for an increase in the number of attacks // Gal Berger
Israel Hayom
- Netanyahu to Abu Mazen: Come to the Knesset, I will come to Ramallah; PM to UN: “Leave aside the weapons, enough of the fighting against Israel”
- Netanyahu’s home court // Mati Tuchfeld
- At this time, there is no partner // Dan Margalit
- Jerusalem’s secrets: Invitation to tour rare sights in the capital
- “The Shalit family forgot us”: 5 years after release of Gilad Shalit, the campaign activists talk about the disappointment and the disillusionment
- The journey to life: Yehuda Yitzhak Yisraeli, who was mortally wounded in Operation Protective Edge (Gaza war 2014), is beginning to communicate
- The national poet – “It’s us of all people, the Mizrachim, who are more open and liberal than others.” Yossi Gispan in a sharp interview
News Summary:
At the UN General assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called the UN a ‘moral farce’ for its criticism of Israel and invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the Knesset, for which he was blasted by MKs on the left, who called his words empty, and Abbas told the UN that Jewish settlers had formed terror groups, for which right-wing MKs accused him of incitement, making top headlines in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
Meanwhile, the Israel’s State Comptroller slammed the Education Ministry’s failure to decrease racism in schools,
the unarmed 12-year-old Palestinian girl, who Israeli guards shot and injured at a checkpoint, denied their claim that she said she wanted to die, and Culture Minister Miri Regev sparked outrage - again - and walkouts at the Israeli Ophir film awards ceremony, when she spoke strongly against the words and spirit of deceased Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish, (also an Israeli citizen) whose famous poem, ‘Write it down, I am an Arab,” was the origin of the film, 'Sandstorm,' – all in Arabic - that won the Best Picture award.
At the UN General assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called the UN a ‘moral farce’ for its criticism of Israel and invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the Knesset, for which he was blasted by MKs on the left, who called his words empty, and Abbas told the UN that Jewish settlers had formed terror groups, for which right-wing MKs accused him of incitement, making top headlines in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
Meanwhile, the Israel’s State Comptroller slammed the Education Ministry’s failure to decrease racism in schools,
the unarmed 12-year-old Palestinian girl, who Israeli guards shot and injured at a checkpoint, denied their claim that she said she wanted to die, and Culture Minister Miri Regev sparked outrage - again - and walkouts at the Israeli Ophir film awards ceremony, when she spoke strongly against the words and spirit of deceased Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish, (also an Israeli citizen) whose famous poem, ‘Write it down, I am an Arab,” was the origin of the film, 'Sandstorm,' – all in Arabic - that won the Best Picture award.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.