APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday March 10, 2017
Quote of the day:
“I can’t unsee what I’ve seen or ignore what I know. The violation of another people by the Jewish State in
the name of the Jewish people has pricked my conscience and inspired my activism over these last four
decades.”
--Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founder of Ms. Magazine and a past Chair of Americans for Peace Now, writes that she expects that under the new Israeli entry ban, she’ll end up on the government’s blacklist - but she won’t give up on Israel.
--Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founder of Ms. Magazine and a past Chair of Americans for Peace Now, writes that she expects that under the new Israeli entry ban, she’ll end up on the government’s blacklist - but she won’t give up on Israel.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- With a tailwind from the police, the government is closer to turning prostitution users into criminals
- The battle against sexual harassers goes up a level – New policy of Tel-Aviv University: Publicize names of lecturers who sexually harassed and cancel the statute of limitations on crimes
- Netanyahu to Putin: We don’t want Iran to replace ISIS terror; PM will try to convince the US to cancel the nuclear agreement; Professors in the US: The boycott law pushes liberals to BDS
- Blurring the distinction between Lebanon and Hezbollah could change the face of the next war // Amos Harel
- Even if he loses in the next elections, the radical right-wing leader in Holland created a transformation in Europe’s attitude towards immigration // Shlomo Papirblat
- Young Saudis are driving a quiet and slow revolution
- In Joseph Cedar’s new film, any relation to reality is not coincidental – an interview
Yedioth Ahronoth
- The scary daycare centers
- 15 years after he fell, a daughter was born to the combat soldier
- Mama’s soldier (Photo of Maj. Gen. Orit Kruman-Nagari in uniform with her toddler daughter dressed as a female soldier, too)
- King Richard – Interview with Richard Gere on Hollywood, Israel, the Palestinians, Trump, Julia Roberts
- Horror house // Nahum Barnea returns from visit to Washington
- The tunnels of the nose report // Sima Kadmon on Netanyahu’s alibis about how he couldn’t have smoke so many gift cigars
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- Iran is here – “Tehran is building a military force with the intention of establishing a naval port in Syria,” Prime Minister Netanyahu told Putin in their meeting yesterday
- Temporary victory? High Court rejected the appeals to order an investigation into Netanyahu in the submarine affairs, but the petitioners are pleased: “Whoever needs to understand the hint – understood. There will be an investigation of Netanyahu in the affair”
- The real situation // Ben Caspit
- Are you addicted to your cellular phone?
- Happiness and joy (Photo of children in costume for Purim Holiday
- “The state betrayed us” – The problem of the (African) infiltrators worsens, and residents of south Tel-Aviv feel despair
- 50 years since the Six Day War: The retaliation actions that set the Middle East on fire // Dr. Uri Milstein
Israel Hayom
- Netanyahu: “Iran is trying to establish a naval port in Syria” – Visit to Moscow – in the wake of the Iranian ballistic missile test
- Women leading in the tank (photo)
- David Friedman succeeded in passing another obstacle
- Masks, songs and dances (for Purim)
- Report: One of the members of the British royalty is expected to visit Israel
- Rabbi Levinstein doesn’t stop: “Girls in the periphery of the country go to combat units, Ashkenazi girls play on computers”
- Behind the pardons – President Reuven Rivlin reveals how he decides who to pardon
- On the one hand, he’s an admired man of education, on the other hand his manner is hurtful. Rabbi Levinstein sparks another storm
News Summary:
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu discusses Iran with Russian President Vladimir Putin while High Court justices rejected petitions regarding the investigations involving
Netanyahu and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit's involvement in them. The controversial settler
rabbi Yigal Levinstein added more homophobic remarks to his recent misogynist ones,
the US Senate approved the nomination of vocal settlement supporter, David
Friedman, as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel, and photos of children in costume for the Purim
holiday were top stories in today’s Friday Hebrew newspapers. But few mentioned that Israel has imposed a closure over the Palestinian territories for the whole Purim
holiday weekend. And in another travel ban, Jewish scholars said that Israel’s new ban against foreigners
who expressed support for boycotts of settlements or of the state would push them to BDS.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.