News Nosh 6.23.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday June 23, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"Woe unto us if the State of Israel is defined entirely as 'the State of the will of the people.' Woe unto us if the Israel Defense Forces becomes the 'army of the will of the people'; if the High Court rules its laws according to the 'Constitution of the People's Will', if we replace the Knesset with a referendum."
--Speaking at the 2017 Herzliya Conference, President Reuven Rivln warned that Israel is moving towards anarchy.*


Front Page:
Haaretz
Yedioth Ahronoth
  • “We want to fight the cancer, not the bureaucracy”
  • (Public Security Minister) Erdan: The raid on ‘Yedioth Books’ is worrying and far-reaching
  • Chinese torture // Nahum Barnea on the slow changes to Israel: more religious, more politicized judicial system
  • Poetic prisoner // Sima Kadmon on how the country’s ‘gatekeepers’ are turning into servants of the rulers
  • Next week: Heavy heat
  • The Elovitch affair: Bezeq CEO was interrogated
  • She’s in our hands – Britney Spears interview to Yedioth
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
  • The admonition speech – President Reuven Rivlin expressed fear of anarchy and worry that the IDF, High Court and Knesset would be harmed
  • Barak: “Netanyahu is prepared to endanger the state in order to keep his chair”; Likud: “He sounds like a broken record”
  • An Israeli resident crossed the northern border and turned himself over to the Lebanese Army
  • The handicapped: Rejected the Knesset offer (as did Netanyahu)
  • In memory of Hadar and Hadas (two Border Police soldiers killed in Jerusalem) – Hundreds participated in candle-lighting ceremony in their memory
  • The dispute at Hadassah Hospital: The battle continues and there is no solution in the horizon
  • Qalqilya first: The dirty deal // Ben Caspit; The architects of the absurd // Kalman Libeskind; Building on the right-wing // Udi Segal; The edge of the iceberg // Nadav Haetzni
  • Since then and always – Maariv correspondent joined ‘Breaking the Silence’ and ‘Im Tirtzu’ tours
  • Spy games: A decade since his death, the mysterious case of Ashraf Marwan was opened


News Summary:
*President Reuven Rivlin warned of anarchy in Israeli society, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said the police raid on ‘Yedioth Books’ publishing house was “very worrying,” IDF Intel chief Gen. Hertzi Halevi said a war with Hezbollah was a greater threat to Israel than an operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and all the papers were concerned about the crisis between doctors and management at Hadassah Hospital making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
 
 
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.