News Nosh 7.21.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday July 21, 2017
 
Number of the day:
48.
--Percentage of Israelis who think Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is corrupt, according to poll published today in Maariv. Nevertheless, the Likud still leads the Knesset, but drops to 24 mandates, compared to the 30 it received in elections.


Front Page:
Haaretz
  • State Comptroller suspects: Internal information leaked to Haifa chemicals
  • Netanyahu secretly met with UAE Foreign Minister in 2012
  • Injuries in clashes near Temple Mount: Fear of flare-up today
  • The message revealed in the Budapest speech // Aluf Benn
  • Two nationalists met in a city in Europe // Chemi Shalev
  • US is leaving Syria for good // Zvi Bar’el
  • Finance Ministry: Palestinian laborers are systematically taken advantage of and pay thousands of shekels to work
  • 3-year prison sentence for Israeli blogger jailed in Azerbaijan
  • We are not second class: Thousands demonstrated against discrimination of LGBT
  • Expansive study: Many people suffering from dementia are mistakenly diagnosed as having Alzheimers
  • Mohammed Othman is the skateboard prophet of Palestine
  • Recklessly and without oversight – This is how military acquisition in Israel takes place
  • My son was born in Birmingham and killed as a jihadi serving ISIS // NYT
  • A look at the hidden play that Moshe Shamir wrote for the Mapam theater

Yedioth Ahronoth

  • Preparedness for Temple Mount
  • Is the Temple Mount in our hands? // Nahum Barnea
  • Israel fell into a trap // Alex Fishman
  • Dispute between (President) Rivlin and Netanyahu: President spoke with Erdogan despite Prime Minister’s objections
  • Together with pride – Thousands participated in protest of Gay community against state intention to prevent them from adopting children
  • Next week: Another heat wave
  • A sea of falsehoods – This is how former senior Navy commanders reap fat benefits from mediating deals with Navy
  • The silence of the ministers // Sima Kadmon
  • To understand the right-wing // Raanan Shaked
  • “Netanyahu needs to resign” – Former chief justice Meir Shamgar in a special interview with his wife, retired judge Michal Rubinstein
  • The journey of their lives – The moving hike of a wounded IDF soldier to the Himalayas

Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)

Israel Hayom

  • Tension at the Temple Mount: “We will act with an iron fist against those inciting to violence”
  • Israel and Jordan to establish committee for security arrangements at the Temple Mount – without the Palestinians
  • Exclusive - “I am happy to open a new chapter of our relations with Israel” – Hungarian PM
  • The dispute over (LGBT) adoption
  • Case 3000: On the way to signing a state witness agreement with Ganor

 
News Summary:
The police were on the highest alert for violence outside the Temple Mount at Friday prayers today due to the ongoing tensions over the placement of metal detectors and thousands of Israelis joined a protest against the state’s opposition to LGBT’s right to adopt making the top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
 
UPDATE: Clashes have erupted after Israel Police decided Friday morning not to remove the metal detectors installed at the entrance of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem after a deadly attack there killing two Border Police last Friday. The Police, however, said the decision came from the political echelons which met last night to decide whether to remove them. The security cabinet held a night meeting Thursday (or early Friday morning according to Haaretz). Moreover, President Reuven Rivlin spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the metal detector crisis at the latter’s request, despite the opposition of Netanyahu and the Foreign Ministry. Israel's top brass believe the metal detectors are not worth the bloodshed and that Netanyahu knows that, Haaretz+ reported and many Israeli commentators agreed. Also, the ‘Shooting Soldier from Hebron,’ Elor Azaria, who executed an incapacitated Palestinian attacker and sentenced to 1.5 years in jail, was released to house arrest until his appeal is decided at month’s end.
 
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.