News Nosh 8.25.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday August 25, 2017
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
Adalah’s petition to the interior minister shows that Bedouins of the Negev who have been Israeli citizens for 20, 30 or even 40 years, some of whom served in the army, who voted and paid their taxes, had Interior Ministry clerks cancel their status with a keystroke.
--Haaretz's Jack Khoury reveals that Israel is revoking the citizenship of hundreds if not thousands of Bedouin citizens of Israel.
 

Front Page:
Haaretz
Yedioth Ahronoth
  • They were left alone - Official responsible for return of missing Israelis (in Gaza Strip) resigned
  • Lieberman: We won't allow missile factories in Lebanon
  • Initiative: (Minister) Steinitz to the Jewish Agency, (coalition whip) Bitan to the government
  • Former attorney generals against (Justice) Minister Shaked and the (other) ministers
  • Heat of the end of the summer holiday
  • Secret report reveals: 6,000 Israelis die of infection each year
  • Not scared - Even the threats ("He needs to be taken down") won't stop journalist Raviv Drucker - Interview
  • Heartbreaking - The husband of Michal Halimi, the latter who was murdered by her Palestinian love, speaks
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
  • Russia approved allowing Iran to increase forces in Syria
  • Your threat returned // Alon Ben-David
  • Netanyahu: "The New Likudniks - former left-wingers"
  • Witch hunt // Ben Caspit
  • Another bloody day on the roads - Hagai was killed in a hit-and-run
  • High Court opposes the Police: Demonstrations [protesting Attorney General's alleged too slow investigation of Netanyahu] will be allowed, but limited to 500 people
  • Family of [MIA soldier] Hadar Goldin: "We feel we were abandoned by the government"
  • There is a partner - This is how India became a business partner of Israel
  • Operation Protective Edge: Gadi Yarkoni lost his leg, but remains optimistic

Israel Hayom

  • Educating for terror - 12 teachers and principals incited - and were punished
  • Between Jerusalem - and Ramallah [Photo of Jared Kushner and PM Netanyahu]
  • 16-year-old Hagai was run over and left to die
  • Blow to [Tzipi] Livni, (Labor party leader) Gabay is decreasing the number of members with saved places
  • High Court: Demonstrations in Petach Tikvah [protesting Attorney General's alleged too slow investigation of Netanyahu] will be allowed, but limited to 500 people
  • Our recommendations for slichot in Jerusalem
  • Children of Elad Salomon, who was murdered in the attack in Halamish [settlement], prepare for the first day of school
  • Moshe Friedman, an ultra-Orthodox entrepreneur, established a fund that invests only in ultra-Orthodox start-ups
  • Who are you Meni Naftali? From [running] the Prime Minister's Residence to the demonstrations outside the Attorney General's home: Meni Naftali battles corruption?


News Summary:
The High Court ruled in favor of a limited free speech - and against the Police - and allowed anti-Netanyahu protesters to continue their weekly demonstration outside the home of the Attorney General, but with a maximum of 500 protesters, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman suggested that Israel would destroy Iranian military bases and missile factories in Lebanon, and the families of Israelis missing in the Gaza Strip said they felt abandoned by the government after the government's liason for missing Israelis resigned making top stories in the Friday Hebrew newspapers.

 Also in the news were conflicting reports about the views of Palestinian officials in Ramallah regarding the US intentions for bringing about an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. US Middle East envoys Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt met with both Israeli Prime Minister Binyamini Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday. Kushner told both leaders that US President Donald Trump aimed to realize 'the ultimate deal' of Israeli-Palestinian peace. Maariv reported that unlike his recent comments about the Palestinian issue, Abbas commended Trump on his efforts to seek peace. But Israel Hayom reported that officials in Ramallah were worried because Kushner never mentioned the phrase 'two-state solution.' Another report quoted Palestinian leadership severely criticizing the Americans and their ability to serve as an honest mediator between the two sides while acceding to Israeli demands by categorically refusing to publically support the two-state solution.


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