News Nosh 09.19.14

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday September 19, 2014

Quote of the day:
“But he told me, ‘I’m afraid they’ll burn me like they burned Abu Khdeir, so I won’t stay at home.’”
--Father of one of hundreds of children from E. Jerusalem detained by Israel since the riots began some three months ago says what his son answered him when told not to go out.**


Front Page News:
Haaretz
Yedioth Ahronoth
  • Netanyahu is driving out the good ones" - Sources in Likud blamed prime minister of dramatic resignation of Minister Gideon Saar; MKs vie for his job
  • A wall to knock your head against // Nahum Barnea says resignation of highly popular ministers Saar and Kahlon, when Likud is in power, shows Netanyahu can't offer ministers a ladder to climb, only a wall
  • His second childhood // Sima Kadmon writes that all the analyses are missing the main reason Saar says he left: the experience of being an older father to a first son
  • Scotland's choice
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links)
  • The day after (Main photo: Resigned Minister Gideon Saar and his wife, Geula Even, pushing baby stroller)
  • Marked // Ben Caspit writes that Netanyahu and Saar did not get along and anyone who was in Saar's camp was marked
  • The poor stitching of the Netanyahu government is unraveling // Udi Segal
  • Netanyahu allows (Lapid's) 0% VAT bill to go to debate in Knesset, at expense of security
  • Head of the snake - The ISIS building and the identities of top ISIS terrorists on US elimination list
  • The brother's version - Menachem Pinto, brother of Rabbi Yeshayahu Pinto (accused of bribery), says Efraim Bracha was in close contact with Rabbi Pinto
  • This is what will be done to the man - Police are sick of (far-right-wing activist) Yehuda Glick, who makes tours of the Temple Mount, and was recently arrested on suspicion of attacking an Arab woman there. The problem is that at the time of the supposed attack, Glick was in court
  • After 22 years of marriage: Tzofit and Avram Grant are divorcing
  • Why doesn't anyone offer a job to (Haim) Topol?
Israel Hayom

News Summary:
Today's top story in the Hebrew papers focused on the resignation of popular Likud minister Gideon Saar, who was to blame, who was to take his place and his life the day after. 

**Meanwhile, the papers are also discussing the 'Children's Intifada' in E. Jerusalem. Both Haaretz and Yedioth's Nahum Barnea used the phrase to refer to the stone-throwing and Molotov cocktail throwing by youth in the northern part of E. Jerusalem, where Mohammed Abu Khdeir was murdered by ultra-Orthodox Jews and Mohammed Sunuqrut was killed by Border Police, according to an Israeli and Palestinian autopsy. Barnea writes that if there weren't so many other big stories, this would be the top of the news. Israel Hayom's Nadav Shragai writes that the unrest is organized and 'semi-funded.'
 
And in regards to Palestinian-Israeli negotiations and the Gaza War, Deputy Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk said Hamas would rather avoid war with Israel, but if Israel fails to lift the blockade, another war is inevitable, because the people of Gaza cannot stay in the same miserable situation. Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti told Reuters that Gaza won the war, that peace talks with Israel were pointless. Barghouti said the fight should shift to boycotting Israel so that the occupation would be too costly to bear.
 


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