APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday December 12, 2014
Number of the day:
66.
--Percentage of Israelis who do not want Israeli Prime Minister Binaymin Netanyahu to serve another term - up from 60% last week.
--Percentage of Israelis who do not want Israeli Prime Minister Binaymin Netanyahu to serve another term - up from 60% last week.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- The race has begun - After (Likudnik Gideon) Saar announced he won't run, the political picture becomes clearer: The battle will be between Netanyahu and Herzog-Livni. Polls prophesize a close battle, but those who will decide are those who make the recommendation to the President: Lieberman, Kahlon and the ultra-Orthodox parties
- Herzog: It pained me to agree to rotation, but for Livni it was the only way
- The 'Kulanu' party rules were revealed: Kahlon will prepare the party list, Kahlon will appoint and Kahlon will decide
- The announcement of elections dried out the diplomatic plans of senior White House officials
- Dispute over cause of death of Palestinian minister: Pressure on Abbas to continue security coordination (with Israel)
- Only Hamas will gain from ending security cooperation // Amos Harel
- State preventing Rabbis for Human Rights from receiving tax benefits because some of its activities "are not for the benefit of residents of Israel"
- Suspects in arson of Bi-Lingual (Jewish-Arab) school: Lehava activists
- The forgotten Jewish community in Sudan that even researchers don't know about
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Without gloves - The Livni-Herzog effect: Netanyahu severely attacked the union - "The decision will be either the left or me"; Livni visiting communities around Gaza Strip: "Netanyahu is weak against terror"
- The religious bang - Habayit Hayehudi is on the edge of exploding: Bennett refused Uri Ariel's demands; Drama in Shas: Yishai threatens to leave
- Bibi shiduchs // Nahum Barnea
- State of the unions // Sima Kadmon
- Run to vote // (famous singer) Shlomo Artzi
- No, really (why is Netanyahu running to elections)? // Raanan Shaked
- The new Bouji (Herzog) // Nechama Dweik
- The vision of the left-wing // Hanoch Daum
- Secret video clip leaked to Hamas - Embarrassment in IDF: Investigation into lessons learned from infiltration of terrorists to Zikim in Operation Protective Edge reached the Internet, apparently via Whatsapp
- Shalom on you - A moment before he becomes a father, (actor) Shalom Michaelshwili really opens up
- Not apologizing - (Singer) Amir Benayoun speaks for the first time about the storm over his (racist) song and insists he is not a racist
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- Netanyahu continues to lose support - Panels Politics poll for Maariv: 66% are not interested in another term of Prime Minister, compared to 60% last week. Joint Herzog-Livni list wins 24 mandates compared to 20 for Likud
- Moshe Kahlon registered 'Kulanu' party and denied a union with Lapid and Lieberman
- Shas on verge of division: Yishai moving to establish ultra-Orthodox party with him at its head
- Staying outside: Gideon Saar decided not to run for head of Likud
- Leaving the Knesset: Oldest of MKs, Binyamin (Fuad) Ben-Eliezar resigns
- Israel: Abu Ein died from a heart attack; The Palestinians: He was beaten to death - Autopsy of corpse of Settlements Minister Ziyad Abu Ein took place in Jordan, but both sides claim contradicting findings. Fear of violent clashes in West Bank and Jerusalem area
- Israel in Canada: This is how we were almost neighbors of US
Israel Hayom
- Netanyahu: The (Israeli) media is on a campaign to transfer the power to the left-wing
- Shas: Fateful days
- Kahlon will appoint, Kahlon will administer
- Pretentious attack by the left-wing // Haim Shine
- Curses? Commitments must be taken // Dan Margalit
- Tzipi Livni, who in polls barely passes the threshold, joined forces with Herzog and suddenly turned into a candidate for prime minister // Tzipi Livni
- Oversight: IDF investigation - on the Internet
- Those who set Bi-Lingual (Jewish-Arab) school on fire were arrested
- Results of the autopsy prove: Senior Palestinian official died of heart attack
- Israeli film 'Gett' is candidate for Golden Globe award
News Summary:
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu continues to lose support against the Tzipi Livni - Isaac Herzog duo, according to polls by Maariv and Channel 2 as Netanyahu accuses the media of campaigning against him and Livni and Herzog try to present Netanyahu as weak on security issues making top news in the Friday newspapers. Also high in the news: Israeli and Palestinian coroners differ on whether Israel was responsible for the death of Palestinian Settlements Minister Ziyad Abu Ein (although, based on the headlines in some of the Israeli media, such as Israel Hayom and Ynet, it appears that the autopsy 'proved' that Israel was not responsible) as thousands attended his state funeral and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas halted all contact and security coordination with Israel, the names of the three young men who were arrested for the arson at the Jewish-Arab Yad B'Yad school in Jerusalem were released - activists in the far right-wing anti-Arab Lehava organization and Ynet writes that they were behind other racist attacks, and the embarrassment of the IDF after an internal presentation on lessons learned from the Hamas infiltration and attack of an IDF post near Kibbutz Zikim was leaked to the Internet.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu continues to lose support against the Tzipi Livni - Isaac Herzog duo, according to polls by Maariv and Channel 2 as Netanyahu accuses the media of campaigning against him and Livni and Herzog try to present Netanyahu as weak on security issues making top news in the Friday newspapers. Also high in the news: Israeli and Palestinian coroners differ on whether Israel was responsible for the death of Palestinian Settlements Minister Ziyad Abu Ein (although, based on the headlines in some of the Israeli media, such as Israel Hayom and Ynet, it appears that the autopsy 'proved' that Israel was not responsible) as thousands attended his state funeral and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas halted all contact and security coordination with Israel, the names of the three young men who were arrested for the arson at the Jewish-Arab Yad B'Yad school in Jerusalem were released - activists in the far right-wing anti-Arab Lehava organization and Ynet writes that they were behind other racist attacks, and the embarrassment of the IDF after an internal presentation on lessons learned from the Hamas infiltration and attack of an IDF post near Kibbutz Zikim was leaked to the Internet.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.