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News Nosh 05.19.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday May 19, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
“At this rate, Elor Azariya will be appointed Deputy Defense Minister.”
--In a reference to the IDF soldier on trial for shooting in the head and killing an already shot and neutralized Palestinian assailant who was laying on the ground, Zionist Camp MK Erel Margalit reacts to the announcement that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu offered far right-wing MK Avigdor Lieberman to be Defense Minister if he joins the government.**
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News Nosh 05.18.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday May 18, 2016
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
This year the Jerusalem municipality tripled the budget for a polarizing annual flag march, where right-wing Jews celebrate the conquering of E. Jerusalem by marching through the city - and through the Muslim Quarter, which the majority of the Jewish public opposes.
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News Nosh 05.17.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday May 17, 2016
 
You Must Be Kidding:
Israel's Culture Minister Miri Regev, who supports a bill to end state funding for art institutions that are not 'loyal' to Israel, gave a speech at the Cannes Film Festival meant to encourage foreign film companies to engage in joint ventures with Israeli companies, saying Israel's beauty lies in its contrasts – between left-wing and right-wing, secular and religious, Jews and Arabs. 
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News Nosh 05.16.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday May 16, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"This is a significant struggle like no other, perhaps the most vital and important one in many years. Not just over the character of the IDF, but also the character of Israeli society."
--Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon did not mince words in an Independence Day speech last night.**
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News Nosh 05.15.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday May 15, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"...those who don’t want comparisons to historical periods and the identification of trends, should give up the slogan "One People, One State" formed by the marching (IDF) soldiers with flags.”
--Yedioth's Television reviewer Einav Schiff wrote about the controversial slogan used by the Nazis that appeared in Israel's Memorial Day ceremony.
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News Nosh 05.13.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday May 13, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"[But] even in difficult moments, when your blood boils and rage is high, we mustn't lose our way or our values. Our morals and ethics should be sanctified; compromising them could push our society down a slippery slope. We must use force when necessary, but also understand its limitations and its ability to desensitize us. We must maintain our purity of arms and our humanity, we must not lose our heads."
--Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said in a speech marking Memorial Day for Israel's fallen.**


Breaking News:
Top Hezbollah commander killed in Syria
In the biggest blow to Hezbollah since Imad Mughniyeh's death in 2008, top commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed in an explosion near Damascus. Lebanese media blamed Israel. Hezbollah MP said group will respond at "the appropriate time." (Israel Hayom and Ynet)
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News Nosh 05.11.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday May 11, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
“We won’t give up the hope of making peace with our enemies, but first we’ll reconcile within ourselves.”
--Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the opening state Memorial Day ceremony Tuesday evening, recognizing publicly, possibly for the first time, the existence of the growing rifts in Israeli society [between right and left, Mizrachi and Ashkenazi, Jews and Arabs], which many accuse him of making deeper.
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News Nosh 05.10.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday May 10, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"Nobody called S. Yizhar a traitor. Nobody boycotted him. This story, like many others, became part of the curriculum in schools. Israeli society has moved a long way since then."
--Israeli educator Dr. Revital Amiran wrote that the popular and political support for the 'Shooting Soldier,' is a watershed moment undermining the army and tells readers about the book, 'The Captive,' by S. Yizhar, a story about Israeli soldiers who arbitrarily took captive a Palestinian shepherd and how they put him through humiliating and brutal interrogations. In another Op-Ed today Amiran wrote about how the new civics textbooks made Israel appear as if it were a country of Ashkenazi religious Jews, without any internal conflicts. 

You Must Be Kidding: 
"He is the worst thing that happened to the people of Israel. Because he comes disguised as a right-winger, but in fact he is the most left-wing. He’s like Sharon. He became prime minister and then changed. He is the first one that needs to be taken down."
--‘D.,’ an Israeli hilltop youth in the West Bank tells Maariv reporter Lior Dayan about their plans to change the state.
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News Nosh 05.09.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday May 09, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
“We have come to the Knesset of Israel today to warn about the trend of the slow and continued erosion of the foundation of Israeli democracy, which expresses itself in offensive discourse, verbal violence and lack of tolerance for the other and those who are different…”
--The Presidents of Israel's universities made a joint statement backing up the statement by General Yair Golan comparing trends in Israeli society to those of Germany 90 years ago.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Israel expropriated land from an East Jerusalem Palestinian family without a tender and against the rules, then handed it over to Amana, an organization that works to establish settlements and outposts.**
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News Nosh 05.08.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday May 08, 2016
 
 
You Must Be Kidding #1: 
Israel's Defense Ministry plans to establish a new Israeli settlement for settlers it tried to evict because they lived on privately-owned Palestinian land. The new settlement will be next to the Geulat Zion outpost, which has been a focal point of violence against Palestinians and the home of the settler charged with the arson-murder of the Dawabsheh family.*

You Must Be Kidding #2: 
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, far right-wing MK Bezalel Smotrich argued that revenge is an “important and moral value” that must be conducted against Palestinians by the Israeli government, and had that been done it could have prevented subsequent Jewish attacks on Palestinians, including the July 2015 arson attack that killed three members of the Dawabsheh family.**
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