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News Nosh 3.25.20

by APN 03/25/20
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday March 25, 2020
 

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Without coordinating his arrival with the Palestinian Authority, Israeli Police dumped a very sick Palestinian laborer, who was working illegally in Israel, at a West Bank checkpoint.*

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News Nosh 3.24.20

by APN 03/24/20
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday March 24, 2020

 
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"Because of the coronavirus," Israel's Education Ministry reduced the number of topics that will be on the high school civics matriculation exam this summer: all those related to aspects of the Jewish character of Israel will remain, but questions about the High Court of Justice, the historical roots of the conflict between Jews and Arabs and inequality in contemporary Israel won't and it will include very little about the rule of law.**

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News Nosh 3.23.20

by APN 03/23/20
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday March 23, 2020
 
Quote of the day:
"The main problem with this sudden epidemic is that there is no one to hate, no one to take revenge on, and no obvious enemy to destroy."
--Israeli poet, Yehonatan Geffen, in an Op-Ed in Yedioth.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Some Israeli backpackers returning from Peru to Israel rioted at the airport when told they must sign a Health Ministry form committing to self-quarantine.**

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News Nosh 3.22.20

by APN 03/22/20
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday March 22, 2020

 
Quote of the day:
“The attempt to prevent the elected Knesset from overseeing what an unelected prime minister does is a coup attempt. And as long as the Knesset is not functioning, we live in a dictatorship.”
—Yuval Noah Harari in a chilling Op-Ed in today's Yedioth Ahronoth.*

You Must Be Kidding #1: 
Netanyahu and three Likud ministers wanted to shut down the Knesset for corona-related reasons, but don't down synagogues even though a third of the corona infected cases were tracked back to synagogues. In the Jewish Diaspora synagogues were closed.**

You Must Be Kidding #2: 
Israeli police went into a Palestinian neighborhood in E. Jerusalem to apprehend a young man suspected of performing sanitation work on behalf of the Palestinian Authority in E. Jerusalem, which police do not allow. And residents said that arrests are conducted without protective gear and police officers do not abide by the social-distancing orders.***

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News Nosh 3.19.20

by APN 03/19/20
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday March 19, 2020
 
Quote of the day:
"The corona will disappear in the end. But democracy never goes back to zero: what is going wrong these days, under the auspices of corona, will not be easily corrected. Corona must therefore be dealt with, as if there weren’t a terrorist attack against democracy in front of our eyes, and we must fight for democracy as if there were no corona."
--Yedioth's top political commentator, Nahum Barnea writes in an Op-Ed today, after the government employed numerous anti-democratic  means to fight the corona virus.**

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News Nosh 3.18.20

by APN 03/18/20
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday March 18, 2020

 
Quote of the day:
"Dear world, how is the lockdown? --Gaza."
--One of the many sardonic political social media posts made by Gazans this week.*

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News Nosh 3.17.20

by APN 03/17/20
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday March 17, 2020

 
Quote of the day:
"Nothing brings people together in solidarity like a natural disaster, even when that disaster requires more social distancing than gathering together. Let the new plague be our shared enemy."
--Middle East experts, Seraj Assi and Zachary Foster, write in a beautiful essay about how Jews and Arabs united to fight a locust plague in Palestine in 1915.*

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News Nosh 3.17.20

by APN 03/17/20
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday March 17, 2020
 
You Must Be Kidding:
“The time has come to clear my conscience. It feels that the end of the world is near."
--Fearing the end of the world, an Israeli man returned a 2,000-year-old catapult bolt to Israel Antiquities Authority press.*

Breaking News:
In Dead of Night, Israel Approves Harsher Coronavirus Tracking Methods Than Gov't Stated
Government approves regulations permitting collection of data without court order, circumventing Knesset in the process. (Haaretz+ and Israel Hayom)

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News Nosh 3.15.20

by APN 03/15/20
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday March 15, 2020
 
Quote of the day:
"Your step...is a courageous act and has a chance to begin a process of repair and healing. You can break the glass ceiling that hinders Arab society from being a tremendous growth engine in all walks of life. It is likely that you will suddenly find that the glass ceiling that prevents Israel from rising as a state, as a society, as a democracy - will also be shattered, at last."
--Author and Israel's moral compass, David Grossman wrote in Yedioth about Kahol-Lavan leader Benny Gantz's call for the mostly Arab 'Joint List' to be part of the emergency unity government that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called for. Netanyahu rejected the inclusion of the Joint List.*

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News Nosh 3.12.20

by APN 03/12/20
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday March 12, 2020
 
Quote of the day:
“In the State of Israel, there are no half-citizens. There are deep disagreements, but no semi-citizens.”
—President Reuven Rivlin said Wednesday, leveling criticism at the heads of the parties over their apparent disdain for the Arab electorate.*

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"This report brings the region closer to peace because as it has been said repeatedly, peace can only be built on a foundation of truth, anything else will crumble and fail."
--Trump Administration officiabolishal told 'Israel Hayom' in regards to the policy change, according to which Palestinians of East Jerusalem are no longer considered Palestinian. They are now referred to as "Arab residents of Jerusalem."**

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