APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday November 12, 2019
You Must Be Kidding:
"Go to the Arabs, go to Ayman Odeh, terrorist!"
-A group of ultra-Orthodox youth shouted at Kahol-Lavan leader Benny Gantz outside the wedding hall of the son of ultra-Orthodox MK Yaakov Asher over the possibility that Gantz would form a minority government with the support of the mostly Arab Joint List.*
Quote of the day:
You Must Be Kidding:
"Go to the Arabs, go to Ayman Odeh, terrorist!"
-A group of ultra-Orthodox youth shouted at Kahol-Lavan leader Benny Gantz outside the wedding hall of the son of ultra-Orthodox MK Yaakov Asher over the possibility that Gantz would form a minority government with the support of the mostly Arab Joint List.*
Quote of the day:
"Benny, the very fact that you attended the wedding of an ultra-Orthodox public persona in
these sensitive political times expresses your public courage and your natural desire, which I know of
personally, to bring closer and not to distance. Regardless of the results of the (political)
negotiations in the coming days, you honored me and my family and the entire ultra-Orthodox sector -
and for that I thank you."
--Ultra-Orthodox MK Yaakov Asher wrote to Benny Gantz after hearing he was verbally attacked by ultra-Orthodox youth outside the wedding hall.*
--Ultra-Orthodox MK Yaakov Asher wrote to Benny Gantz after hearing he was verbally attacked by ultra-Orthodox youth outside the wedding hall.*
Breaking News:
Before dawn Tuesday morning, Israel assassinated Baha Abu al-Attta, the commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in the Gaza Strip, also killing his wife. The Damascus home of Islamic Jihad official Akram Al-Ajouri was also targeted. Later it was known that the army carried out two more assassination strikes against PIJ activists: one that killed one man and another that killed two men riding a motorbike while they allegedly were on their way to shoot rockets. The PIJ said it would mount an "unprecedented response" to Israel's attacks, and warned the Jewish state that it "opened the gates of hell." PIJ retaliated with more than 190 rockets on southern and central Israel by 8PM. Israel’s Homefront Command declared an emergency across parts of Israel and schools and businesses were closed. Israel warned Hamas: "If you join in - the IDF will attack you, if you do not - the IDF will not attack you," the message read. Many were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. Egyptian mediators tried to arrange an Israel-Gaza truce.
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