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News Nosh 7.6.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday July 6, 2017
 
Quote of the day: 
"It's too bad that back in the real world things aren't as pretty as they are here."
--One of the participants said at the end of a joint exercise between Israeli and Palestinian rescue and security forces, simulating a vehicular crash situation.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Israel confiscated two home solar power units Wednesday from a small Palestinian sheep-herding community, which had been contributed by the European Union to power their refrigerators, used to store cheeses – on which the family’s livelihood depends.**
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News Nosh 7.5.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday July 5, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
“I’m going to have to figure out how to talk to them about the occupation without actually using that word.” 
--An Orthodox rabbi wondered aloud how best to share with his community back home his experiences from a tour in Hebron, conducted by Breaking the Silence.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Besides inviting President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, and Mossad head Yossi Cohen to the US Independence Day July 4th bash at the official residence, the new US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman did something no previous US ambassador did: he invited the heads of Israeli settlement regional councils in the West Bank.**
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News Nosh 7.4.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday July 4, 2017
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
The subject of religionization in secular schools came up again last week when parents reported that at end-of-year class parties, children prayed for the establishment of the Third Temple, recited songs of war, simulated visiting the Temple Mount, and glorified Jerusalem.**
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News Nosh 7.3.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday, July 3, 2017
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
“This fine changed my opinion about the people of Israel. I thought they were cultured people. I guess I won’t be able to see the sea again, because I can’t make the payment, unless I use my pension or give up eating and drinking.”
--Hakam Habash, 33, a Palestinian father of four from Nablus, said after an Israeli policeman gave him a 730 shekel fine for wearing underwear at the beach. He had gone to the beach for the first time in 20 years after receiving a permit from Israel to enter the country for a day.**
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News Nosh 7.2.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday, July 2, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"You don't believe that a peace agreement is possible. I do. Which one of us is right? I don't know. One of the things that surprised me was that the Palestinians even agreed to look at my face, as a Jew, after all our history. I was surprised that a man who wakes up in the morning and has to go through the Qalandiya checkpoint, who doesn't have citizenship, who barely has any rights in the face of the Israeli army, was even willing to talk to me. And that he talks to me about co-existence."
--Left-wing author Nir Baram talks to settler columnist Emily Amrousi about the book he wrote after meeting with settlers and Palestinians beyond the Green Line during the course of year. The best-seller is now a documentary film.**
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News Nosh 6.30.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday June 30, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
“I saw places where the word ‘terrorists’ was written on photographs taken by Palestinians. But after all, they do not call themselves as such. It’s part of terminological camouflaging, which subordinated their creative work to the colonial process in which the occupier controls the material that’s captured.”
--Dr. Rona Sela, an Israeli curator and art historian, exposed some 38,000 films, 2.7 million photographs, 96,000 audio recordings and 46,000 maps and aerial photos taken by Palestinians that had been taken and kept in the IDF Archive since 1948, by order of Israel’s first prime minister and defense minister, David Ben-Gurion. More Palestinian materials exist in a collection – whose exact size and full details remain unknown – of “war booty films” seized by the IDF from Palestinian archives in raids over the years, though primarily in the 1982 Lebanon War. The material presents an alternative to the Zionist history that denied the Palestinians’ existence here, said Sela.
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News Nosh 6.29.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday June 29, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"If you think that this is a Reform or Conservative issue you are wrong. The decisions that Israel has made are a strategic disaster and can bring down the alliance between American Jews and Israel. It is not the relations with the Reform Movement that are in danger, but the F-35."
-The "frightening message that AIPAC leaders passed to their Israeli interlocutors," Maariv's Ben Caspit reported.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Israeli forces took down and destroyed some 60 solar panels in the isolated West Bank village of Jubbet al-Dhib on Wednesday morning.**
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News Nosh 6.28.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday June 28, 2017
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
Among the 37 countries Pew surveyed, US President Donald Trump scored higher marks than his predecessor, President Barack Obama, in two: Russia and Israel.*
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News Nosh 6.27.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday June 27, 2017
 
You Must Be Kidding:
"...you need to think about how to do things wisely, in a way that doesn't land you in investigations or arrest, but does work in practice. What it comes down to is creating a revolution in the country. What worked before, against the British, is not relevant today. We need something else." 
--Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, an extremist religious leader of Hilltop Youth from Yitzhar settlement, explained to them how they should act by interpreting the proverb 'For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war.'**
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News Nosh 6.26.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday June 26, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"...Jews will be prohibited from doing what Karaites, a members of an 8th-century offshoot of Jewry that doesn’t believe in the force of the Talmud, were permitted to do in the 17th century: To pray in a manner that accords with their beliefs."
--David B. Green examines the cabinet’s decision cancel the agreement to establish an egalitarian space at the Wailing Wall for mixed-gender prayer.*
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