APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 31, 2012
Quote of the day:
"We're not looking for a happy marriage with the Palestinians, but for a divorce agreement we can live with."
--Yair Lapid unveiled his political platform on a settlement yesterday.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday October 30, 2012
Quote of the day:
"Unless you have a vested interest in it, you're not going to stand up to those who are against it."
--Dennis Ross tells Haaretz that peace is up to the two sides.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday October 29, 2012
Quote of the day:
"I suggest that he asks himself what will happen when millions of citizens in Nablus, Jenin and Jericho vote for the Knesset, or the name that will be given to what happens in Israel when it turns out that millions of people like these cannot vote for the Knesset."
--Ehud Barak questions Knesset Speaker Rubi Rivlin's logic at the Yitzhak Rabin memorial when Rivlin said, "Between the Jordan river and the sea, there can only be one state, Jewish and democratic, with a solid Jewish majority."**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday October 28, 2012
Quote of the day:
"We haven't learned anything since the murder. We have here unprecedented political radicalization. We've gone farther than ever and now it turns out that the murder was just a stop on the way."
-- Rachel Rabin Yaakov, sister of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, speaks 17 years after his assassination. **(Ynet)
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 26, 2012
Quote of the day:
"A senior television editor told me: The elections here are being held as if we are in Sweden. There is an elephant that no one wants to talk about, and then your song came and put that elephant in the room."
--Yizhar Ashdot on his anti-war song.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday October 25, 2012
Quote of the day:
"They are suffering and we are suffering, while the politicians on both sides celebrate."
--Zilpah Youz, whose house was destroyed by a rocket yesterday, says she blames the government not the Palestinians. (Ynet)**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 24, 2012
Quote of the day:
"The more I’m obligated to the public and the less to a small number of wealthy people from whom I begged for money or ate with in a fancy restaurant, my public work will be better. I’ll always remember where I came from, and who sent me.”
--Meretz party candidate Tamar Zandberg explains why she uses the internet to fundraise and why she limited donations for her run for Knesset to 1000 shekels.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday October 23, 2012
Number of the day:
49.--Percentage of Jewish public that wants the state to treat Jewish citizens better than Arab ones. (See poll below.)**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday, October 22, 2012
Quote of the day:
"I couldn't represent Israel now."
--Former Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gabriella Shalev, says Israeli Prime Minister's attacks against US administration are going to boomerang.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday October 21, 2012
Quote of the day:
"One day the soldiers are saints and the people give them Hanukkah donuts, and the next day we are Jew-haters."
--Commander of a territorial brigade in the West Bank, describing the army's complicated relations with settlers in a Ph.D. dissertation. (Haaretz)
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 19, 2012
Quote of the day:
"The failure of the two-state solution."
--The reason that the Arab party list Ra'am-Ta'al changed its platform this week from supporting a two-state solution to supporting a binational state.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday October 18, 2012Quote of the day:
"I come in peace."
--New Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Atef Salem said to Shimon Peres upon offering his credentials.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 17, 2012
Number of the day:
2,279.
--Number of calories Israel calculated were enough to avoid causing the Palestinians in Gaza to starve.** (Haaretz)
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday October 16, 2012
Quote of the day:
"The upcoming (Israeli) elections are an opportunity to revive the peace process...I intend to speak with the people of Israel and tell them that I am a partner."
--Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had his own views about the Israeli elections campaign.**(NRG Hebrew)
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday October 15, 2012
Quote of the day:
"To learn to kill is a matter of habit."
Words from new song by musician Yizhar Ashdot that Army Radio director Yaron Dekel prohibited from broadcast yesterday.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday October 14, 2012
Quote of the day:
"Sometimes it even seems to me that I am the last Zionist."
--Meron Benvenisti, Jewish-Israeli pioneer, tells Haaretz in interview where he describes his vision for a bi-national state.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 12, 2012
Quote of the day:
"My dream is to read 'Tuvia the Milkman' by Shalom Aleichem in its original language."
--Yusuf Alkalai, Arab student of Yiddish at Bar-Ilan University.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday October 11, 2012
Quote of the day:
"I hope the campaign will remain civilized and slander free and that the parties and candidates respect each other."
--Israeli President Shimon Peres.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 10, 2012
Number of the day:
7,500.
--Number of Palestinian olive trees destroyed in 2011 by Jewish attackers. Olive-picking season has begun again...**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday October 9, 2012
Quote of the day:
"The Turks put a label that the marble is Turkish, but everyone knows it's Iranian."
--Yedioth reveals how the latest interior design fad has led to secret Iranian-Israeli commerce.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 5, 2012
Quote of the day:
"I wanted to do this for years, but did not have enough courage."
--Israeli man who fought in Yom Kippur War reacts to news that the letter he wrote, asking to return the ID that he took from a dead Egyptian soldier, has achieved its goal.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday October 4, 2012
Quote of the day:
These operations are so heroic and complex that they are just like Mossad activities."
--Anonymous Israeli rabbi reveals he smuggled 'Four Species' to Jews in Syria and Iran for the Sukkot holiday.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 3, 2012
Numbers of the day:
17 and 0.
--Number of mosques vandalized by 'price-tag' attacks and number of people charged with the attacks, writes Yedioth's Alex Fishman in a look at what the government is - and is not - doing to stop Jewish terror.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday October 2, 2012
Quote of the day:
"Would you have sex with an Arab?"
--Question put to Israeli barhoppers and turned into a film.**
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