The city of Jerusalem lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The old city of Jerusalem, which includes the Western Wall, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Dome of the Rock, has often been a flashpoint for violence. East Jerusalem, which is majority Palestinian, was annexed by Israel in the wake of the 1967 war and officially united with (majority Jewish) West Jerusalem.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday October 14, 2013
Quote of the day:
"... if you observe American Jews, you know full well that young American Jews are much less disposed to tolerate
the cognitive dissonance that results from the clash between their values and some Israeli policies."
--Americans for Peace Now spokesman, Ori Nir, analyzes recent polls showing a new American Jewish
generation that is alienated from an intransigent Israel.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday October 13, 2013
Quote of the day:
"Students need music in order to cry, she explained."
--Haaretz education affairs reporter Or Kashti describes how the Israeli education system manipulates Israeli
teenagers' feelings of fear to instill nationalist messages.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 11, 2013
Numbers of the day:
14.1% and 8.1%
-- The percentage of ultra-Orthodox and national religious youths who claimed former prime minister Yitzhak
Rabin was killed by an Arab.**
This is the ninth in a series of reviews of new books on Middle Eastern affairs. We asked Dr. Gail Weigl, an APN volunteer and a professor of art history, to review Sayed Kashua's novel on Jewish-Arab relations in Israel.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday October 10, 2013
Number of the day:
175.
--Number of pupils in lock-down in their school in the village of Jalud, while Israeli settlers
attacked.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 09, 2013
Quote of the day:
"My father didn't come to Haifa from the Budapest ghetto in order to get recognition from Abu Mazen
(Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas)."
--Yair Lapid tells Charlie Rose that Israel does not need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize
Israel as a Jewish state.**
Israel began establishing civilian communities in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and Sinai Peninsula after capturing these territories in the 1967 war. Israel withdrew from Sinai in 1982 as part of its obligations under the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace agreement. Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005. The issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and their continued expansion remains central to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Israeli daily, Ma'ariv, recently ran a story about construction in East Jerusalem, and told its readers, "These figures were given to us by Hagit Ofran, who heads the Settlement Watch program for Peace Now [Shalom Achshav]. Ofran carefully monitors each and every construction permit given to neighborhoods beyond the Green Line and documents them. She was the only one who could give us the precise numbers in an orderly Excel chart."
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday October 08, 2013
Quote of the day:
'Yosef was the only major rabbinic figure to make the courageous ruling that preserving lives was more
important than retaining territory...(But he) also represented a racist version of Judaism, claiming that non-Jews
were born only "to serve us. Otherwise, they have no place in this world."
--Haaretz Editorial describes how along with his virtues and achievements, Yosef will also be remembered as a man
who contributed a great deal to the polarization and division of Israeli society. **