News Nosh 8.13.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday, August 13, 2017

You Must Be Kidding: 
“Breaking: Conan O’Brien sends Conan O’Brien to Israel to help Jared Kushner. Stay tuned. #ConanIsrael #ConanWithoutBorders https://t.co/7ystp6aMqR”
— A social media message written by comedian Conan O'Brien to announce his trip to Israel.**
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News Nosh 8.11.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday August 11, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
“Only God knows how (Likud politician) Gideon Sa'ar manages to maintain his special status in the political center and among Tel-Aviv residents, despite his right-wing ideology and his continuous move towards religion and the rabbis, but it’s a fact.”
—Maariv political commentator Ben Caspit writes about the results of the Maariv poll, which showed that 38% of all Israelis support Gideon Saar as a replacement for Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister - more than anyone else. Moshe Kahlon came in second with 32%. Among right-wing voters, Habayit Hayehudi leader Naftali Bennett came in first, with 42% and Saar followed with 41%.
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News Nosh 8.10.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday August 10, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
“After so many years in power, it can be said that Netanyahu has changed [Israelis] as no one before him could. Israelis resemble him and behave like him. He taught them to be suspicious of the world and of their future, instilled in them a burning hatred of everything that symbolized Arabs and Arabism, shared with them the deep distaste for the region in which we live and for our neighbors and altered their identity from Israelis to Jews with almost no resistance.”
— Journalist and former politician, Daniel Ben Simon, examines Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s legacy. **
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News Nosh 8.9.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday August 9, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"If we take the international reputation of the club, of course it would sound weird for this club to get an anti-racism award. But the truth is, in the past year the fans have put in a lot of work and have sought to change."
--Sports newscaster Uri Levy said the infamously anti-Arab fan club of the Jerusalem soccer team Beitar Jerusalem had "significantly reduced" the number of racist chants after being slapped with a series of fines.**
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News Nosh 8.8.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday August 8, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"But I would like to focus here not on the details of the penal code, which the judicial system is handling, or is meant to handle; I would like to focus on behavioral norms: not what is forbidden or permitted, but what is proper or improper. The weaker the public norms are in Israel, the more public conduct is governed by legal hair-splitting. Note well that the High Court has not been strengthened; it has been weakened. The power of the law has not increased; it has been undermined. What has gotten stronger, more rooted and has spread like a weed is the foolish notion that anything that is not criminal is pure and innocent."
--Yoella Har-Shefi examines the deterioration of Israeli society in an Op-Ed in Haaretz+.
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Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

This week, Alpher discusses whether with Ari Harow, a former Netanyahu aide who will implicate him in corruption allegations, the clock is finally ticking on Netanyahu's premiership; Mahmoud Abbas's health and political future; where the Taylor Force act comes into play; and how Netanyahu and Abbas exiting office would affect the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the prospects for peace initiatives.

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News Nosh 8.7.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday August 7, 2017
 
Number of the day:
66.
--Percentage of Israelis who believe Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should resign if indicted, according to the latest poll.*
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Legislative Round-Up: August 4, 2017

Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived

  1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters
  2. Hearings
  3. On the Record
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News Nosh 8.4.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, August 4, 2017
 
You Must Be Kidding #1: 
Israel is forcing a Palestinian family to leave their home where they have lived 53 years in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. The home was registered as owned by a Jewish family before the '48 war and a settler organization battled in court in the Jewish owners' name to reclaim the property. However, Israel does not allow Palestinians to take back the properties in W. Jerusalem (and elsewhere) that Jews moved into after the '48 war.
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Latest PeaceCast: #21: Daoud Kuttab: Current Crisis - a View from Amman

Daoud Kuttab a veteran Palestinian journalist, now lives and works in Amman as the director-general of the Community Media Network a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing independent media in the Arab world. In a conversation with APN's Ori Nir and Debra Shushan, he lays out Jordan's perspective on the recent Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif crisis and the deteriorating relations between the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the State of Israel. 

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