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 the Netanyahu government’s most immediate preoccupation regarding the outcome of the US presidential election; how it depends on who wins, Trump or Clinton; the possibility of Obama intending to launch a last-minute policy initiative; and the number of heavy controversies on the Netanyahu government’s near-term agenda: the High Court, the media, and religious pluralism .
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday November 7, 2016
Quote of the day:
"If his legal advice is ignored, and the law passes in one cunning way or another, every person whose
work involves the implementation of this law must disobey the orders he receives—whatever the cost the regime
exacts of him."
--Yedioth commentator Yaron London writes that the bill to legalize outposts built on privately-owned Palestinian land a blatantly illegal and must be defied.**
--Yedioth commentator Yaron London writes that the bill to legalize outposts built on privately-owned Palestinian land a blatantly illegal and must be defied.**
Ten thousand people came yesterday to Kikar Rabin in Tel Aviv to remember the former prime minister who was
assassinated as he worked for peace, moments after he sang "Shir LaShalom" (Song for peace), the lyrics of which
were found, blood-stained, in his pocket.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday November 6, 2016
Quote of the day:
“After 21 years, hatred rears its head, and incitement is here again. The hatred is the same hatred,
the incitement is the same incitement, and the leader is the same leader."
--Opposition leader and Zionist Camp chief, Isaac Herzog, said at the commemoration rally marking 21 years since the murder of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.*
--Opposition leader and Zionist Camp chief, Isaac Herzog, said at the commemoration rally marking 21 years since the murder of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.*
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday November 4, 2016
Quote of the day:
"You have placed a gun on the table."
--Chief Justice Miriam Naor struck back at Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked's attempt to curb the power of the High Court.**
--Chief Justice Miriam Naor struck back at Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked's attempt to curb the power of the High Court.**
APN is producing a series of ads that demonstrates that Israel’s top security community rejects the belligerent, hardline policies of Benjamin Netanyahu and his government.
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday November 3, 2016
Quote of the day:
“The disease destroys the patient. Israelis are sick with the disease of fear because of their history
and narrative. The Palestinians are sick with the disease of the occupation.
--In a conversation with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, a Palestinian doctor from Gaza, Dr. Izzeldin Abouelaish, compared fear of treatment of disease with Israeli fear of moving towards solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Dr. Abouelaish lost three of his daughters in the first Gaza war 2008-2009.**
--In a conversation with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, a Palestinian doctor from Gaza, Dr. Izzeldin Abouelaish, compared fear of treatment of disease with Israeli fear of moving towards solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Dr. Abouelaish lost three of his daughters in the first Gaza war 2008-2009.**
APN Weekly Update - Help with our ad campaign, Yitzhak Rabin (z'l), Alpher, and a surprising Quote of the Week
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday November 2, 2016
You Must Be
Kidding:
"It glorifies violence and desensitizes our children."
--Orthodox educator Shira Hecht-Knoller of the Drisha Institute for Jewish learning, on the video promoting a private modern Orthodox Jewish kids' sports camp in New York by showing children dressed as soldiers crawling through the mud to ambush the enemy and, at the end, an Israeli flag and a sign saying, 'Enlist Now.'**
"It glorifies violence and desensitizes our children."
--Orthodox educator Shira Hecht-Knoller of the Drisha Institute for Jewish learning, on the video promoting a private modern Orthodox Jewish kids' sports camp in New York by showing children dressed as soldiers crawling through the mud to ambush the enemy and, at the end, an Israeli flag and a sign saying, 'Enlist Now.'**