News Nosh 05.26.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday May 26, 2016
 
Quotes of the day:
"I would be happy to show Mayasem that there are different people, people who seek peace.” 
“Mayasem, good luck with your studies.”
“Thank you for the opportunity to support Mayasem.”
“I am so ashamed, hope we will be able to fix this.”

--Hundreds of mostly Jewish Israelis posted on a crowdfunding website after donating money to Maysam Abu Al-Kian, the 19-year-old Arab-Israeli supermarket employee who was brutally beaten by undercover Border Police in Tel-Aviv this week.

You Must Be Kidding: 
"I don't shop at a supermarket whose employees beat cops...This piece of trash needs to sit in prison."
--Chief Inspector Sharon Yamincha, the head of Israel Police's new media department, wrote on his personal Facebook account with an image of the supermarket where employee Maysam Abu Al-Kian was brutally beaten by Border Police.
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Briefing call on the political development in Israel with Akiva Eldar

akiva_eldar186x139On May 25, APN hosted a briefing call on the political development in Israel, following Prime Minister Netanyahu’s signing a new coalition agreement with right-wing firebrand Avigdor Lieberman, appointing Lieberman to the position of Minister of Defense. Eldar, a senior columnist with al-Monitor, spoke about the implications for Israel, its security, and its relations with the Palestinians and the world.

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News Nosh 05.25.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday May 25, 2016
 
Note: APN will hold a briefing call today with Akiva Eldar, senior political columnist with Al-Monitor’s Israel Pulse and formerly with Haaretz. Eldar will discuss the recent developments in the Israeli political arena and the increasing tension in Israel between the government and the security establishment.
Time: Wednesday, May 25th, 2:00 pm Eastern Time
Dial-in Number: 951-797-1058
Participant Access Code: 147414

Quote of the day:
"Even before the game was over, the coach of Bnei Sakhnin took the (sobbing) coach of Be'er Sheva into his arms, and congratulated him. The players on both sides embraced each other. Both teams, and both cities, belong to a better world, a better land, than we've come, sadly, to expect."
--Haaretz+ columnist Bradley Burston writes about the end of a soccer game this week where the losing Arab team hugged the players of the winning team of Jews, Muslims and Christians.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Hebron settlers steal wooden furniture from Palestinian home in Hebron for Lag BaOmer bonfire.**
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News Nosh 05.24.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday May 24, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"The problem is far worse. The ill spirit of racism communicated by the ministers and members of the leadership is being translated into an intolerable reality of violence."
--MK Dov Khenin of the Joint List called on Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan to "get answers for what appears, ostensibly, to be a lynching, in broad daylight -- an assault on an innocent civilian in broad daylight (by security forces) just because he is Arab."

You Must Be Kidding: 
"The State Prosecutor’s Office also insisted to be the one to represent the state at the High Court, meaning its people, whose views in opposition to (publishing) the report are clear, will represent both sides of the appeal."
--Yedioth's Ronen Bergman writes about the ombudsman report on the relations between the National Forensic Institute and the State Prosecutor's Office, which state prosecutors are trying to prevent from being published.  A source who read it said it is a virtual 'earthquake.'
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May 23, 2016 - The Herzog-Yaalon-Lieberman-Sisi-Bibi drama; the real Netanyahu at work

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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 what happened last week, with Israel beginning last week with a Likud-Labor unity government, blessed by the president of Egypt, and ended with an even more right-wing government and the departure of a defense minister who stood up for IDF commanders with liberal values; the fallout; and where this leaves civil-military relations in Israel.

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News Nosh 05.23.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday May 23, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"And on this issue, it won’t be possible to rely on the American precedent, because capital punishment in America isn’t applied selectively to a certain population group."
--From today's Haaretz Editorial on the easing of the law for executing only Palestinian terrorists - but not Jewish ones.

You Must Be Kidding: 
Classified documents, likely revealing methods to solicit information, were accidentally passed into the hands of the attorneys of seven Jewish individuals indicted for terror activities last month.
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News Nosh 05.22.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday May 22, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
“After this week, I’m not sure I want my children to remain here.”
--Patriotic veteran Channel 2 News military correspondent, Roni Daniel, shocks the country on live TV.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
In one of numerous examples of refusal by Israel's National Archives, researcher activists say they tried to access files compiled by a committee examining the 1990 riots on the Temple Mount, but the archives allegedly refused to provide the documents, giving no reason, even though 25 years had passed since the incidents. **
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Akiva Eldar APN hosted a briefing call on Wednesday, May 25th, at 2:00 pm Eastern Time with Akiva Eldar, senior political columnist with Al-Monitor’s Israel Pulse and formerly with Haaretz.

Akiva discussed the recent developments in the Israeli political arena: Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition negotiations with Avigdor Lieberman and before that with Labor’s Yitzhak Herzog; Moshe Yaalon’s resignation from the government and the Knesset, and the increasing tension in Israel between the government and the security establishment.

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News Nosh 05.20.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday May 20, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"We need to steer the country in accordance with one's conscience and not whichever way the wind is blowing."
--Outgoing Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said on the day after his job was given to MK Avigdor Lieberman and a day before he resigned from politics - today.**
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News Nosh 05.19.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday May 19, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
“At this rate, Elor Azariya will be appointed Deputy Defense Minister.”
--In a reference to the IDF soldier on trial for shooting in the head and killing an already shot and neutralized Palestinian assailant who was laying on the ground, Zionist Camp MK Erel Margalit reacts to the announcement that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu offered far right-wing MK Avigdor Lieberman to be Defense Minister if he joins the government.**
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