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. **
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday October 07, 2013
Quote of the day:
"When I was 20-years-old, I realized that my first reaction to hearing Arabic on the streets was fear. I wanted it
to be different for my son - that Arabic also be a language of joy, fun and coexistence."
--Adva Shay explains why she decided to send her son to a Jewish-Arab bilingual preschool.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday October 06, 2013
Quote of the day:
"In the next version, we will be happy to give you credit for your research study. We believe scientists are envoys
of peace and scientists' way of thinking is different from politicians."
--From email Iranian physicists wrote to Israeli physicists over mistakenly not giving the Israeli
scientists credit.**
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 04, 2013
Quote of the day:
"I don't know what the goal of this government is. Does it want to keep all of the land in our hands, like
most of the coalition wants? Does it want to go towards a two-state solution?"
--In an interview with Maariv, former deputy prime minister and Likud MK Dan Meridor expresses doubt in the present
government's intentions to reach a peace agreement.**
This week at J Street, APN hosted the panel: Settlements--Not Too Late, moderated by APN's President and CEO, Debra DeLee. Panelists included APN's Lara Friedman, the Director of Policy and Government Relations, and Peace Now's Secretary General, Yariv Oppenheimer, as well as Dan Rothem, Senior Research Consultant of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace and Daniel Seidemann, Founder and Director of Terrestrial Jerusalem.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday October 03, 2013
Quote of the day:
"The history of detentions of the battling for the freedom of their people, in all countries, including our parents
who fought for our freedom, teaches that there is no better school for terror than prison."
--Ze'ev Tzachor argues that it's time to have a public debate about the Shin Bet's system of
detaining and imprisoning Palestinians.**