APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday November 3, 2020 

You Must Be Kidding: 
״Instead of dealing with the importance of this day and how to prevent further political assassinations - most of the lesson plans in general deal with comparing the subject to the corona epidemic. With all due respect, there is a very significant difference between the two subjects.״
--A teacher from central Israel objected to the decision of the Education Ministry to teach school children about the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by comparing it to the corona epidemic.**

APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday November 2, 2020

Quote of the day:

“Police investigate every case of violence regardless of the identity of the perpetrator.”
--Israel Acting Commissioner of Police Moti Cohen insisted that the police do not discriminate between Arab and Jewish citizens in murder investigations. A day earlier, a report revealed that police have solved only 22% of the murder cases in Arab-Israeli communities this year as opposed to 53% of the murders in Jewish communities.*

Recording of the APN Webinar from Friday, November 6, with APN President and CEO Hadar Susskind and two expert voices:

Mira Resnick, Senior Professional Staff Member for the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and 

Ilan Goldenberg, Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security

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Tuesday's election will have tremendous impact on our country and our world. This of course includes our work striving for peace for Israel and Palestine. Who sits in the White House, and the team of people who work for that person, will define the framework in which our work is done. In addition to that, which parties control the House and the Senate, and which elected officials serve as leaders, committee chairs and champions, will be critically important.

APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday, November 1, 2020

Quote of the day:

"It seems that even 25 years after the assassination, nothing seems to have changed. Incitement is the same incitement and the one who incited is the same one who incites."
--Peace Now tells Maariv after supporters of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vandalized a Peace Now stand ahead of the Saturday night protest march organized by the movement to mark the 25th anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination.*

1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters
2. Hearings & Markups
3. On the Record

Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday October 29, 2020

Quote of the day::""The country is split like the Red Sea between two camps, and the hatred is simmering underfoot."
--President Reuven Rivlin said in a speech today at a memorial event for former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin on the 25th anniver:"sary of his assassination.*

Numbers of the day:
62:38
--Percentage of left-wing Israelis vs. right-wing Israelis who fear that another political assassination will take place in Israel.**

APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday October 28, 2020

Quotes of the day:

"You made our country bigger."
--'Israel Hayom' quotes 12-year-old Rachel, who wrote in 1967 to then IDF chief of staff, Yitzhak Rabin, after the conquering of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.*

"Schoolchildren returning from ceremonies in memory of Rabin say that by no means should a prime minister be assassinated - but in the same breath they point out that parts of the homeland must also not be returned.”
--Uzi Baram writes in Haaretz+ that Yitzhak Rabin's legacy of giving up land to make peace with the Palestinians is not in the consensus.**

APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday October 27, 2020

Quote of the day:

"That America heaps love on Trump, among other reasons because he says out loud what people are thinking in the age of political correctness. He gives them a voice, representation, legitimacy, at a time when most media outlets cast them as racist, stupid, shallow rabble. When you meet them, you discover that they aren't exactly the dubious marginalized characters that they appear as in magazine articles about lawless militias or white supremacists thugs – they are Americas, working people, producers, entrepreneurs, members of the community, who love their country and think differently than the Democrats do. That is all they are guilty of."
--'Israel Hayom's' Editor-in-Chief, Boaz Bismuth, writes from the US about supporters for US President Donald Trump.*

The progressive Hatikvah list to the World Zionist Organization (WZO), of which Americans for Peace now is a member organization, scored an important achievement last week at the 35th Zionist Congress.

The gathering was held virtually between October 20th and October 22nd with some 500 delegates from 14 countries in attendance.

Actor also links his ‘Princess Bride’ character to Yitzhak Rabin...

“You know, I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it’s over, I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life.” When you take a man like [former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin, who held every imaginable position from soldier to statesman and turned from soldier and warrior into a peacemaker, that is the greatest transformation a human being can come to. I certainly hope that no one has to be a warrior in this world.

[Patinkin this week emceed a memorial held by Americans for Peace Now, an organization that the actor has been involved with for decades, marking the 25th anniversary of Rabin’s assassination by a Jewish extremist.]

Read the entire interview HERE