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Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher (March 23, 2020) - Israel in the Time of Corona, Part 2: Threat to Democracy and Rule of Law

by APN 03/23/20

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.

News Nosh 3.23.20

by APN 03/23/20

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday March 23, 2020

Quote of the day:

"The main problem with this sudden epidemic is that there is no one to hate, no one to take revenge on, and no obvious enemy to destroy."
--Israeli poet, Yehonatan Geffen, in an Op-Ed in Yedioth.*

You Must Be Kidding:
Some Israeli backpackers returning from Peru to Israel rioted at the airport when told they must sign a Health Ministry form committing to self-quarantine.**

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News Nosh 3.22.20

by APN 03/22/20

APN's daily news review from Israel

Sunday March 22, 2020

Quote of the day:

“The attempt to prevent the elected Knesset from overseeing what an unelected prime minister does is a coup attempt. And as long as the Knesset is not functioning, we live in a dictatorship.”
—Yuval Noah Harari in a chilling Op-Ed in today's Yedioth Ahronoth.*

You Must Be Kidding #1:
Netanyahu and three Likud ministers wanted to shut down the Knesset for corona-related reasons, but don't down synagogues even though a third of the corona infected cases were tracked back to synagogues. In the Jewish Diaspora synagogues were closed.**

You Must Be Kidding #2:
Israeli police went into a Palestinian neighborhood in E. Jerusalem to apprehend a young man suspected of performing sanitation work on behalf of the Palestinian Authority in E. Jerusalem, which police do not allow. And residents said that arrests are conducted without protective gear and police officers do not abide by the social-distancing orders.***

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PeaceCast: Settlement Activity in 2019 - with Brian Reeves of Peace Now

by APN 03/20/20

This episode features a new report by Israel’s Peace Now movement, reviewing Israel’s West Bank settlement activity in 2019. Presenting the report is Brian Reeves, Peace Now’s director of external relations. Brian is an American Israeli residing in Tel Aviv, and he is an expert on settlement activity.

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News Nosh 3.19.20

by APN 03/19/20

APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday March 19, 2020

Quote of the day:

"The corona will disappear in the end. But democracy never goes back to zero: what is going wrong these days, under the auspices of corona, will not be easily corrected. Corona must therefore be dealt with, as if there weren’t a terrorist attack against democracy in front of our eyes, and we must fight for democracy as if there were no corona."
--Yedioth's top political commentator, Nahum Barnea writes in an Op-Ed today, after the government employed numerous anti-democratic means to fight the corona virus.**

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Peace Now Settlement Construction Report for 2019

by APN 03/18/20

News Nosh 3.18.20

by APN 03/18/20

APN's daily news review from Israel

Wednesday March 18, 2020

Quote of the day:

"Dear world, how is the lockdown? --Gaza."
--One of the many sardonic political social media posts made by Gazans this week.*

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News Nosh 3.17.20

by APN 03/17/20

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday March 17, 2020

Quote of the day:

"Nothing brings people together in solidarity like a natural disaster, even when that disaster requires more social distancing than gathering together. Let the new plague be our shared enemy."
--Middle East experts, Seraj Assi and Zachary Foster, write in a beautiful essay about how Jews and Arabs united to fight a locust plague in Palestine in 1915.*

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News Nosh 3.17.20

by APN 03/17/20

APN's daily news review from Israel

Tuesday March 17, 2020

You Must Be Kidding:

“The time has come to clear my conscience. It feels that the end of the world is near."
--Fearing the end of the world, an Israeli man returned a 2,000-year-old catapult bolt to Israel Antiquities Authority press.*

Breaking News:
In Dead of Night, Israel Approves Harsher Coronavirus Tracking Methods Than Gov't Stated
Government approves regulations permitting collection of data without court order, circumventing Knesset in the process. (Haaretz+ and Israel Hayom)

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Legislative Round-up: March 13, 2020

by APN 03/16/20

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

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Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher (March 23, 2020) - Israel in the Time of Corona, Part 2: Threat to Democracy and Rule of Law

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