News Nosh 3.4.18

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday March 4, 2018

You Must Be Kidding: 
"Had the force noticed the baby, needless to say they would have acted otherwise."
--The Israel Police response to the video showing Border Policeman throwing a tear gas grenade toward the backs of a Palestinian couple holding an infant and running from their home, which was hit by tear gas.**


Breaking News:
Two soldiers, a Border Policemen lightly wounded in  car- ramming in northern Israel
Arab-Israeli driver plows his vehicle into them in mixed Jewish-Arab city of Acre. IDF officer shoots driver, who is in critical condition. Conflicting reports of a terror attack and an angry driver who was issued a parking ticket. Police say it was a politically-motivated attack. (Israel Hayom, Haaretz, Maariv and Ynet) [NOTE: Ynet calls it a 'terror attack', Haaretz and Maariv no take police conclusion as correct, but rather simply report on it. - OH]
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Legislative Round-Up - March 2, 2018

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

  1. Bills & Resolutions
  2. Hearings
  3. On the Record
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News Nosh 3.2.18

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday March 2, 2018

You Must Be Kidding: 
Israeli soldiers beat Palestinian journalists with batons and arrested them, on their commanders’ orders, with the declared intention of disrupting their coverage of a weekly demonstration, Haaretz+ revealed.
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News Nosh 3.1.18

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday, March 1, 2018
 
Quote of the day:
“The Haredim have climbed very high up a tree, very much increasing the chance of elections."
-- Hadashot TV News quoting Israeli officials from Likud talking about the fight over legislation exempting ultra-Orthodox students from military service
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News Nosh 2.28.18

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
 
Quote of the day:
“If we manage to kill Nasrallah in the next war, I would see that as reaching a decisive victory.”
-- Maj. Gen. Yaakov Barak 
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In the Crosshairs: Israeli Civil Society Under Threat

Featuring Yehuda Shaul (Breaking the Silence) with discussant Rabbi Jill Jacobs (T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights)

Wednesday, March 7th | 12:30pm
Middle East Institute Ballroom, 1319 18th Street NW, Washington, D.C.

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News Nosh 2.27.18

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday February 27, 2018
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
IDF forces detained 15-year-old Mohammed Tamimi from his home, despite him being seriously wounded after a soldier shot him in the head in December and he is awaiting surgery next week to restore part of his skull.**
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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 the possible indictment - on at least three counts - that Prime Minister Netanyahu faces; what the allegations are about; what Netanyahu's options are; how to account for the public's lenient attitude; and if anyone in Israel will emerge from this looking good.

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News Nosh 2.26.18

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday, February 26, 2018


You Must Be Kidding: 
In addition to the $600,000 for hotel rooms while they await temporary residence, the 15 families who squatted on privately-owned Palestinian land will receive $7 million in 'personal compensation.'**

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