APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday July 10, 2015
You Must Be Kidding:
You Must Be Kidding:
“We don’t recognize the existence of a Jewish people. There is no such nation. This is not my
personal analysis. A religion cannot be a nation.”
--Recently revealed remarks by Palestinian Ambassador to Chile Imad Nabil Jadaa made at a conference two months ago, which just cost him his job.
--Recently revealed remarks by Palestinian Ambassador to Chile Imad Nabil Jadaa made at a conference two months ago, which just cost him his job.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Two Israelis disappeared in Gaza
- Inconceivable conduct // Amos Harel
- Representative of Prime Minister threatened Mengistu family that it won’t criticize Netanyahu
- The brother: If he were white, everything would be different
- The fateful round of talks with Iran: Kerry warns that the US is prepared to abandon the negotiations
- With forgiveness and fear – Deri’s flying performance, the close connection between Lapid and Ashkenazi and the Lieberman enigma // Yossi Verter
- The last days of (deceased police fraud squad chief) Bracha: Supplications for support and a covert investigation that raises questions
- Leaving the attic – At the pensioner’s theater, they don’t waste time on being politically correct
- Mina Tzemach, ahead of you – The first polling institute in Israel decoded public opinion before there was a telephone
- Democracy being tested – 10 years to disengagement (from Gaza) – Conference at the Israel Democracy Institute on July 13th
- The identity card of MK Aida Toma-Suliman
- The people, the connections and the moves behind Noble Energy Co.
- A new exhibition documents apartments where women were sexually attacked
- What does the surprising rise and fall of the Pig Law teach us
- Miriam Eshkol: The prime minister’s wife who refused to be an icon
Yedioth Ahronoth
- The invisible captive // Sima Kadmon on the government’s cover-up of the two Israeli citizens who went missing after they crossed into Gaza
- Representative of Prime Minister in infuriating discussion with parents of captive: “Decide whether you want to work together or to make shows and give (us) a hard time”
- Between family and state // Nahum Barnea
- Not Ethiopian, Israeli // Dani Adino Ababa
- For superstars he (Netanyahu) had time // Eitan Haber
- The frozen generation – What’s behind the jump in the number of Israeli women who freeze their eggs
- A year of missing them – Special: Families of the soldiers who died on the APC in Shujaiyeh in a painful meeting
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- Lost in Gaza – Released for publication, two young Israelis, crossed separately into Gaza months ago and are captive in hands of Hamas. Hamas says Mengisto is no longer in its hands
- Representative of the government threatened the family: “Decide – work together (with us) or give (us) a hard time”
- Humanitarian, not security // Ben Caspit
- The good intentions // Udi Segal
- What Hamas is hiding // Alon Ben-David
- Again, booing the minister – Miri Regev: I will re-define the priorities in culture
- Nuclear talks – Kerry: “Or difficult decisions, or we will end the talks”
- After two and a half months – High Court released Ronal Fisher to house arrest
- A review of the life of police brig. gen. Efraim Bracha (who committed suicide)
- Dozens of cars are stoned daily on roads in Judea and Samaria, but you don’t hear about it // Karni Eldad
- Give respect: Son of Moshe Sharett is battling for his name
- Making it to the end of the month: The salaries of the managers of the cultural institutes in Israel
- Battle legacy: Lt. Horesh, who entered the tunnel after Goldin, is revealed
- In the name of the brother: “He died, but he is a symbol of the protest and we won’t be silent”
Israel Hayom
- “We won’t release terrorists in exchange for two civilians” – How the sad affair of two Israelis who crossed the fence into the Gaza Strip – turned into a storm and accusations?
- There is no racism here, just a sad reality // Ayano Ferda Sanbato
- The joke of negotiations between Iran and the world powers is on us
- About the never-ending nuclear talks in Vienna // Boaz Bismuth
- Remembering also the lone soldiers – Hundreds answered calls on social networks to come to the memorial services of the lone-soldiers from abroad, who died in last summer’s war
- Netanyahu ordered – A round table with all the streams of Judaism
- Flying abroad? Drink coffee at home – the prices at Ben-Gurion Airport are still high
- In the name of the brother - Ben Vaanunu was killed in Gaza, his sister is joining the Golani Brigade in his footsteps
- The bad end to the good cop: On the tragic choice of police brig. gen. Bracha, the #1 investigator who made the hardest choice of all (committed suicide)
News Summary:
Today’s Friday Hebrew papers discussed the outrage over the government’s cover-up of the two Israelis who
disappeared into Gaza and the statements by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s representative to one of
the families not to criticize Netanyahu if they want state cooperation. Meanwhile, Iran talks will likely be extended again.
Netanyahu said he is doing everything possible to bring back the two Israelis, Avra Mengistu an Ethiopian-Israeli and the other a Bedouin, whose name was not released for ‘security reasons.’ Hamas said it released Mengistu and it won’t discuss releasing the two Israeli soldiers and the Bedouin their release until Israel releases the 70 prisoners rearrested last year after the abduction and murder of three Israeli teens in the West Bank. But Israeli security establishment sources said Israel won't exchange Palestinian prisoners for missing Israelis. The Mengistu family has accused the government of mishandling the affair because they are not white and urged Hamas to release him. Even Hamas didn’t miss the opportunity to take a jab at Israel on Twitter. The father of the young Bedouin man said no one in the government even told him they knew that his son was in Gaza.
Netanyahu said he is doing everything possible to bring back the two Israelis, Avra Mengistu an Ethiopian-Israeli and the other a Bedouin, whose name was not released for ‘security reasons.’ Hamas said it released Mengistu and it won’t discuss releasing the two Israeli soldiers and the Bedouin their release until Israel releases the 70 prisoners rearrested last year after the abduction and murder of three Israeli teens in the West Bank. But Israeli security establishment sources said Israel won't exchange Palestinian prisoners for missing Israelis. The Mengistu family has accused the government of mishandling the affair because they are not white and urged Hamas to release him. Even Hamas didn’t miss the opportunity to take a jab at Israel on Twitter. The father of the young Bedouin man said no one in the government even told him they knew that his son was in Gaza.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.