APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday July 17, 2015
 

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Haaretz

• Left, right, left – Reports on contacts for joining government spark deep debate about the future and character of the Zionist Camp
• Court in The Hague: Probe opening investigation into (Gaza flotilla) Marmara events
• Nuclear agreement, the day after:
  • Netanyahu deserves credit // Amos Harel
  • After Iran, (chief of staff) Eisenkot plans targeted operations
  • Rouhani and the Revolutionary Guards fighting over the loot // Zvi Bar’el
  • AIPAC joins the lost battle // Chemi Shalev
• 250 veteran combat fighters suing the police: It demands we fight in our advanced age, we are collapsing
• Senior Hamas official, Abu Marzuk, in puzzling message: Menginstu was caught during Operation Protective Edge
• Arab Israelis buying apartments for investment in (new Palestinian city) Rawabi, and the Palestinians fear a ghost town
• Beitar Jerusalem soccer fans rioted in Belgium, injured a player and caused the game to be stopped
• Haaretz journalists Amos Harel and Gidi Weitz – recipients of Sokolov Prize for written journalism
• The underground satire newspaper of the IDF top brass

• The race to Iran for the billions begins:
  • He hates presents // Nahum Barnea writes that Netanyahu thwarted every attempt by security establishment heads to discuss with the US administration the compensation package for Israel
  • Big money for terror // Alex Fishman writes that Iran will immediately get access to $150 billion  that was frozen in banks abroad
  • Expensive spin // Yossi Yehoshua writes that Netanyahu’s veiled threats that “Israel will know how to defend itself and all options are open” were heard clearly in the IDF Chief of Staff’s office
  • Vienna is not Munich // Yoaz Hendel writes that the agreement with Iran is a blow to Middle East stability, but not to its existence
• Unity? Herzog submitted a no-confidence in the government motion
• Court in The Hague: Re-open the Marmara case
• Israeli disgrace in Belgium – Beitar Jerusalem soccer fans threw smoke grenade on field and injured the Belgian goalie in the head
• This is the rabbi suspected of rape: Name of Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg was released for publication
• Waiting for Hadar (Goldin, whose body is held by Hamas)
• Super Jill – Jill Rosenberg went to fight ISIS and returned alive to tell the story

• Nuclear headache – Signing of the historic nuclear agreement put the Israeli political and security leadership into a frenzy:
  • Deadly mission // Ben Caspit
  • Good to have a close friend // Alon Ben-David
  • It’s the economy, idiot // Avi Benayahu
  • Faith and credibility // Udi Segal
• Poll: 47% of Israelis in favor of attack on Iran
• Court in The Hague considering investigating Marmara incident
• The names of children born during engagement
• Shame in Europe – Beitar Jerusalem defeated -5 in Belgium. Fans rioted
• Tragedy in the skies: She parachuted to her death in front of her brother
• Open letter to Ismail Haniyeh // Natan Zahavi
• His revolution: Writer of biography of Menachem Begin finds a new leader
• What are they doing: Five GOC Central Command commanders speak about terror of stones in Judea and Samaria
• 20 years to death of IDF chief of staff Gur, new discoveries

• Zarif: “Our luck was that we held negotiations with Obama and Kerry”
• The disgrace of Beitar Jerusalem in Belgium
• Gross family suing for millions (after two children poisoned to death from pesticide)
• Bar Kapra family furious: “Our father was murdered in a terror attack, not a criminal incident”
• Anger in Israel: “Our soldiers acted out of self-defense” – Harsh responses to The Hague Criminal Court’s call to re-open investigation on take-over of Marmara on suspicion of war crimes
• Tragedy in Czech Republic: Meital Ben-Naim, 30, killed in parachuting accident
• Released for publication: the ‘Rabbi from the north” suspected of sex crimes: Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg
• Gabi Melul, the nurse who performed surgical procedures, speaks
• Tal Neuman returns to the diary she wrote in the days of disengagement
• Hila Alpert set out on a culinary journey following the new Arab cuisine
• The heavy price for Obama’s agreement with Iran – Israel will pay // Yaakov Amidror, Dror Eydar, Avraham Ben-Tzvi, Shlomo Cesana

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News Summary:
The latest analysis on the Iran nuclear deal, the call by the International Criminal Court at The Hague to reopen the investigation into possible Israeli war crimes in the Marmara flotilla incident, and the shameful rioting in Belgium by the infamous Beitar Jerusalem soccer fans were top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.

**Also in the news, Hamas said Israel lied to the public about the missing Ethiopian-Israeli: Abra Mengistu crossed during Operation Protective Edge, not after. Israel police said the Palestinians who killed an Israeli farmer were thieves, not terrorists, the Zionist Camp filed a no-confidence motion despite rumors that it may form a unity government with the coalition, a Jerusalem Post/Maariv poll found that 78% of Jewish Israelis say the Iran deal endangers Israel, but the Tel-Aviv stock market rose this week despite the expectations that the nuclear agreement would cause the crash of the stock indices, Yedioth reported. Also according to the poll, 51% said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should use all possible tools to persuade Congress to vote against the nuclear deal. And the Israeli Air Force struck infrastructure in Gaza early yesterday morning after a rocket hit an open area causing no damage or injuries.
 

 

Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.