APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday September 20, 2015
Today's Headlines:
PM Netanyahu reiterated that Palestinians and the Muslim Brotherhood are to blame for incitement and causing the violence on the Temple Mount. At a security meeting today, the police will propose to alter the rules of engagement allowing them to use live fire.
Five Arab members of Knesset from the Joint List will travel to Jordon today and visit King Abdullah. These discussions will focus on tensions surrounding the Temple Mount and “the change in the status quo in the el-Aksa Mosque compound.”
In other news, an Arab-Israeli woman was arrested in Turkey on suspicion of trying to join ISIS.
Eran Malka, a former senior officer in a national corruption unit, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for corruption and is being allowed to keep his pension.
Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid party chair, today said that Israel should accept the Arab Peace Initiative as the basis for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and the greater Arab world. Lapid admitted the plan is not perfect but should serve as a basis for a framework.
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Quote of the day:
"Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement which will enable full
normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state
alongside the State of Israel."
-Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid at his address at Bar Ilan University today
-Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid at his address at Bar Ilan University today
Today's Headlines:
Haaretz
- Clashes in Jerusalem and in Territories—Rocket from Gaza lands in Sderot
- Abbas Must Talk Tough to Hide his Efforts for Calm
- Netanyahu to Courts: Punish Stone-throwers
- Lapid: Israel Must Accept Arab Peace Initiative
- Israel Considers Outsourcing its PR in the U.S.
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Weekend of Violence Escalation
- 8 Year Sentence for Top Cop
- Israel’s Beach Letter Problem
- Michael Chesin, 1936-2015, “The Poet of the World of Law”
Maariv
- Rocket in Sderot, Injured in Jerusalem
- Demise of a Model of Judicial Integrity
- My Brother Died While I was Holding His Hand
Israel Hayom
- Rules of Engagement Include Live Fire
- Known Sex Offender is Suspected in Raping Cellmate
- Netanyahu: We Will Hurt Anyone Who Tries to Hurt Us
News Summary:
Rioting in Jerusalem and rocket-fire from the Gaza Strip dominated weekend news coverage in the Israeli
press. At the start of the Jewish Sabbath, a Kassam rocket hit Sderot while another rocket meant to hit
Ashkelon was intercepted by the Iron Dome Defense System. Yedioth’s Yossi Yehoshua commented that it was
puzzling not to place an Iron Dome battery near Sderot. Ma’ariv’s Yossi Melman remarked Hamas’s control
over Gaza has weakened and that the rocket fire likely came from Salafist organizations, which are
multiplying in the Gaza Strip.PM Netanyahu reiterated that Palestinians and the Muslim Brotherhood are to blame for incitement and causing the violence on the Temple Mount. At a security meeting today, the police will propose to alter the rules of engagement allowing them to use live fire.
Five Arab members of Knesset from the Joint List will travel to Jordon today and visit King Abdullah. These discussions will focus on tensions surrounding the Temple Mount and “the change in the status quo in the el-Aksa Mosque compound.”
In other news, an Arab-Israeli woman was arrested in Turkey on suspicion of trying to join ISIS.
Eran Malka, a former senior officer in a national corruption unit, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for corruption and is being allowed to keep his pension.
Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid party chair, today said that Israel should accept the Arab Peace Initiative as the basis for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and the greater Arab world. Lapid admitted the plan is not perfect but should serve as a basis for a framework.