APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday November 20, 2015 
 

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Front Page:

Haaretz

• Deadliest day in wave of terror: 5 killed in two attacks in Tel-Aviv and Gush Etzion
• The terror dresses and undresses its shape // Amos Harel
• Jonathan Pollard expected to be released today from jail in US after 30 years prison
• The spy who came from the street and put Israel and himself in the trash can // Amir Oren
• The daycare for infants: Double the price in Europe and double the amount of babies than what is permitted
• “The defendants’ dock looks like a cabinet meeting of the Reich, without Hitler.” 70 years since the Nurenberg trials
• This is not how a country at war looks like // Anshel Pfeffer
• The battle really has become global // Amos Harel
• Putin changes direction towards Daesh // Zvi Bar’el
• In the US, returning to the dilemma of WWII // Chemi Shalev
• “In the end, the jihadists will lose” // Sefi Hendler
• Belgium in the defendants’ dock // Shlomo Papirblat
• Immigrants from France having difficulty integrating // Lee Yaron
• Energy drugs of terrorists // Yaniv Kobovitz
• Michel Wolbeck: President Hollande is responsible

• Day of blood – 5 victims in 3 hours
• Dangerous precedent // Yossi Yehoshua 
• Taking off the gloves // Hanoch Daum
• Chutzpah: Palestinians accuse IDF of killing the Hebron resident who was murdered
• Heavy price: 24 killed in attacks since the wave of terror began
• Finally free (Jonathan Pollard)
• The religious are at the top – Ranking of the pre-military high schools
• In the war, as in war – Report from bleeding Paris // Nahum Barnea
• Strike to the heart – Dana Spector returned from 36 hours in a closed facility for beaten women.
• Voice of grief – Instead of getting married, Sarah-Tehiya Litman mourned for her father and brother who were murdered in an attack

• Murder campaign
• Heart of darkness // Ben Caspit writes that it is yet impossible to define the wave of violence
• Turning out the lights – The unemployment, discrimination and despair that rule Paris suburbs, and the religious radicalization is almost inevitable // Eyal Levy in Paris
• And now, the fear of biological terror
• Global warming // Yossi Melman
• The new Europe // Lior Ackerman
• The big shock // Ran Adelist
• After 30 years: Jonathan Pollard goes free
• We better get used to it // Udi Segal writes that Pollard’s release is a symbol of Israel’s failure, by all involved in the spy affair, and of the destructive capacity of the use of power to swirl out of control
• Despite the mourning: Sarah-Tehiya Litman and Ariel Biegel are on the way to getting married
• Peace Now: De Klerk believes that it is possible to end the conflict

• Day of terror: Five murdered in two attacks
• The illusion of tense quiet shattered // Yoav Limor 
• Always try to eliminate [murder – OH] the terrorist // Dan Margalit 
• The inspiration – from Daesh in Paris // Haim Shine
• After 30 years: Pollard goes free today
• Hopefully he will fulfill the dream of immigrating to Israel // MK Michael Oren
• The ‘brain’ was eliminated – Abdalhami Abaaoud was killed in raid in St. Denis
• Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee approved change to draft law
• City of Modi’in – Highest percentage of men joining combat units in IDF
• Heart breaks – Noah Litman returns to moments in which her husband and son were murdered
• Crying game – Avi Nussbaum was at the stadium in Paris when the terrorists blew up
• The attacks in Paris made Europe finally understand // Boaz Bismuth, Yoav Limor, Nadav Shragai

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News Summary:
Five people were killed in two separate attacks by Palestinian men Thursday and Jonathan Pollard, an American citizen who spied for Israel, goes free today making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.

Israeli analysts wrote that it was impossible to define the wave of Palestinian violence, which “keeps changing its shape,” starting in E. Jerusalem, then moving to central Israel, then to the West Bank, then centering in Hebron and now going in different directions. On Thursday, a Palestinian assailant stabbed three men in the Panorama building in Tel-Aviv, killing two, before he was stopped by people in the building. (Maariv) Less than three hours later, a Palestinian man opened fire on people at a West Bank junction in Gush Etzion while driving his car. Three people were killed: one Israeli, one visiting US yeshiva student and a young Palestinian from Hebron on his way home. Then the attacker lost control of his car and hit another car.
 
Haaretz reported that Shadi Arafa, the Palestinian killed on his way home, was at first thought to be an assailant as well. Maan reported that initial reports said the suspect was killed at the scene, with later reports confirming two suspects were arrested by Israeli forces. Yedioth wrote that the Palestinian Health Ministry stated that Israelis had killed Shadi Arafa.
 
Unlike in stabbing incidents where Israeli security forces and guards were either involved or arrived at the scene, in both of these attacks, Israelis at the scene were able to overpower and hold the assailants without killing them. Yariv Lusky was in the traffic jam when the shooter crashed into the car behind him. Lusky got out, approached the assailant and “pushed his gun away and threw him on the ground. I didn’t shoot at him because I wasn’t sure that he was the terrorist, but then I saw the gun next to him and understood that he was,” said Lusky. 'Tangiz,' a worker at the Panorama building in Tel-Aviv described that attack to Haaretz (this was not translated in the English edition): "The terrorist entered a little hunched over. He looked like a zombie with his hand behind his back. Suddenly he pulled out a long knife and stabbed our friend. I managed to push him off with a kick, after which they gave him a few kicks in the face. My friend took off his belt and tied him up."
 
Meanwhile, Israeli forces raided the home of the Tel Aviv attacker, Raed Masalma, a father of five from Dura, and issued his wife a house demolition order. The newspapers discussed the fact that Masalma had a month before received a permit to work in Israel and that this was the first time in a decade that someone who received a work permit committed an attack on Israelis.

Other deaths due to violence: a Palestinian shot last week during clashes with Israeli forces died from his injuries. Mahmoud Said Ulayyan, 20, a nursing student from Anata, was shot in the head during a demonstration to mark the anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat, Maan reported.

Ahead of spy Jonathan Pollard’s release today from a US prison, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reportedly told Israeli officials to keep a low profile on the subject, Haaretz and Maariv reported. Netanyahu had asked US President Barack Obama to allow Pollard to immigrate immediately to Israel. But that request appears to be rejected: Pollard won't be able to leave his area of residence in the US without permission for five years, Haaretz reported.

Also in the news, Arab municipalities went on strike, closing schools, to protest Israel’s ban of the Islamic Movement.
 
 

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