News Nosh 12.04.15

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday December 4, 2015  
 
Number of the day:
43.
--Percentage of Israelis who believe the State is not doing enough to bring to justice the perpetrators of the arson attack that killed the Dawabsheh family in Duma.**
You Must Be Kidding: 
"It's the most anti-Semitic state in the world since the Third Reich."
--Father of one of the Jewish youth suspected of murdering the Dawabsheh family in the arson in Duma tells Yedioth.**


Front Page:
Haaretz
Yedioth Ahronoth
  • The arrested for Jewish terror [Photos of 3 youths with kippas and sidelocks, faces blurred]
  • Underground, 3rd generation // Nahum Barnea
  • The missing link/cell // Alex Fishman
  • One moderately wounded from stabbing in Jerusalem
  • The massacre in the US is apparently a (terror) attack
  • Testimonies: “We hid under the table scared to death”
  • Freezing weekend
  • Real hero – Amazing rehab diary of Raz Bibi, who was mortally injured in an attack and returned to the Border Police  
  • Your Excellency, the ambassador – Danny Danon in his first interview as ambassador to the UN
  • Return to Munich: the wound of the families of the murdered reopened this week
  • Personal project – (Singer) Eidan Reichel tells why he decided to go solo and about dealing with the comments against his (Austrian) wife
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
  • Arson of the house in Duma: “Far from indictments”
  • Valley of dispute // Ben Caspit on how the settler hilltop youth believe Zionism hasn’t completed its purpose and now a Jewish kingdom needs to be created here
  • Foreigners in their land // Karni Eldad on the settler hilltop youth’s faith to G-d and asks why no one tries to understand them
  • Police Commander Alsheikh began his term: “Our job is to serve the normative civilian”
  • The massacre in the US: Strengthening suspicion that it was a (terror) attack
  • State in freeze  - Cold
  • With new energy: ‘One Family’ organization helps terror victims rehabilitate their lives
  • I don’t believe the Palestinians and I live without dreams // Ivri Gilad opens his mouth
  • Foreign currency: Why do politicians rely on foreign donations?
  • The First Intifada: The officer who broke their bones broke
  • Before his death: The last story of Amir Gotfreund, who died this week
Israel Hayom
  • The massacre in the US: The murderer returned from Saudi Arabia as a radical Islamist
  • Released for publication: A number of Jews arrested on suspicion of murder in Duma
  • Proud of their father, the (new) police commissioner
  • The terrorist: An officer in the Palestinian intelligence service
  • Freezing weekend on the way

 
News Summary:
More details on the ‘Jewish terror’ suspects and their ideology, the suspicion that the massacre in California was perpetrated by a radical Islamist, three Israelis injured in two attacks yesterday, one attack believed to be perpetrated by an intelligence officer of the Palestinian security services, and the swearing-in of Israel’s 18th police chief were top stories in today’s Friday Hebrew newspapers.
 
Also of interest, President Reuven Rivlin said he believes that a confederation is the appropriate solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. (Also Maariv) And a new document will be distributed among Israeli embassies declaring that Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) are legal, Channel 2 News first reported. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely is behind the move, Maariv reported.
 
**The papers wrote at length about the Jewish youth arrested on suspicion of murdering the Dawabsheh family in Duma, as well as carrying out other attacks. Yedioth interviewed the father of one of the suspects, who compared Israel to the Third Reich, and gave an alibi for his son. Haaretz’s Chaim Levinson discussed how the suspects evaded the Shin Bet, even though they were already labeled as dangerous. Haaretz’s Amos Harel wrote that despite the arrests, the case if far from being solved and if the investigation fails, Palestinians “will see this as further proof that Israel does not value Palestinian lives, even when they're innocent terror victims.” Maariv’s Noam Amir wrote that sources in the security establishment believe that there won’t be indictments against the suspects because the “perpetrators of the crime are experts in hiding information.” And a poll found that 43% of the Israeli public think that the security establishment is not doing enough to bring the Dawabsheh family murderers to justice. (Maariv)
 
The papers also interviewed relatives of the Dawabsheh family, who only know about the arrests from the media because no official Israel source informed them, and shared their feelings. Ahmed, the five-year-old son who survived, but was severely wounded, is improving greatly and will soon go into rehabilitation. Prof. Raz Somech, the director of the pediatric department at Sheba Hospital, said, “This family has become part of the department and (Ahmed) is like a family member our ours here.”
 
 
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.