APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday January 29, 2016
Quote of the day:
“The search, identification and marking of alleged traitors is an old fascist characteristic, an ugly
and dangerous one.”
--Likud MK Benny Begin slammed the campaign 'outing' left-wing artists as traitors and called for Im Tirtzu’s funding sources to be exposed.**
--Likud MK Benny Begin slammed the campaign 'outing' left-wing artists as traitors and called for Im Tirtzu’s funding sources to be exposed.**
Front Page:
Haaretz
- (Education Minister) Bennett to invest in E. Jerusalem schools only if they adopt Israeli school system
- The race to the White House begins
- Former commander of Police anti-corruption Lahav Unit #433 to stand trial for fraud and breach of trust
- Millions could be infected this year with Zika virus
- Targets of decreasing their numbers: 13,000 animals and birds were shot dead this year, with government permission
- From space the connection between natural light and weight gain can be seen
- The play that was censored in 1951 because “it highlighted the bad” in the IDF
- Deep look at the High Court, model 2016
- Israelis and Palestinians celebrate co-existence in ‘Ana Lulu’ (bar)
- What did the first Chief Justice of Israel and the editors of Haaretz argue about?
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Close monitoring – Enormous US-British spying operation on Israel
- Taxi drivers furious: Bibi is selling us out to US tycoons
- Taxi test: Who arrived fastest – Gett Taxi, Raidar or Tahana?
- The dangerous fetus virus
- Cold sun
- Terror alert at EuroDisney
- “Foreign moles in culture” (On Im-Tirtzu and Culture Minister campaigns against left-wing art):
- Slippery slope // Nahum Barnea
- I swear // Meir Shalev (author)
- Don’t be afraid of them // Sami Michael (author)
- Money screen // Yoaz Hendel
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- White House: “Putin is corrupt”
- Bipolar disorder // Alon Ben-David
- The written truth – After he read the controversy-sparking civics textbook, (Maariv right-wing commentator) Kalman Libskind discovered that the letter by the language editor was no more than a manipulation: Number of quotes from non-Jewish religious sources was almost as much as from Jewish sources, the chapter on democracy is twice as long as the one on Judaism, and the chapter on how the country should be was quoted from an Arab MK
- Broad condemnation of (Im Tirtzu’s) “Moles in culture” campaign
- The past is already hear // Ben Caspit
- Police Commissioner Alsheikh on the failure in the manhunt after the terrorist from Dizengoff: The investigations are not yet over. We are not hiding anything
- Auschwitz corner of Kigali – Rwandan capital hosted Israeli representatives for Int’l Holocaust Day ceremony, that drew together two peoples who share a joint fate
- Guns and Quran at EuroDisney
- “Allenby 40” case to close
- Director of Tax Authority: We owe money to citizens, who don’t come to take it
- Living anew: Rehab journey of most severely wounded soldier in Operation Protective Edge
- Who is a Jew: Why Bernie Sanders, the Democratic candidate, runs from religion
- After 20 years: This is how the media missed the rise of Netanyahu
- NBA: What was really behind the firing of David Blatt
- Open account: Decade since Hamas’ entrance to the political field in Gaza
Israel Hayom
- Wall-to-wall condemnations: “’Im Tirtzu’ campaign went too far”
- Goal against ourselves in justified battle // Dror Eydar
- The street battalions must be reined in // Dan Margalit
- The Zika virus scare: “Millions will get infected”
- Terror scare at EuroDisney
- “Menachem suddenly said, ‘They stabbed me’”
- The Middle East alliance – summit in Cyprus with Cyprus President, Greek Prime Minister and Israeli Prime Minister
- The Cold War model 2016: White House against Putin: “He is corrupt”
- 15 years prison to Palestinian youths who caused death of little Adele Biton
- Based on hearing: former police commander Arbiv will stand trial in Rabbi Pinto (corruption) affair
- My Iran - Orly Noy is the only one in Israel that translate Persian literature
- Victory of the spirit – Natan Sharansky celebrates 30 years since release from Soviet prison
- What is Bauhaus, who is Apple CEO and where was Ron Arad kidnapped? Army Radio’s general knowledge exam was revealed
News Summary:
**Today’s top stories focused on the neo-fascist ‘Im Tirtzu’ campaign against left-wing and human rights supporting Israeli artists, which even right-wing politicians - including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu - said was too much. Yedioth also had a scoop about how a British and US spy program hacked into video feeds of Israeli drones and fighter jets Also in the news, the US ‘reminded’ Israel that West Bank products cannot be labeled ‘made in Israel’ and US President Barack Obama made a moving speech
at Holocaust commemoration event at the Israeli embassy in Washington, saying, “We are all Jews.”
**Today’s top stories focused on the neo-fascist ‘Im Tirtzu’ campaign against left-wing and human rights supporting Israeli artists, which even right-wing politicians - including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu - said was too much. Yedioth also had a scoop about how a British and US spy program hacked into video feeds of Israeli drones and fighter jets Also in the news, the US ‘reminded’ Israel that West Bank products cannot be labeled ‘made in Israel’ and US President Barack Obama made a moving speech
at Holocaust commemoration event at the Israeli embassy in Washington, saying, “We are all Jews.”
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.