APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday February 5, 2016
Quote of the day:
"He butchered my son and he'll be released in ten years."
--Suha Abu Khdeir, mother of 16-year-old Mohammed, shouted out in the Jerusalem District Courtroom when the judges announced that one of the three who murdered her son did not get a life sentence.**
--Suha Abu Khdeir, mother of 16-year-old Mohammed, shouted out in the Jerusalem District Courtroom when the judges announced that one of the three who murdered her son did not get a life sentence.**
Front Page:
Haaretz
- In the (Gaza) time tunnel – IDF returns to West Bank cities, Israel and Hamas exchange threats and the deteriorating living conditions in Gaza do not impress Netanyahu and Yaalon. In the shadow of the security incidents…the State Comptroller publishes a draft of the report on the dealing with the tunnels and sees it as a wake-up call // Amos Harel
- 13-year-olds from Ramle stabbed and lightly injured a security guard
- Long prison sentences for the minors convicted in the murder of the youth Abu Khdeir
- MKs from Balad met with relatives of the terrorists
- High Court suspended the administrative detention of the hunger-striking Palestinian due to his health condition
- Government advancing confiscation of money from suspects of terror; Jurists: That is unconstitutional
- Rebels in the Education Ministry: Ultra-Orthodox institutions refuse to accept female pupils, in violation of guidelines
- Israel censor demands that bloggers and Facebook page administrators approve content in advance
- The fathers who refuse to return to work immediately after the birth
- Why women, especially young ones, are again abandoning Clinton – and prefer Sanders // Chemi Shalev
- Fellowships for students and Shabbat meals: Chabad is expanding its activities in the academia
- Is it possible the terraces of Jerusalem aren’t ancient and were actually built by Arab farmers?
- How those inciting on the Facebook of Liran Cohen turned into a best seller
- ¼ page ad: It is possible to destroy the tunnels and wait for them to be rebuilt and it is possible to initiate a real solution – The Council for the Future of the Negev and Darkenu.org.il
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Hug for the terrorists - They have no limits: (Arab) MKs Zouebi, Zahalka and Ghattas from Balad party met with families of the terrorists who murdered Israelis in the last terror wave
- “My Hadary, I salute you” – Says father of Border Policewoman who charged a terrorist and turned into a symbol of courage and sacrifice
- The tunnels failure – State Comptroller report points to severe defects in preparations for underground threat on the eve of Operation Protective Edge; Netanyahu and cabinet focus of criticism
- No one to talk to – No answer on IDF’s hotline for recruits
- The secret city: Enormous Russian military base located in the heart of Syria
- “They used me” – Yochi Brandes leaves ‘Im Tirtzu’ angrily and explains why
- Harassing story: Ivgi affair, how the popular actor got in trouble, what do his colleagues say and how will it end?
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- 13-year-olds with a knife and kids’ food in their backpacks
- Ticking time bombs // Ben Caspit
- Science of the spirit (of terror) // Udi Segal
- Father’s salute – to his daughter, who was murdered in attack at Damascus Gate
- Storm of the Arab MKs: Members of the Joint List met with family members of (Palestinian) attackers; Lieberman: “Kick those terrorists out of the Knesset”
- New initiative: “Save the capital” – Haim Ramon leading plan to build fence in Jerusalem to disconnect the Arab villages that were annexed in ‘67
- Police: We won’t probe (actor Moshe) Ivgi, unless someone files a complaint
- Fire Zones: New series of articles about IDF in hot areas
- Short circuit in the media: This is how the journalism in the US if failing in the elections // Ron Miburg
- Lion’s roar: Gossip columnist ‘Liora’ went out to see if ‘The Shadow’ really is an angry person
Israel Hayom
- The Chutzpah of the Arab MKs – wall-to-wall condemnations in the political establishment
- “Hadar, I am proud of you, I salute you” - says father of Border Policewoman who was murdered in attack at Damascus Gate
- Terrorists with school backpacks: Two 13-year-old girls pulled out a knife and injured a guard
- Anger in Likud: Timing of State Comptroller’s report – populism
- Real estate craze: 16-year-record high in number of new apartments sold
- Parents to soldiers with allergies fear: IDF does not know how to deal with the phenomenon
- Female heroes in green: The female fighters of the Border Police courageously withstand the dangerous missions // Itsik Saban
News Summary:
**The Israeli papers, particularly Yedioth and Israel Hayom, focused on the pain of the parents of the Border Policewoman who was killed by three Palestinians of almost the same age and expressed outrage, as did right-wing MKs, over the meeting between Arab MKs and parents of Palestinian youth who killed Israelis, the parents shared their pain and asked for help to get Israel to return their children’s bodies. Also high in the news, a knife attack Thursday by two 13-year-old Arab Israeli girls on a Jewish security guard and the sentencing of the two Jewish minors, who were ‘almost 17’ when they kidnapped and burned alive 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir: one to life in prison and the other to 21 years, to which Abu Khdeir’s family was outraged at the inequality of sentencing of Arabs and Jews. And, the State Comptroller’s ‘wakeup call’ report on ‘gaps and failures’ in Israel's preparedness for Gaza tunnels threats, which points a finger at Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his cabinet, were among the top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
Also in the news, And, Haaretz+ solved the mystery of which kibbutz US Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders volunteered on: Ofer Aderet wrote: “…on Thursday an article was found in the Haaretz archive from 1990, written by former intelligence correspondent and analyst Yossi Melman. Sanders, who is vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, told Melman that in 1963 he spent a number of months in Kibbutz Sha'ar Ha'amakim, in northern Israel, as a guest of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement.”
**The Israeli papers, particularly Yedioth and Israel Hayom, focused on the pain of the parents of the Border Policewoman who was killed by three Palestinians of almost the same age and expressed outrage, as did right-wing MKs, over the meeting between Arab MKs and parents of Palestinian youth who killed Israelis, the parents shared their pain and asked for help to get Israel to return their children’s bodies. Also high in the news, a knife attack Thursday by two 13-year-old Arab Israeli girls on a Jewish security guard and the sentencing of the two Jewish minors, who were ‘almost 17’ when they kidnapped and burned alive 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir: one to life in prison and the other to 21 years, to which Abu Khdeir’s family was outraged at the inequality of sentencing of Arabs and Jews. And, the State Comptroller’s ‘wakeup call’ report on ‘gaps and failures’ in Israel's preparedness for Gaza tunnels threats, which points a finger at Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his cabinet, were among the top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
Also in the news, And, Haaretz+ solved the mystery of which kibbutz US Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders volunteered on: Ofer Aderet wrote: “…on Thursday an article was found in the Haaretz archive from 1990, written by former intelligence correspondent and analyst Yossi Melman. Sanders, who is vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, told Melman that in 1963 he spent a number of months in Kibbutz Sha'ar Ha'amakim, in northern Israel, as a guest of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement.”
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.