APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday April 15, 2016
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Must Be Kidding:
"This lack of information is one of the factors leading to this tragedy. It's likely that at least 50 percent of survivors are under the poverty line."
--Welfare Minister Haim Katz revealed that some NIS 400 million earmarked for Holocaust survivors never made it to the survivors.
"This lack of information is one of the factors leading to this tragedy. It's likely that at least 50 percent of survivors are under the poverty line."
--Welfare Minister Haim Katz revealed that some NIS 400 million earmarked for Holocaust survivors never made it to the survivors.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Netanyahu: Approval of construction won’t expand settlements; photos prove otherwise
- Discoveries about the relations of the Prime Minister with the suspect in the Sting of the Century
- Soldier who shot dead wounded terrorist in Hebron will be charged with manslaughter
- ‘Fact’ TV investigative show: Rehavam Zeevi serially attacked women and intimidated them using criminals
- The principal turned into an investigator: About half of schools are covered with cameras
- Without a laptop and only 20 minutes on the treadmill: Prison Service giving prisoner Ehud Olmert no breaks
- Prostitution in Iraq is thriving amidst the terror, militias and chaos. Special report from Baghdad //
- Expose: The testimonies of the female police officer against Police Brig. Gen. Roni Ritman
- The holiday of freedom (Passover) of eight Israeli authors who live abroad – special project
Yedioth Ahrontoh
- Tension with Gaza: Warning and calming
- The couple (that got married) on the Temple Mount speaks
- Not what you thought – Surprising exclusive interview with the Swedish Foreign Minister: “I’m not an anti-Semite”
- The shadow and the truth – The creators of the chilling documentary series about Tair Rada, reveal details about the murder and the investigation that you didn’t see
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)
- “We feel like something is happening, but we trust the IDF” – Residents in the communities around Gaza
- So that every leader knows // Ben Caspit writes that the investigative documentary shown last night on Israeli TV’s ‘Fact’ program, that revealed testimonies that deceased former minister Rehavam Zeevi raped women and killed POWs was one of the most chilling investigations show on TV in years and that it is highly important to the state of the Jews because every leader must know that whatever bad he did will eventually come to light, even after his death
- Bankers against (Finance Minister) Kahlon – Claim that the future of the projects of his flagship program, ‘a price for a resident,’ is in the fog
- In the crosshairs: Those traveling to Israel – The fugitive terrorist who was caught after the attack in Brussels revealed in his interrogation: “The plan was to blow up next to the security check spot for flights to Tel-Aviv”
- Father of the Shooting Soldier: The state is obsessive against him
- To save Islam: The courageous interview of the former Iraqi diplomat
Israel Hayom
- “Hamas is taking advantage of the quiet to restore its capabilities” – IDF assessment: “Hamas isn’t interested in another conflict, but could be pulled into one”
- Father of the Shooting Soldier: “They abandoned him” – Next week the Shooting Soldier from Hebron will be indicted on manslaughter
- Brig. Gen. Buchris slams: “They are blackening my reputation”
- “Holocaust survivors suffer because of the bureaucracy”
- Chief Rabbi David Lau: “There is no justification of exaggerated kashrut for products for Passover”
- The youth of today: What do they think, what do they want and what are they doing? The full poll
- Identity card of poverty - The songwriter Yossi Gimzo reached the brink of starvation and is having trouble finding work
- Who is profiting: BDS reveals: the organization ‘Who Profits’ – is a bank of information for the boycott
News Summary:
Hamas’ growing capabilities in Gaza and its lack of desire for war, the decision to charge the Shooting Soldier from Hebron with manslaughter, a TV investigative documentary that shared testimonies that deceased former minister Rehavam Zeevi (‘Gandi’) raped women and shot dead POWs,
and due to bureaucracy, and the revelation that some 400 million shekels were kept from Holocaust survivors made top stories in today’s Friday Hebrew newspapers.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu denied approving hundreds of new settlement housing units. Haaretz+ wrote that “apparently stems from the Palestinian UN bid to condemn settlement building” and MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) said the denial was admission that settlement construction harms Israel's security). Netanyahu said the building plans were renovations, but a Haaretz probe found that aerial photos proved otherwise.
In Palestinian-Israeli violence, an ax-wielding Palestinian was shot dead in attack on an Israeli soldier in the West Bank and police found three knives hidden in a coat during a search of two Palestinians, both about 12 years old, in the Old City of Jerusalem. In Ramallah, IDF forces raided a Palestinian currency exchange store, which set the building on fire when they used explosives to try to open the store’s safe. The forces claimed the business handles money for terrorists.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.