APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday May 06, 2016
You Must Be
Kidding:
The day after IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Yair Golan said he was frightened to recognize that "the revolting processes that occurred in Europe in general, and particularly in Germany, back then – 70, 80 and 90 years ago – and finding signs of them here among us today in 2016," the IDF Spokesman released a statement that General Golan "did not intend to compare the IDF and Israel to what happened in Germany 70 years ago. Such a comparison would be absurd and baseless."**
The day after IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Yair Golan said he was frightened to recognize that "the revolting processes that occurred in Europe in general, and particularly in Germany, back then – 70, 80 and 90 years ago – and finding signs of them here among us today in 2016," the IDF Spokesman released a statement that General Golan "did not intend to compare the IDF and Israel to what happened in Germany 70 years ago. Such a comparison would be absurd and baseless."**
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Netanyahu’s associates accuse State Comptroller of politicking
- Storm over the statements of the Deputy Chief of Staff: “Yaalon gave his support, Netanyahu demanded clarification”
- Police suspect: Shooting of two (Palestinian) siblings at Qalandiya checkpoint made against rules (for opening fire)
- Tension in Gaza: IDF exposed another tunnel in Israeli territory, detained Hamas activist gave extensive information about the tunnel system
- National Lottery profits jumped, the investment in the community dropped
- What bothered Netanyahu in his meeting with the women’s lobby // Yossi Verter
- Trump has no chance of beating Clinton. Supposedly // Chemi Shalev
- Prime Minister resigned, Erdogan strengthens his rule
- In Druze village in the Golan, they learn gender studies from 4th grade
- Movie producer Osnat Treblinski is used to being in the minority // Nirit Anderman
- What is hiding behind the MK Erel Margalit’s video of shouting
- Has the Zionist Enlightenment project come to an end? (Hebrew)
Yedioth Ahronoth
- “They hid it from the cabinet, they erred in the management of the battle” – Severe (State Comptroller) report on Operation Protective Edge
- Tunnel of mistakes // Shimon Shiffer
- Area around Gaza Strip: another tunnel of Hamas was located
- 23,447 fallen – Ahead of Remembrance Day of Fallen
- Donald Netanyahu // Nahum Barnea in Washington
- Storm of the Deputy Chief of Staff’s speech:
- Everyone’s Holocaust // Etgar Keret
- Brave, but mistaken // Yoaz Hendel
- Shortage of medicine – following glitch at Teva factory
- The outstanding teachers
- 32 years after he escaped from Ethiopia, (Yedioth reporter) Danny Adino Ababa took his Israeli-born children to the village of his birth
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)
- “We will stop every attempt at infiltrating”
- The storm on the way: Severe report on the failures of Operation Protective Edge
- Batlle legacy // Ben Caspit
- The tunnel dilemma // Alon Ben-David
- The (Deputy Chief of Staff’s) speech and the reprimand
- Associates of the Republican candidate for President: “Trump is on the way to Israel”
- 23,477 fallen
- First home: Back to the ‘gate of immigration’
- Purity of arms: The battalion commander who replaced Liran Hajabi in a surprising interview
- Land of the settlement outposts: A journey to the radical right-wing, which Netanyahu is sick of
- IDF is calling you: (Author) Marcelle Musri got in uniform and was recruited to reserves
Israel Hayom
- Second tunnel: Cabinet convening
- Associates of Netanyahu and Yaalon on severe draft of “Operation Protective Edge” report: Not a serious report, imprecise, smells of politics”
- In memory of 23,447 fallen
- In the world, they “celebrated” the statements by the Deputy Chief of Staff
- UN Security Council to discuss deploying forces in Judea and Samaria (West Bank)
- Some 10,000 participants in the ‘March of Life’ in Poland: “Nation of Israel lives”
- The high school students’ protest continues: From Sunday – ‘moving strike’ among high schools
- In the footsteps of the fighters: Hikes on the paths of the legacy of the War of Independence
- The moving story of Sara and Eliezar Rosenfeld, who lost two sons
- Ahead of Remembrance Day for the Fallen: Story of heroism of Captain Roey Klein who was killed
News Summary:
**After Haaretz revealed a draft of the severe State Comptroller’s report on failures by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon in conducting Operation Protective Edge, the summer of 2014 war with Gaza, Netanyahu’s associates told reporters that the Comptroller is politicking. Another Gaza tunnel reaching into Israel was exposed after Israel nabbed a Gazan involved
in the tunnel system and within hours the area heated up as Hamas fired into Israel and Israel fired back. (A 60-year-old Palestinian woman was killed in the Israeli shelling, but that was barely mentioned in the Hebrew papers, however Maan reported it raised the tension.) The storm and the dispute over the Holocaust Remembrance Day speech by the Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Yair Golan, said he was frightened by the ‘revolting’ trends in Israeli society which were similar to those of Germany in the ‘30’s, got the support of Defense Minister Yaalon and a got a reprimand from Netanyahu, and meanwhile, the IDF said that Golan didn’t mean what he said. And, the papers began sharing stories ahead of the Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terror. Also, Israel is investigating, after all, the suspicions that government-employed guards illegally killed two Palestinian siblings at Qalandiya checkpoint, a 23-year-old pregnant mother and her 16-year-old brother, whom the police afterward had tried to attack guards. (Also Maariv)
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.