• Attorney General convening with State Prosecutor and Police in examining suspicions against Netanyahu
• Netanyahu gave Bennett a symbolic payment of 1,500 shekels when he was the head of his campaign – Sara demanded the check back
• The coalition agreement: Lieberman will support all of Netanyahu’s initiatives in the field of communications
• The forced alliance // Yossi Verter
• Attorney General Mandelblit to Prime Minister: (As Communications Minister,) You cannot deal with the issues concerning Bezeq owner, Elovitch
• Couple shot dead; Woman left a battered women’s shelter even though her ex threatened to murder her
• Health Minister advancing food subsidy for people with celiac disease
• In an exceptional move, the US will demand the death sentence for the shooter from Charleston
• Professional update // Haaretz Editorial
• Women’s hygienic products dozens of times more expensive in Israel

• Dying of fatigue – (Medical interns tell of patients who died when they received wrong treatment do to interns’ fatigue)
• Murder known in advance (of battered woman by ex)
• Second chapter – After mutual mudslinging, they began a new path: Netanyahu and Lieberman signed a coalition agreement
• On the right, Yoaz Hendel, on the left, Raanan Shaked – A journey into the Territories marking 50 years since the Six Day War
• What will Elton John sing first tonight?

• Together again
• Big deal // Ben Caspit
• Hello, Elton
• Five orphans as of today after parents murdered
• Suspicion of attack out of nationalist motives: Three Palestinians raped a young woman with mental issues in Tel-Aviv

Israel Hayom

• Back from the battered women’s shelter – and murdered in her home 
• From Monday: Lieberman is Defense Minister
• Suspicion of nationalistic rape “The Palestinians raped and yelled: you deserve it, you Jew”
• Expose: These are the lecturers who support the boycott of the American Anthropological Association
• Bonfires across the country; Hundreds of thousands on Lag B’Omer at Mt. Miron 

Quick Hits:

• Israel strikes in Gaza Strip in response to rocket attack - Air force hits two Hamas sites in coastal territory; none hurt after rocket fired from Gaza hits open area in Israel. (Times of Israel and Ynet)
• 2 Border Policewomen lightly injured from smoke inhalation from Molotov cocktail attack - Soldiers inhaled smoke from fire that broke out after Molotov cocktails were thrown near Ofrit base next to Hebrew University in Jerusalem. (Ynet, Yedioth, p. 16 and Maariv) 
• Israeli forces open fire at farmers, shepherds in southern Gaza - Witnesses said farmers who were tending their fields and shepherds herding sheep on the eastern outskirts of the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis were forced to leave the area after shots were fired, fearing for their lives. (Maan)
• 2 Palestinians suspected [accused] of raping woman with mental issues - Woman says the two—a man in his 20s and a teenager—raped her while she was visiting a relative who lives in the same building; minor's lawyer: 'He claims this is a false complaint derived of a plot by the neighbors to make him leave the building because of his ethnicity.' (Ynet and Maariv)
• Israeli local government resumes funding settler group that released anti-Semitic video - Shomron Regional Council to transfer $195,000 to settler organization that published video depicting Europeans as Nazis and leftists as hook-nosed Jews who collaborate with them. (Haaretz+) 
• Israeli Court Says State Owns Jaffa House Built in 1947 - Tells builder’s grandchildren to buy state out – for about $500,000, which they don't have - or prepare to leave. (Haaretz+)
• Arab teachers? Not in our school – Poll taken by Gordon Academic College of Education in Haifa: 52% of Jewish parents oppose hiring Arab teachers in school classes that have a majority of Jewish students. That number divides between religious Jews and secular: 82% of religious Jews oppose, while 48% of secular Jews think that the Education Ministry should post Arab teachers in classes with a Jewish majority. 41% believe that an Arab teacher is not capable of teaching all the values content (such as Zionism education, Memorial Day or Holocaust Remembrance Day that are taught in the Israeli Education system. Gordon College President, Prof. Yehezkel Teller, said: “The results of the poll are shocking in their severity and illustrate how much the polarization in Israeli society penetrates the education system…If a large number of Jewish parents don’t want Arab teachers to teach their children and demand that the Education Ministry avoid hiring them in a majority Jewish class - this is a black flag that we should not ignore.” Teller believes that “With a joint Jewish Arab education system lacking, it is actually Arab teachers in classes that can become a bridge to real and quality introduction of Jewish children with quality and authoritative representatives of the Arab sector.” (Maariv 24/5 and Walla Hebrew)
• Court orders state to compensate Palestinian family - Nazareth Magistrate's Court rules against state and orders it to pay compensation to family whose son was killed by IDF fire at a checkpoint near Nablus in 2004; an arbitration hearing will determine the amount owed to the family. (Ynet)
• Temple Mount activist Glick sworn in as MK - Yehuda Glick vowed to continue to work in the Knesset to allow Jews to pray at the Temple Mount. (JPost)
• Israel extends detention of 12-year-old Palestinian for 1 year - The Israeli magistrate court extended the detention of 12-year-old Muhammad Ismail for a year on Wednesday. Israel is holding 10 Palestinian children from Jerusalem under the age of 14 in Israeli juvenile facilities and Hushiyeh is the youngest. (Maan) 
• Israel opens pavilion at UN Humanitarian Summit - 'Israel is proud to stand at the forefront of international aid to developing countries and disaster-stricken areas,' says Gil Haskel, an Israeli delegate to the World Humanitarian Summit in Turkey. (JTA, Haaretz)
• Wall-to-wall support for discussion in Knesset: “Allow the opening of state archives regarding the [state] kidnapped Yemenite children" - A query submitted by Meretz chairwoman MK Zehava Gal-On to the Justice Minister on the subject revealed that there was an attempt to advance the process, which is now waiting for the decision of the Prime Minister: "You must deal also with unpleasant things." (Maariv)
• *Israelis’ heartwarming response to shocking police brutality - The brutal police beating of a young Bedouin man outside his Tel Aviv workplace, where he was working to save money for university tuition, leads hundreds of Israelis to pitch in and pay his tuition. (Update: the crowdfunding campaign has reached 200 percent of its original goal.) (+972mag)
• **Police new media chief calls for boycott of store whose employee was beaten by cops - In an image posted on Facebook, a senior official accuses an Israeli Arab supermarket employee of attacking the officers who were filmed beating him in Tel Aviv; police says the post doesn't reflect an official position. (Haaretz) 
• Poll: Did police violence cross a red line in the case of Maysam Abu Al-Kian, the Arab-Israeli supermarket employee beaten by Border Police? Yes: 60%, No: 40%. (Yedioth poll app)
• Knesset officer to Joint List MK: "Avoid entering Al-Aqsa (Temple Mount)” - MK Masud Ghanem informed that he would go to pray at the holy site during Ramadan, a move which contradicts the police commissioner and the Knesset Ethics Committee’s call for MKs not to go. (Maariv) 
• Islamic Jihad: PA arresting operatives in West Bank to 'rein in the intifada' - The Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant movement accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Tuesday of carrying out “politically-motivated” arrest campaigns against its operatives in the occupied West Bank. (Maan) 
• Gaza legislators approve implementation of death sentences - This ratification of the death penalty law paves the way for the execution of at least a dozen Palestinians who have been sentenced to death in the besieged Gaza Strip. (Maan) 
• Int’l Labor Organization report: Peace process vital to Palestinian economy crippled by Israeli occupation - The decades-long military occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the nine-year blockade on the Gaza Strip continues to constrict the Palestinian economy, according to a new report  by the ILO. Unemployment was at 25.9 percent in 2015. (Maan) 
• Gaza security forces detain 2 hunger strikers protesting unemployment - Raed Nasr and Said Lolo, who have been on hunger strike for around a month, were arrested on Sunday night in Gaza City, said Nasr’s father Ayman Nasr. (Maan) 
• Zionist Union, Yesh Atid Okayed or Abstained From Bills Seen by Palestinians as Racist - 'Apart from the Joint List and Meretz MKs, almost 90 percent of the other factions' members voted on at least one bill seen by the Palestinians as racist or discriminatory,' says Madar research institute. (Haaretz+)
• Watchdog: Dimona nuclear reactor gave millions in business to ex-employee without a tender - Sale was done despite objections of internal comptroller and legal consultant. Comptroller’s report was kept hidden for three years for reasons of ‘national security’ and allowed for publication following Haaretz petition. (Haaretz+)
• Zionist Union MK: Weinstein appointed to cover for Netanyahu - Yoel Hasson accuses former attorney general of 'obstructing the state comptroller's work' by failing to address the questions raised over the prime minister's travels. (Ynet) 
• NGO appeals Israeli minister's decision to halt return of withheld Palestinian bodies - Addameer, a Palestinian prisoners’ rights group, appealed Israeli public prosecution to overturn Israeli minister’s decision to halt return of Palestinian bodies, and called for Israel to act in accordance with Israeli Supreme Court ruling. Israel currently holds the bodies of at least a dozen Palestinians, including six Jerusalemites, killed by Israeli forces since October while they were allegedly committing or attempting to commit attacks. (Maan)  
• Haifa ammonia tank not a 'ticking bomb' during war, says National Security Council - The city's mayor calls this assessment 'sickening' and wants the tank moved to the less populated Negev region. (Haaretz+) 
• Central Bank Chief Warns About Dim Economic Future for Israel - Karnit Flug says the government must spend more on education and health. (Haaretz+) 
• Knesset Ceremony Honors U.S. Jews' Contributions to Israel - For first time, Israeli officials meet to praise efforts by American Jews, organizations to help create and maintain the state of Israel. (JTA, Haaretz) 
• Air Force considers allowing female pilots to fly during maternity leave - Following a request made by a mother currently serving as a pilot, the Air Force has been looking into allowing mothers to fly during their maternity leave; the initiative was promoted by MK Tamar Zandberg, who referred to the possible policy change as 'progressive.' (Ynet) 
• Saving the Dead Sea Scrolls from looters, hundreds flock to desert caves - Antiquities thieves have been stealing a wealth of artifacts dating to the third century BCE in Qumran; to save these artifacts, excavations involving 500 volunteers are digging to find and preserve what's left. (Ynet and Israel Hayom)
• Haaretz Columnist Wins Excellence in Journalism Award - The B'nai B'rith World Center Award is the most prestigious prize in its field in Israel and was awarded to Haaretz columnist Allison Kaplan Sommer. (Haaretz+)
• Egypt Deports French Journalist Amid Media Crackdown - Reporter Remy Pigaglio detained without explanation for 30 hours at Cairo Airport is latest incident in ongoing crackdown on freedom of expression, media. (Agencies, Haaretz)
• 41 killed in clashes, attacks across Egypt's Sinai Peninsula - Egyptian military sources said 30 militants were killed in clashes with the army south of Sheikh Zuweid in the North Sinai governate. And south of Rafah, Egyptian security officials said Sinai Province militants booby-trapped a Bedouin civilian’s vehicle, killing him, because “he cooperated with the Egyptian army.” (Maan)
• As Iraqi Forces Battle to Retake Fajulla From ISIS, Shi’ite Cleric Appeals for Restraint - Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's appeal reflects concerns that a large civilian death toll in the fight to take back the ISIS held city of Falluja could intensify sectarian tensions. (Agencies, Haaretz)

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Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.