News Nosh 05.27.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday May 27, 2016

Breaking News: 
Environmental Affairs Minister Avi Gabbay resigned from cabinet in protest of the appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as defense minister.

 
Quote of the day:
"A defense minister in a country surrounded by enemies isn't just another minister. He is the most important minister...The removal of a professional and reasonable defense minister who in a year managed to calm the uprising is a step I couldn't make peace with."
--Environmental Affairs Minister Avi Gabbay said at a press conference today after resigning.


Front Page:
Haaretz
  • Bibi Tours affair: Mandelblit getting close to decision
  • We must not give up // Ari Shavit
  • The cabinet secretary who became Attorney General is being tested // Amir Oren
  • In the meantime, the Opposition disappeared // Yossi Verter
  • The police received a recommendation to look into the large amounts of material in the affair, but responded with reservations
  • Advisors of former attorney general (Weinstein) let Netanyahu off the hook // Sharon Pulwer
  • At the shelter where the murdered woman from Rishon L’tsiyon stayed, the women wonder why they are locked up and not the men
  • The police recommends putting (actor) Moshe  on trial for sex crimes
  • Social media networks instead of supermarkets
  • Why is Lieberman’s appointment news for Gaza, for the right-wing, for the left-wing and for the center // Guy Rolnik
  • Some 100 teenagers commit suicide every year in Israel. How do we fight this?
  • I was a prisoner, and suddenly, from the next-door cage, Adnan called me
Yedioth Ahronoth
  • Recruiting support: Lieberman met with the reserve generals
  • The degree of ugliness // Nahum Barnea
  • Military decree of depression // Sima Kadmon
  • Sephardic prime minister // Meir Shalev
  • From Elton with love
  • This is how we dug the tunnels
  • “Nationalist rape”: Hunt for a suspect

Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)

  • MK Lieberman: “I will be a responsible defense minister”
  • The plague to the state // Kalman Libskind
  • Assassination operation // Ben Caspit
  • The Psychological war // Yossi Melman
  • Fire in the capital (from Lag B’Omer bonfires)
  • The teeth of (State Comptroller) Yosef Shapira and the new political life of Orly Levy-Abeksis
  • “Evidential basis against Ivgi”
  • Sir (Elton) John’s stage
  • “I am following you, get out of there” – wrote murdered woman’s ex to her
  • All the truth in your face // Shai Hai, star of ‘Big Brother’ reality show in a personal and weekly column
  • A position with obligations – Must right-wing leaders dump their ideology the moment they reach the seat of the prime minister // Prof. Aryeh Eldad
  • Price of holiday – why is it so expensive to take holidays in Israel? And why doesn’t it appear that will change?
  • From the Temple Mount to the Knesset: The gospel according to Yehuda Glick // Karni Eldad
  • The march to Washington: The awful statements by Donald Trump
  • Special project: 20 years since the rise of Netanyahu. Good or bad for the Jews?
Israel Hayom
  • Hypocrisy to the skies: Tsipi Livni – at the top of the list of MKs who fly (abroad)
  • They criticized Netanyahu – and rushed to the airport // Mati Tuchfeld
  • Police recommend: put Moshe Ivgi on trial
  • Elton John
  • Trump’s victory
  • So what? Trump can win – despite the commentators? // Boaz Bismuth
  • Fire near the capital
  • Starting next year: 6 long weekends

 
News Summary:
Israeli commentators focused on examining implications of the allegations of criminal conduct by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the ‘Bibitours’ affair and of MK Avigdor Lieberman’s appointment as defense minister in Friday’s Hebrew newspapers. But aside from Elton John's 'outstanding' performance last night in Tel-Aviv, the news focused on crimes: the fears of a woman before she was murdered, likely by her ex, and how her mother and two small children have been hidden by police as they search for the murderer, the search for another Palestinian suspect in the alleged 'nationalistically motivated' rape of a mentally ill Israeli woman in Tel-Aviv and the recommendation by police to put famous Israeli actor, Moshe Ivgy, on trial for sex crimes.
 
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.