APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday June 17, 2016
You Must Be
Kidding:
"Its very sad that the Prime Minister and the nation are falling for a fake."
--IDF tank expert Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Mas said that the tank Israel received from the Russians is not the tank of the missing Israeli soldiers from the battle at Sultan Yaakub. The Israeli parents are furious.
"Its very sad that the Prime Minister and the nation are falling for a fake."
--IDF tank expert Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Mas said that the tank Israel received from the Russians is not the tank of the missing Israeli soldiers from the battle at Sultan Yaakub. The Israeli parents are furious.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Yaalon and Barak in sharp attack against Netanyahu: He is dividing the nation and taking us to the edge of an abyss
- One after the other, Netanyahu’s defense ministers are coming out against him // Barak Ravid
- Netanyahu intended to invite parents of the Shooting Soldier from Hebron to his home
- “The blackening zone”: State establishing unit to defame supporters of BDS
- Crisis of the church’s lands: Deri’s brother purchased Jerusalem compound, hundreds fear for their homes
- A week till the national referendum, a British MP was murdered
- Single moms go out to work, but remain poor. Now they are starting a campaign
- Police recommend putting Rami Levy on trial for using information from cellular phone customers
- At the Ein Hod artists’ colony, they are battling against the cancellation of the acceptance committee: “We will turn into another neighborhood of villas”
- Lucy Ayub is not willing to settle the contradictions in her identity
- Mimran affair: The money-laundering, the assassinations and the key witness
Yedioth Ahronoth
- The rebellion of the chiefs of staff – Two former chiefs of staff and two former defense ministers made speeches yesterday that were exceptional in their vehemence against the man that they served under (Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu)
- Not just them // Nahum Barnea
- The smell of an explosion // Ben-Dror Yemini
- Raises concern // Sima Kadmon
- Boogie (Yaalon’s) charge // Yoaz Hendel
- Wrong tank – Families of missing soldiers from battle of Sultan Yaakub angry after Netanyahu promised they would get an ‘artifact’ they can touch to remember their sons,’ but the tank that Russia returned was not the tank their sons were in
- The murder that horrified Britain
- He hates Shas? Rami Sadan went out with Deri’s former sister-in-law
- A brave interview: TV personality Asaf Harel says what he thinks regardless of what his boss at Channel 10 and his former boss at Channel 2 think
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)
- The attack of the generals
- The magic is over // Ben Caspit
- It takes one to know one // Caroline Glick
- Maariv poll: Who is preferable to you as prime minister? 40% Netanyahu, 37% Yaalon
- “Elor told me: ‘The terrorist needs to die’” – Commander of Elor Azariya, the Shooting Soldier from Hebron, testified that the terrorist presented no danger
- Grieving in the UK: The murderer shouted, ‘Britain, first,’ and opened fire
- The underground army – This is how the world of crime arms itself with IDF weapons
- Mossad report: (Former Mossad chief) Danny Yatom closes the Khaled Mashaal affair and chases peace
Israel Hayom
- “Yaalon and Barak are outside – and they say the opposite from what they said when they served in their roles”
- This is a declaration of war // Dan Margalit
- Dramatic and irrelevant // Mati Tuchfeld
- They are refusing to recognize the results of the elections // Haim Shine
- Against the background of the national referendum? British MP murdered
- The murder united Britain // Boaz Bismuth
- Police: An evidentiary basis against Rami Levy
- Summer arrived: Lifeguards ended strike; On Monday, high school students go on vacation
- Asael Shabu was critically wounded in the attack in which his mother and siblings were murdered. Now he’s getting married
- How to deal with terror – and with the ‘Legion of Foreigners’ of ISIS // Boaz Bismuth and Prof. Avraham Ben-Zvi
News Summary:
In exceptionally sharp attacks on Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, four former Israeli military leaders, all of whom served under him, separately slammed his leadership Thursday, making the top story in the Hebrew newspapers. Moshe Ya'alon said he plans to run for prime minister in the next election and Ehud Barak hinted he would return to politics, too, and called to topple the government if it doesn’t ‘get back on track.’ And, two former IDF chief of staffs, Benny Gantz and Gabi Ashkenazi, joined a new ‘non-political’ movement that vows to fight against ‘politics of fear.’
Also making headlines in today’s Friday newspapers, the company commander of Sgt. Elor Azariya said Azariya told him that the Palestinian assailant he shot dead “needed to die,” but the commander testified that there was no justification for that. Azariya, commonly referred to as the ‘Shooting Soldier from Hebron,’ shot dead an already shot and neutralized Palestinian assailant. The Israeli pathologist testified that the assailant would have lived had Azariya not shot him in the head. And, Haaretz+ reported that Netanyahu mulled hosting Azariya’s parents at the prime minister’s residence. Azariya is on trial in military court for manslaughter.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.