APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday July 01, 2016
Quotes of the day:
"I am standing here, in my hurting heart, and I turn to you, Muslim Arab mother, who sent her son to
stab. I educated my daughter to love, and you...Muslim Arabs educated to hate."
--Rina Ariel, mother of Hillel Yafe, 13, who was stabbed to death yesterday morning by Mohammed Tarayreh, 17.
"When I heard someone had gotten into Kiryat Arba and committed a terror attack there, I didn't even think it could be my son."
--Mother of Mohammed Tarayreh, the teen who stabbed to death a 13-year-old Israeli girl in her home in Kirya Arba settlement.
"The moment I heard the shouts I understood something irregular was happening. I ran in the direction of the crowd and saw the terrorist with a knife. I strove to reach him and began wrestling with him."
--Farhan Malek, the Muslim Arab-Israeli Netanya Municipality employee who was the only one to physically fight Wael Abu-Saleh, the Palestinian who stabbed two Israelis yesterday evening in Netanya.
--Rina Ariel, mother of Hillel Yafe, 13, who was stabbed to death yesterday morning by Mohammed Tarayreh, 17.
"When I heard someone had gotten into Kiryat Arba and committed a terror attack there, I didn't even think it could be my son."
--Mother of Mohammed Tarayreh, the teen who stabbed to death a 13-year-old Israeli girl in her home in Kirya Arba settlement.
"The moment I heard the shouts I understood something irregular was happening. I ran in the direction of the crowd and saw the terrorist with a knife. I strove to reach him and began wrestling with him."
--Farhan Malek, the Muslim Arab-Israeli Netanya Municipality employee who was the only one to physically fight Wael Abu-Saleh, the Palestinian who stabbed two Israelis yesterday evening in Netanya.
Breaking News:
Initial Report: Attempted Stabbing Attack in Hebron; Assailant Shot and Killed
Palestinian woman reportedly drew out knife at a security checkpoint; no Israeli Military Police officers present wounded. (Haaretz, Maan, Ynet and JPost)
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Terrorist entered home in Kiryat Arba and stabbed a 13-year-old to death
- Senior Israeli official: Hamas chose strategy of delaying negotiations over the missing bodies in Gaza
- The reconciliation that concerns the Turks has no connection to Israel // Yariv Kobovitz in Istanbul
- Interior Ministry ruled: From 2017, every citizen must be registered in biometric database
- 40 years since the Entebbe Operation – the account the Netanyahu family would rather not hear
- (Marwan) Barghouti is sitting in Hadarim Prison and waiting for the day after Abu Mazen // Gidi Weitz and Jacky Khougi
- ¼ page ad: Join a tour in the center of the West Bank- we will meet Palestinians continuing to believe in peace and we will hear about their lives and thoughts. www.machsomwatch.org
Yedioth Ahronoth
- “Goodbye, my princess” – Hillel, 13, was murdered in her sleep
- Between darkness and light // Yehuda Ben-Yishai, father of Ruth Fogel (RIP)
- There is no magic solution // Yossi Yehoshua
- Netanya: Woman injured in attack day before her daughter’s wedding
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- Terror in the children’s room
- “How does one eulogize a flower” – Rena Ariel, mother of Hillel Yafa Ariel, 13.5, who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian Thursday
- The aid package – Special coverage of the joint interests that led to the reconciliation agreement between Israel and Turkey
- Why weren’t business people included in the Prime Minister’s flight to Africa?
- Suspicion: Senior official in a security company sexually harassed a member of a British political party
- Attorney General ruled: Investigation against Silvan Shalom – closed
Israel Hayom
- “Goodbye my princess”
- “He had murder in his eyes”: Golan and Shimon neutralized the terrorist in the Netanya market
- Attorney General ruled: Investigation against Silvan Shalom - closed
- (MK Haneen) Zouebi storm: Wild incitement that united the public against her // Haim Shine and Mati Tuchfeld
News Summary:
A Palestinian teen stabbed to death an Israeli teen in her bed in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, killing her before being shot dead and a middle-aged Palestinian was shot dead after stabbing two Israelis in Netanya making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
The papers bereaved the murder of 13-year-old Hillel Yaffe Ariel, also a US citizen, who was stabbed while sleeping by Mohammad Tarayra, 17, from the nearby Palestinian village of Bani Na'im. The Israeli civil guard who arrived first at the scene was stabbed in the face before being shot dead and then the guard was mistakenly shot and injured by other guards who arrived. Tarayra’s mother said that her son’s Facebook posts had changed since March when his cousin was killed after carrying out a car ramming attack near Kiryat Arba, in which an IDF soldier was lightly wounded, but that she never believed her son would carry out an attack. Tarayra’s sister said her brother died a martyr.
In the evening, a Palestinian, Wael Abu Salih, 46, from Shweikeh village near Tulkarem, ran through Netanya and stabbed two Israelis, one a 62-year-old woman. Oddly, the newspapers did not emphasize the fact that the person who ran up to him to stop him and physically wrestled with him was an Arab-Israeli municipality worker, Farhan Malek, who had seen the attacker running with a knife. The owner of an ultra-Orthodox supermarket chain, Golan Yosfan, and his friend arrived at the scene and Yosfan shot the attacker dead from short range. The papers all wrote that Yosfan was a hero. Only Yedioth and Ynet Hebrew wrote about Farhan, naming him a 'hero,' too. The Israeli police, Shin Bet and Netanya Municipality lauded all three of them. (Maariv)
In diplomacy, the Mideast Quartet is expected to release today it’s much anticipated report and the Palestinians were not pleased with the copy the received, saying that if it casts blame on both sides, as expected, the Palestinians could cut off ties with Quartet.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.