APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday July 15, 2016
Quote of the day:
“We are creating generations of hate on both sides that will only make the situation worse. If we don’t
stop it, we must oppose it.”
--Conscientious objector, Tair Kaminer, 19, whom the IDF decided to release from compulsory military service after she sat 150 days in prison.**
--Conscientious objector, Tair Kaminer, 19, whom the IDF decided to release from compulsory military service after she sat 150 days in prison.**
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Israel tightens siege on Gaza: revokes permits from a third of the businessmen
- Kerry was impressed with Netanyahu’s attitude during their meeting in Rome, and rushed to call Herzog and Livni // Barak Ravid
- Netanyahu’s fundraiser was interrogated for 15 hours; other associates will also be interrogated
- The case of Tair Kaminer // David Grossman
- Instead of a gay pride parade, 1,500 people protested in Beersheva
- Look in the faces of the [Palestinian] victims of the non-lethal weapon
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Netanyahu’s fundraiser was interrogated for 15 hours and sent to house arrest
- 60 killed in France – Car ramming attack on French Riviera
- The anger and the pride (Demonstration held after Beersheva Gay Pride Parade cancelled)
- The revolution has begun // Orna Oshri
- Erez (Biton) checkpoint (about Mizrachi Jews):
- The ghost and the duck // Nahum Barnea
- The white panthers // Maor Zagori
- The color blind // Shai Piron and Shimon Azulay
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- Netanyahu’s fundraiser - to house arrest
- IDF against Pokemon
- (Beersheva protest against cancellation of gay pride parade)
- The Rabbi (Eyal) Karim storm:
- The uniform is what determines // Ben Caspit
- Not really liberals // Kalman Libskind
- Military lesson // Avi Benayahu
- No arbiter // Alon Ben-David
- Torah law to practice // Udi Segal
- Kiryat Malachi is loyal –Moshe Katsav’s hometown is preparing for his release from prison
- Five years later: What was the big miss of the social justice protest
Israel Hayom
- France: At least 70 killed in horrific car-ramming attack on Bastille Day
- Ari Harow interrogated for many hours – and released to house arrest
- “Trump chose the governor of Indiana as his candidate for vice-president”
- 1,500 people demonstrated in protest of the cancelling of the gay pride parade in Beersheva: “Our blood is worthless”
- On Sunday, gov’t expected to approve two-year budget for 2017-2018
- Erez Biton disappointed by the reactions to his report (on teaching Mizrachi heritage), by the media and of course by Ashkenazim
- A real hero – Shuki Gilboa, who lost an eye in the attack in which Hallel, 13, was murdered, returns to the moments he faced the terrorist
News Summary:
Netanyahu’s fundraiser and former chief of staff, Ari Harow, was detained at the airport and interrogated for 14 hours then put under house arrest making the top story in today’s Friday Hebrew newspapers.
Also in the news: after a controversial and surprising decision by the High Court to prohibit the Beersheva gay pride parade from the city’s main street at the police’s
request to protect participants from violence by homophobes and in order not to hurt religious
sentiments. Some 1,500-2,000 people held a protest instead. Dozens clashed with police.
*Also in the news, one Israeli teenager, who refused to serve in an occupying army, was released from the army and soon from prison and three Israeli teens were detained for torching cars of Arabs. Only Haaretz+ put the story of 19-year-old Tair Kaminer on the front page - in a piece by internationally acclaimed author and Israeli moral compass, David Grossman. The IDF decided to release Kaminer from service after she spent a record-breaking 150 days in prison for refusing to serve for reasons of conscience. (Also Times of Israel and Maariv) Meanwhile, three teens, two of them from northern Israel and one a settler, were detained by police, which suspects them of carrying out an attack on cars in an Arab town outside Nazareth inside Israel. [Interestingly, the newspapers all noted in their headlines that the attack was out of ‘revenge,’ whereas Palestinians attacks never get that explanation in the headlines. At most, it is buried in the article and presented as a quote from the attacker at his trial. (Also Maariv.)
*Also in the news, one Israeli teenager, who refused to serve in an occupying army, was released from the army and soon from prison and three Israeli teens were detained for torching cars of Arabs. Only Haaretz+ put the story of 19-year-old Tair Kaminer on the front page - in a piece by internationally acclaimed author and Israeli moral compass, David Grossman. The IDF decided to release Kaminer from service after she spent a record-breaking 150 days in prison for refusing to serve for reasons of conscience. (Also Times of Israel and Maariv) Meanwhile, three teens, two of them from northern Israel and one a settler, were detained by police, which suspects them of carrying out an attack on cars in an Arab town outside Nazareth inside Israel. [Interestingly, the newspapers all noted in their headlines that the attack was out of ‘revenge,’ whereas Palestinians attacks never get that explanation in the headlines. At most, it is buried in the article and presented as a quote from the attacker at his trial. (Also Maariv.)
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.