APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday February 22, 2016
Quote of the day:
"If the elections really do take place and are held successfully...the second and even more significant element
is that Hamas will win renewed legitimacy as a political player in the West Bank. And that hasn’t been the case
since June 2007."
- Khalil Shikaki, Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Hundreds of Yemenite children were abducted in state's early years, says Israeli cabinet minister, contradicting state commission
- Troops thwart Palestinian attack near Nablus, IDF says
- Beating ISIS requires an end to the Israeli occupation, Abbas tells Kerry in Paris meeting
Israel Hayom
- Amid terror fears, France may ban foreign funding for mosques
- Chinese group buys Israeli game developer for $4.4 billion
- 'Lies about cabinet's failures during Gaza op aim to hurt PM'
The Times of Israel
- IDF looks to a 'one-network' army to fight future wars
- Palestinian tries to stab soldiers in West Bank, is shot dead
- Its pockets lined with Qatari-paid wages, Hamas is on the rise
Ynet News
- IDF revokes exemptions of 4,000 yeshiva students found to lead secular lifestyles
- Family raising funds to memorialize slain girl
- Government approves round of new ministers
News Summary:
US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris on Saturday and affirmed the US's commitment to the restarting the peace process in the remaining months of the Obama Administration.
The Israeli government approves a round of new ministers appointing former Deputy Minister (PM's office) MK Yaron Mazuz as Deputy Environmental Protection Minister, transferring authorities relating to work and employment from the Economy Ministry to Welfare Minister Haim Katz, and transferring a depleted Economy Ministry to Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon.
The IDF's use of network technology is in the news as it revokes exemptions of 4,000 yeshiva students found on social media to lead secular lifestyles and invests in the Network Centric IDF Program (NCIP), to create a joint communications platform for all the various arms of the military, a 'one network army.'
Quick Hits:
- Two dead, 16 hurt in car-ramming at brawl in Bedouin town - this was as a result of a dispute between a local Bedouin family and another unregistered Bedouin community in the Negev. (The Times of Israel)
- Mobileye to end cooperation with Tesla - Israeli company Mobileye said it would not extend collaboration beyond the 3rd business quarter. Mobileye provides the processor Tesla uses in its cars to provide image analysis intelligence. (Globes)
- A pro-Hezbollah media outlet, Al-Mayadeen, has reported new details into the planning of the 2006 kidnapping of Israeli soldiers that sparked the Second Lebanon War. According to the report, aired on Saturday marking the ten-year anniversary to the Second Lebanon War, Imad Mughniyeh - the head of Hezbollah's military operations at the time, who was later killed in an assassination attributed in foreign media to Israel - was directly involved in planning and launching the operation. The kidnapping reportedly followed a number of failed attempts.The last of these was in November 21, 2005, about eight months before Udi Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were abducted. (Haaretz)
- Uri Bar-Joseph's "The Angel: The Egyptian Spy who Saved Israel" is the #1 new "hot new-release" in Amazon's category of Israel and Palestine History. The book exposes the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian Senior Official who spied for Israel. As the son-in-law of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and a close advisor to his successor, Anwar Sadat, Ashraf Marwan had access to the deepest secrets of the country’s government. The book offers new insight into the turbulent modern history of the Middle East. (Amazon)