APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday September 30, 2016
NOTE: News Nosh will be off Sunday through Tuesday, October 2-4, for Rosh Hashanah. Happy Jewish New Year!
Quote of the day:
"The two men are diametric opposites. Peres advocated openness and cooperation with the international
community, while Netanyahu favors hunkering down behind the barricades and believes the entire world is against us.
Peres was an optimist and full of self-confidence, while Netanyahu is a pessimist who always sees himself as a
victim. Peres constantly took the initiative, while Netanyahu advocates a policy of 'sit still and do
nothing.'"
--Haaretz's Barak Ravid compares two Israeli leaders, Shimon Peres, who was laid to rest today, and Binyamin Netanyahu, who eulogized him.**
--Haaretz's Barak Ravid compares two Israeli leaders, Shimon Peres, who was laid to rest today, and Binyamin Netanyahu, who eulogized him.**
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Peres’ funeral to be held today in the presence of dozens of leaders of the world
- Amnesty: Sudan systematically using chemical weapons against civilians in Darfur
- “Stop the assimilation”: With state patronage, the effort to Judaize Jaffa expands
- Hollande is crashing and France only has left to decide who will run for president against the radical right wing leader
- Ephraim Halevy: “Israel is facing the greatest crisis in its history”
- The erotica of S. Yizhar, 100 years since his birth
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Parting from Shimon Peres
- “My beloved grandfather” // Peres’ granddaughter, Mika Almog
- MK Merav Ben-Ari on her pregnancy from a homosexual friend
- Daniella Pik speaks for the first time about her boyfriend, Quentin Tarantino
Maariv Weekend
- Shimon Peres - Last honors
- Police made preventative arrests of people who could harm the funeral
- The legacy channel – The many monuments that will be named in the coming years after Shimon Peres will join those that are already exist
- Chief of Staff Eisenkot stands against the infiltration of social divisions into the army // Yossi Melman
- The trial began: Buchris rejects all of the accusations against him
Israel Hayom
- His last journey – Israel and the leaders of the world part from Shimon Peres; Highest alert
- The art of spying – A rare talk with the commander and the fighters of Unit 504, which operates spies in different countries
- Weekend and during holidays – the heat returns big time
News Summary:
It was as if the newspapers were waiting for what would happen after they went to print. Following two days of newspapers filled with stories and commentaries about Shimon Peres, the funeral day arrived and the papers mostly wrote in advance about who was coming, who wasn’t and what enormous traffic jams it would cause.
Among the highest-profile participants were US President Barak Obama and former US president Bill Clinton, who were the only two non-Israelis to give eulogies at the ceremony. The papers noted that the 13 MKs from the mostly Arab ‘Joint List’ faction did not attend the state service and the faction leader, MK Ayman Oudeh Tweeted that “Peres’s memory in the Arab community is different from the narrative that has been spoken about over the past few days and I understand that it is difficult to hear such complicated messages in the moments after his death.” Some Jewish MKs slammed the Arab faction members for their silence and absence.
**Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was one of the few Arabs who did attend, after receiving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s permission to enter Jerusalem. The two shook hands and exchanged brief words at the funeral today. Haaretz’s Barak Ravid wisely noted that in his death, Peres succeeded in doing what he couldn’t do in the last years of his life: bring the two together.
It was as if the newspapers were waiting for what would happen after they went to print. Following two days of newspapers filled with stories and commentaries about Shimon Peres, the funeral day arrived and the papers mostly wrote in advance about who was coming, who wasn’t and what enormous traffic jams it would cause.
Among the highest-profile participants were US President Barak Obama and former US president Bill Clinton, who were the only two non-Israelis to give eulogies at the ceremony. The papers noted that the 13 MKs from the mostly Arab ‘Joint List’ faction did not attend the state service and the faction leader, MK Ayman Oudeh Tweeted that “Peres’s memory in the Arab community is different from the narrative that has been spoken about over the past few days and I understand that it is difficult to hear such complicated messages in the moments after his death.” Some Jewish MKs slammed the Arab faction members for their silence and absence.
**Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was one of the few Arabs who did attend, after receiving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s permission to enter Jerusalem. The two shook hands and exchanged brief words at the funeral today. Haaretz’s Barak Ravid wisely noted that in his death, Peres succeeded in doing what he couldn’t do in the last years of his life: bring the two together.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.