APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 14, 2016
Quote of the day:
“A welcome opportunity to highlight the damage settlements are doing to Israel and the quest for
peace.”
--Americans for Peace Now President and CEO Debra DeLee said why it was important that her organization had been invited to address the UN Security Council special session on settlements.*
--Americans for Peace Now President and CEO Debra DeLee said why it was important that her organization had been invited to address the UN Security Council special session on settlements.*
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Trump’s collapse: Five women claim he attacked and harassed them
- Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan
- 30 years since he fell captive: Israel’s three missed opportunities in the Ron Arad affair
- Six years after committing to evacuate it, state to ask High Court to postpone Amona evacuation again
- Woman refused to pay 500 million shekels so Rabbinical Court released from jail the ‘get’ (divorce) refuser: (“It’s not extortion”)
- Is S. Yizhar still relevant to the Israeli reader?
Yedioth Ahronoth
- 12 women claim: “Trump sexually harassed us”
- The predator // Nahum Barnea
- She’s not taking off // Orly Azoulay
- Dylan’s Nobel
- Director of Government Companies Authority, Uri Yogev, is getting into trouble - People at Mekorot (water) Co. say: He asked us to help him sell a company he owns”; State Comptroller: Open a criminal investigation
- Salute her – (Two years since the combat navigator Tamar Ariel was killed in Nepal, now more religious girls are following in her footsteps and serving in the IDF)
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- UNESCO’s shame
- Finance Minister Kahlon: “If the housing problem is not solved – I’ll go home”
- Come in, come in – From Herzog’s point of view, it might be preferable to enter the Netanyahu gov’t now, with all of the faults and disasters that such an entry entails. On the scale are things that are much more important // Ben Caspit
- Hemingway, Camey, Dylan
- Conflict of interests of the man from the Civil Administration who is responsible for the evacuation of the Bedouin community
- “He was grabbing me like with octopus hands” – Republican nominee for President continues to get into trouble
- “Our world has been destroyed” – Family members and friends part from (Police SWAT team) Command Sergeant Major Yossi Kirmeh, who was killed this week in a chase after a terrorist in Jerusalem
- Crimes on the seamline – A crime story about a small-time criminal teaches us about the chaos in E. Jerusalem: Two law authorities that represent two peoples in conflict, are trying to have a sane civil relationship. Supposedly // Amir Zohar
Israel Hayom
- The delusional UNESCO
- A legacy of hypocrisy // Boaz Bismuth
- The return of anti-Semitism // Haim Shine
- A groundless and false decision // Nadav Shragai
- Surprise: Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan
- “Bennett is trying to take credit for the decision that was made in advance” – State asking to postpone evacuation of Amona (outpost) for 6 months
- Trump denies the accusations against him of sexual harassment: “It’s all an evil lie for the benefit of Clinton”
- After 70 years on the chair: King of Thailand Rama the Ninth died at age 88
- The unprecedented race for the US Presidency – anything can still happen // Boaz Bismuth
News Summary:
**The United Nations was in the headlines in today’s Friday Hebrew newspapers: UNESCO passed a resolution that slammed Israel for its actions at Harram Al-Sharif, the Temple Mount, and did not mention its significance to Jews angering Israel and Americans for Peace Now (APN) and the Israeli human rights NGO, B'Tselem, will address the UN Security Council today at a special session about West Bank settlements.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and some of the Hebrew newspapers distorted the UNESCO resolution that condemned Israel for its actions at Harram Al-Sharif, the Temple Mount, accusing it of saying that the site was holy only to Muslims and claiming that it denied the Jewish connection to the site. Yedioth's Itamar Eichner was among those who reported correctly and he quoted the resolution, which said that the UN "strongly condemns the Israeli escalating aggressions and illegal measures against the Waqf Department and its personnel, and against the freedom of worship and Muslims’ access to their Holy Site Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al Sharif, and requests Israel, the Occupying Power, to respect the historic Status Quo and to immediately stop these measures."
**Today, the UN Security Council will discuss the West Bank settlements. APN president and CEO Debra DeLee said she was proud her organization had been invited to appear at the session, calling it “a welcome opportunity to highlight the damage settlements are doing to Israel and the quest for peace.”
Meanwhile, Israel’s far-right Minister Naftali Bennett of Habayit Hayehudi has pressured Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to ask the High Court for a six-month postponement of the demolition of Amona outpost. And Foreign Ministry Director General Dore Gold resigned, saying for personal reasons. But the newspapers, with the exception of Israel Hayom, reported that it “was directly related to the ministry’s poor status under Netanyahu, who has enjoyed running the ministry but has little respect or trust in the ministry's diplomats.” And not in the Hebrew papers, a Palestinian child was killed by a bullet in Gaza, and Israel denied responsibility.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.