APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 28, 2016
Quote of the day:
“Yes, Arabs have rights too. We have clear criteria. I ask that we stick to them.”
--MK Miki Rosenthal (Zionist Camp) opposes an attempt to legislate law that that would prevent tax-deductible donations from organizations that "act against Israel." The bill is aimed at Amnesty International.**
--MK Miki Rosenthal (Zionist Camp) opposes an attempt to legislate law that that would prevent tax-deductible donations from organizations that "act against Israel." The bill is aimed at Amnesty International.**
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Isolation of Abbas grows; IDF established team to prepare for his collapse in the West Bank
- Cabinet secretly approved construction for Palestinians in Area C
- Haaretz investigation: Real estate entrepreneur raised funds for Rishon L’Tsion mayor, spent time with him abroad – and received extensive (permits for) building
- Special reports from Iraq – The battle for Mosul will be a blood bath; What we understood when we entered the ISIS tunnels in the villages
- American journalist: Ari Shavit touched me and tried to forcibly kiss me; Shavit: I deeply apologize
- 11days to the elections, what stands behind the large gaps in the polls
- Tomorrow night Israel moves to winter clock
- How did what happen happen? 60 years to the Kfar Kassem Massacre
Yedioth Ahronoth
- The First Women – Yedioth correspondent Orly Azoulay reports from the rally of the two strongest women of the Democratic party
- Losing battle in Ohio // Nahum Barnea
- “We will oppose the closing of the (new) public broadcasting corporation” – Finance Minister Kahlon
- The journalist from the sexual harassment affair: Ari Shavit
- Forecast: Rainy week
- From tomorrow: move to winter clock
- Spies among us
- Lucy (Aharish) is angry – “I can’t bring an Arab girl to my home” (someone tells her) – Lucy Aharish doesn’t hold back in interview
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- The female power (Photo of Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama at rally)
- Trump’s big bang // Michael Kleiner
- Not standard // Udi Segal
- Ari Shavit on the claim that he sexually harassed a foreign journalist: “I misconstrued the interaction between us. I apologize from the bottom of my heart”
- Winter is here
- War diary from Mosul
- The Jewish voice – Siamak Moreh Sedgh, the only Jewish parliamentarian in Iran: “Iran is not interested in opening war against Israeli, it knows that would be suicide”
- The US Secretary of the Treasury arrived by surprise for a series of meetings in Israel
- The public broadcasting corporation is waiting for (Finance Minister) Kahlon
- Gandi’s opponents: The truth about the Palmach Operation to breakthrough to Jerusalem // Dr. Uri Milstein
- Moving to attack: Dr. Anat Berko shuts the mouths of all critics
Israel Hayom
- (US elections) The gap is narrowing, everything is still open
- “The (public broadcasting) corporation was kidnapped by people with a left-wing agenda” – Coalition chairman David Bitan
- Rain is coming down
- Journalist Ari Shavit: “I admit, I am sorry”
- After 6 years: Indictment against Harpaz
- The last kilometer in the race for the presidency // Boaz Bismuth
News Summary:
The fate of Israel's yet-to-begin-broadcasting public broadcasting corporation, which Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is trying to shut down, but Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon said won't, the apology by renowned Haaretz journalist Ari Shavit, who groped a young Jewish American journalist during an interview, "but didn't think for a moment that it was sexual harassment," the battle in Mosul, from where some Israeli correspondents are reporting, and the US election campaign and the gap in the polls were today's top stories in the Friday Hebrew newspapers.
**Also in the news, experts say that the ancient papyrus that Israel exhibited as proof of the Jews' ancient connections to Jerusalem, in the wake of the UNESCO resolution, was likely a fake. And, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is promoting expedited legislation under which only charitable organizations that work to promote the welfare of Israelis and that "do not act against Israel" internationally would be eligible to receive tax-deductible donations. She hopes that will prevent Amnesty International from getting tax deductible donations.
The fate of Israel's yet-to-begin-broadcasting public broadcasting corporation, which Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is trying to shut down, but Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon said won't, the apology by renowned Haaretz journalist Ari Shavit, who groped a young Jewish American journalist during an interview, "but didn't think for a moment that it was sexual harassment," the battle in Mosul, from where some Israeli correspondents are reporting, and the US election campaign and the gap in the polls were today's top stories in the Friday Hebrew newspapers.
**Also in the news, experts say that the ancient papyrus that Israel exhibited as proof of the Jews' ancient connections to Jerusalem, in the wake of the UNESCO resolution, was likely a fake. And, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is promoting expedited legislation under which only charitable organizations that work to promote the welfare of Israelis and that "do not act against Israel" internationally would be eligible to receive tax-deductible donations. She hopes that will prevent Amnesty International from getting tax deductible donations.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.